- ^ Leslie Stephen treasured this photograph, saying it "makes my heart tremble"[9]
- ^ According to Helena Swanwick, sister of Walter Sickert
- ^ Quention Bell speculates that their relationship formed the background to their mutual friend Henry James' Altar of the Dead[16]
- ^ Woolf provides insight into her early life in her autobiographical essays, including Reminiscences (1908),[20] 22 Hyde Park Gate (1921),[21] and A Sketch of the Past (1940).[22] Other essays that provide insight into this period include Leslie Stephen (1932).[23] Leslie Stephen was originally published in The Times on 28 November 1932 and republished posthumously in 1950 in The Captain's death bed: and other essays, and eventually, in the Collected Essays Volume 5[24]
- ^ The line separating the additional floors of 1886 can be clearly seen.[38]
- ^ There was no furniture upstairs and the cold water tap did not function
- ^ As of 2018 The house still stands, though much altered, on Albert Road, off Talland Road
- ^ A notice was posted to the effect that the St Ives Nursing Association had hired "a trained nurse ... under the direction of a Committee of Ladies to attend upon the SICK POOR of St Ives free of cost and irrespective of Creed" and that "gifts of old linen" should be sent to Mrs E Hain or Mrs Leslie Stephen, of Talland House and Hyde Park Gate. St Ives, Weekly Summary, Visitors' List and Advertiser 2 September 1893.[43] The phrase "irrespective of Creed" echoes her axiom "Pity has no creed" in Agnostic Women 1880 (see Quotations)
- ^ Virginia recreated this scene in To the Lighthouse[41][3]
- ^ King's College began providing lectures for women in 1871, and formed the Ladies' Department in 1885. In 1900 women were allowed to prepare for degrees. Later it became Queen Elizabeth College[68]
- ^ The Stephen sisters attended the May Ball in 1900 and 1901,[73] where they had to be chaperoned by their cousin, Katharine Stephen, then librarian at Newnham College, Cambridge, a women's college[74]
- ^ 3 May 1927 to Vita Sackville-West[95]
- ^ James Kenneth Stephen was the son of James Fitzjames Stephen, Leslie Stephen's older brother
- ^ Lady Margaret was the second daughter of Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon.
- ^ Much later, in the 1960s, Leonard Woolf lists those people he considered as being "Old Bloomsbury" as: Vanessa and Clive Bell, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Adrian and Karin Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E. M. Forster, Sydney Saxon-Turner, Roger Fry, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy and later David Garnett and Julian, Quentin and Angelica Bell. Others add Ottoline Morrell, Dora Carrington and James and Alix Strachey. The "core" group are considered to be he Stephens and Thoby's closest Cambridge friends, Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Lytton Strachey and Saxon Sydney-Turner.[105][106]
- ^ Katherine Laird ("Ka") Cox (1887–1938): The orphaned daughter of a wealthy stockbroker, Ka attended Newnham College and was the second treasurer of the Cambridge Fabian Society, and became both friend and nurse to Virginia Woolf.[110][111][112]
- ^ Demolished in 1936 to make way for the Pharmacy School[125][126] A commemorative plaque on the school now marks the site (see image)[127]
- ^ It has been suggested that Woolf bound books to help cope with her depression, as is hinted at in her writing: "A great part of every day is not lived consciously. One walks, eats, sees things, deals with what has to be done; the broken vacuum cleaner; ... cooking dinner; bookbinding."[153]
- ^ Virginia was somewhat disparaging about the exterior of Little Talland House, describing it as an "eyesore" (Letter to Violet Dickinson 29 January 1911) and "inconceivably ugly, done up in patches of post-impressionist colour" (Letters, no. 561, April 1911). However she and Vanessa decorated the interior, "staining the floors the colours of the Atlantic in a storm" (Letters, no. 552, 24 January 1911)[170]
- ^ Sometimes spelled "Asheham". Demolished 1994[151]
- ^ "Goat" was also a term of ridicule that George Duckworth used towards Virginia, "he always called me 'the poor goat' "(Letter to Vanessa 13 May 1921)[187]
- ^ "Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind."[335]
- ^ "after having read Ulysses in English as well as a very good French translation, I can see that the original Spanish translation was very bad. But I did learn something that was to be very useful to me in my future writing—the technique of the interior monologue. I later found this in Virginia Woolf, and I like the way she uses it better than Joyce."[336]
- ^ "I wrote on Woolf and Faulkner. I read a lot of Faulkner then. You might not know this, but in the '50s, American literature was new. It was renegade. English literature was English. So there were these avant-garde professors making American literature a big deal. That tickles me now."[337]
- ^ Originally published in 1976, the discovery in 1980 of a 77-page typescript acquired by the British Library, containing 27 pages of new material necessitated a new edition in 1985. In particular, 18 pages of new material was inserted between pp. 107–125 of the first edition. Page 107 of that edition resumes as page 125 in the second edition, so that page references to the first edition in the literature, after p. 107 are found 18–19 pages later in the second edition.[351] All page references to Sketches are to the second edition, otherwise to the first edition of Moments of Being. This added 22 new pages, and changed the pagination for the Memoir Club essays that followed by an extra 22 pages. Pagination also varies between printings of the 2nd. edition. Pages here refer to the 1985 Harvest (North American) edition
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