Some of the essays are now published for the first time; others have appeared in The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, the New Statesman and Nation, Time and Tide, the New York Saturday Review, New Writing. I have included two essays with the same title, Royalty; the first was commissioned, but, for obvious reasons, not published by Picture Post; the second was published in Time and Tide. A selection of twenty-nine essays. ‘[Woolf’s] essays…are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure…. Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating…. Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on’ (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
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