In this volume of the Woolf Studies Annual, Jane Goldman reveals submerged suffrage history in The Waves, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra explains how Roger Fry is an apologia for Bloomsbury, and Janet Winston examines the multiple discourses of imperialism in To the Lighthouse. Karen L. Levenback explores Woolf’s embodiment of the post-war experience of combatants in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years, Tracy Seeley finds in a short story Woolf’s autobiographical experience of private and public space, and Barbara Apstein traces Woolf’s reading of Chaucer in the drafts and published text of Between the Acts. A new Comment section includes Jill Morstad’s juxtaposition of Woolf’s feminist polemics with the politics of examining graduate students, Nicholas Midgley’s uncomfortable posing of Woolf’s question ‘why teach English?’, and Brenda Silvers’ thoughts on the movie Tom & Viv. Woolf Studies Annual, Volume II also includes a revised and up-to-date Guide to Collections and reviews of several new books on Woolf, Bloomsbury, and related matters. Contents: Purple Buttons on Her Bodice : Feminist History and Iconography in The Waves, Jane Goldman; Virginia Woolf’s Roger Fry: A Bloomsbury Memorial, Lorrain Janzen Kooistra; Something Out of Harmony : To the Lighthouse and the Subject(s) of Empire, Janet Winston; Virginia Woolf and Returning Soldiers: The Great War and Reality of Survival in Mrs. Dalloway and The Years, Karen L. Levenback; Virginia Woolf’s Poetics of Space: The Lady in the Looking Glass: A Reflection , Tracy Seeley; Chaucer, Virginia Woolf, and Between the Acts, Barbara Apstein.; COMMENTS: Woolf Whistles, Cat Calls and Other Figures, Jill Morstad; Virginia Woolf and the University, Nicholas Midgley; Tom & Viv & Vita & Virginia & Ottoline & Edith…, Brenda R. Silver; Guide to Library Special Collections; REVIEWS: Virginia Woolf and Samuel Johnson: Common Readers by Beth Carole Rosenberg, Michael Chappel
