Stuart N. Clarke rediscovered the sixth essay in 1980, and it is listed in the third edition of B. J. Kirkpatrick’s A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf (1980). Frank Hallman collected and published the first five in 1975 with the title The London Scene, the magazine’s headline for the second and third articles. Reynier sketches the publication history of these “Six Articles on London Life” ( Essays 5.280n1).
The commission earned Woolf £300 (some £18,000 today) less 15% for her agent-a modest sum compared to the £2000 for a life of Boswell that she had declined the year before.
The magazine was ‘born with modernism’ in 1922, as servants were escaping private houses into the public workforce (5). Meticulously edited and annotated by Andrew McNeillie and Stuart N. Clarke to chart each essay’s chronological position in Woolf’s oeuvre as well as its publication history, contexts, versions, and allusions, the complete Essays establishes Woolf’s claim to a prominent place among English essayists and invites the vigorous, many-faceted scholarly and critical attention that her fiction, diary, letters, memoirs, and book-length essays have long sustained.Ģ In Virginia Woolf’s Good Housekeeping Essays, Christine Reynier homes in on the six short essays that Woolf published in the British magazine Good Housekeeping from December 1931 to December 1932. 1 The sixth and last volume of The Essays of Virginia Woolf appeared in 2009, enabling readers to explore this prodigious body of work with ease.
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