Title
Woolf Online
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-5-2013
Abstract
The site is intended to serve as a resource for research and study of Woolf's modernist classic. On this site you will find images and transcriptions of the holograph drafts (in three notebooks housed in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library), the typescripts, the proofs, and various early editions of the novel, including the first British and American editions and their variants. Also included is a wealth of contextual materials, such as diary entries and letters pertaining to the novel, early reviews of the novel, selected essays Woolf wrote during the two- year period during which she worked on To the Lighthouse, and photographs of the Stephen family, Cornwall, and Talland House, all of which inform the setting and characters of the novel. Because the three notebooks housed in the Berg Collection are fragile and access to them is now severely limited, Woolf Online performs an especially valuable service by making these drafts available to scholars, students and the public at large in brilliant images, easily legible with the aid of a magnifying feature and easily readable with transcriptions that overlay images of the originals. Users of this site can page through Woolf's handwritten drafts from cover to cover as if they were in the Berg reading room. Even the verso pages, where Woolf sometimes calculated how many words she had written so far, have been included here.
Recommended Citation
Caughie, Pamela L., Hayward, Nicholas J., Hussey, Mark., Shillingsburg, Peter L., and Thiruvathukal, George. K., eds, Woolf Online. Web. http://www.woolfonline.com.
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Comments
Portions of this site have been peer-reviewed as well as the technical platform of the project (Mojulem). Peer review is ongoing and expected to be completed in 2015.