Publication Details

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.

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"[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.