The Drafts of Virginia Woolf's "The Searchlight"
1976; Duke University Press; Volume: 22; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/440581
ISSN2325-8101
Autores Tópico(s)Poetry Analysis and Criticism
ResumoIn his Foreword to A Haunted House and Other Stories, Leonard Woolf describes Virginia Woolf's custom of writing a rough sketch of an idea for a story or essay, putting it away, and then, possibly years later, taking it out and rewriting it for publication, sometimes a great many times.' It is scarcely surprising, therefore, to find in the Monk's House Papers twelve typescript drafts of The Searchlight, as well as fragments of other drafts; nor to discover a thirteenth draft in the Berg Collection; nor to discover that at least two of them, and probably three, were written as early as 1929-30, whereas the rest were written after the start of the Second World War. But it
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