Fromm savagely attacks her forerunners, and then slips into a much more restrictive reading. Fromm wants The Years to be read completely on its own terms all very well until Fromm reveals her re-conception, which is that The Years is Woolf’s rebuttal to Rose Macaulay. Fromm, who also pinpointed these difficulties with critics who can only conceive of the omissions negatively. 147.Īnother attempt at a re-conceptualization of the Pargiter/Years dilemma was made by Gloria G. Grace Radin, Virginia Woolfߣ s The Years: The Evolution of a Novel (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981), p. Hoffmann, ‘Virginia Woolf’s Manuscript Revisions of The Years’, PMLA 84 (1969), p. George Bornstein (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1991), p. Silver, ‘Textual Criticism as Feminist Practice: Or, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf Part II’, Representing Modernist Texts: Editing as Interpretation, ed. Beth Carole Rosenberg and Jeanne Dubino (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1997), p. Jeanne Dubino, ‘Virginia Woolf: From Book Reviewer to Literary Critic, 1904–1918’, Virginia Woolf and The Essay, ed. Jane Marcus (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1987). See Louise De Salvo, ‘As “Miss Jan Says”: Virginia Woolf’sEarly Journals’, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury: A Centenary Celebration, ed. Shari Benstock (London: Routledge, 1988), p. Nancy Walker, ‘“Wider Than the Sky”: Public Presence and Private Self in Dickinson, James, and Woolf, The Private Self: Theory and Practice of Women’s Autobiographical Writings, ed. Linda Anderson, Women and Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall, 1997), pp.

Judy Simons, Diaries and Journals of Literary Women from Fanny Burney to Virginia Woolf (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1990), p.

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