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Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries (Clemson University Press
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Table of Contents

Julie Vandivere and Megan Hicks - Introduction
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Who Are Virginia Woolf’s Female Contemporaries?
Mary Jean Corbett - Considering Contemporaneity: Woolf and “the Maternal Generation”
Mary Wilson - Who Is My Contemporary?: Woolf, Mansfield, and Their Servants
Catherine W. Hollis - “The World is My Country”: Emma Goldman among the Avant-Garde
Kristin Bluemel - “Definite, Burly, and Industrious”: Virginia Woolf and Gwen Darwin Raverat
Jeffrey M. Brown - “A Verbal Life on the Lips of the Living”: Virginia Woolf, Ellen Terry, and the Victorian Contemporary
Elisa Kay Sparks - Twists of the Lily: Floral Ambivalence in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe

Virginia Woolf’s Cultural Contexts
Nicola Wilson - Virginia Woolf and the Book Society Limited
Alyssa Mackenzie - The Outsider as Editor: Three Guineas and the Feminist Periodical
Eleanor McNees - Woolf’s Imperialist Cousins: Missionary Vocations of Dorothea and Rosamond Stephen
Beth Rigel Daugherty - Mary Sheepshanks, Virginia Stephen, and Morley College: Learning to Teach, Learning to Write
Leslie Kathleen Hankins - Moving Picture This: Virginia Woolf in the British Good Housekeeping!? or Moving Picture This: Woolf’s London Essays and the Cinema
Sarah Cornish - “Quota Quickies Threaten Audience Intelligence Levels!”: The Power of the Screen in Virginia Woolf’s “The Cinema” and “Middlebrow” and Betty Miller’s Farewell Leicester Square

Virginia Woolf’s Contemporaries Abroad
Patrizia A. Muscogiuri - Reconfiguring the Mermaid: H.D., Virginia Woolf, and the Radical Ethics of Writing as Marine Practice
Jessica Kim - A Carnival of the Grotesque: Feminine Imperial Flânerie in Virginia Woolf’s “Street Haunting” and Una Marson’s“Little Brown Girl”
Kimberley Engdahl Coates - Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman
Lois Gilmore - Shop My Closet: Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, and Fashion Contemporaries
Maria Aparecida de Oliveira - Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo: A Brazilian Perspective
Joyce E. Kelley - Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf
Urvashi Vashist - Critical Characters in Search of an Author: Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
Kristin Czarnecki - “In my mind I saw my mother”: Virginia Woolf, Zitkala-Ša, and Autobiography

Virginia Woolf’s Contemporaries at Home
Gill Lowe - “The Squeak of a Hinge”: Hinging and Swinging in Woolf and Mansfield
Kate Haffey - “People must marry”: Queer Temporality in Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield
Emily Rials - The Weight of “Formal Obstructions” and Punctuation in Mrs. Dalloway and Pointed Roofs
Diane F. Gillespie - Advise and Reject: Virginia Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and a Forgotten Woman’s Voice
Karen L. Levenback - Florence Melian Stawell and Virginia Woolf: Home-front Experience, The Price of Freedom, and Patriotism
Benjamin D. Hagen - Intimations of Cosmic Indifference in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Olive Moore’s Spleen
Mark Hussey - “Could I sue a dead person?”: Rebecca West and Virginia Woolf
Vara Neverow - Splintered Sexualities in Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s “A Love Match”
Barbara Lonnquist - Sexual Cryptographies and War in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Heat of the Day

Tribute to Jane Marcus
Linda Camarasana - Memorial Tribute for Jane Marcus
J. Ashley Foster - To Jane, Thank You. With Love,
Jean Mills - Tribute to Jane Marcus

Notes on Contributors
Conference Program

About the Author

Julie Vandivere is Professor of English, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Megan Hicks, independent scholar.

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