Books and Portraits: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978. x, 221 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear/small corner crease on the front flap. CONTENTS: PART I. OF WRITING AND WRITERS; In the orchard; A woman's college from outside; On a faithful friend; English prose; Impressions at Bayreuth; Modes and manners of the nineteenth century; Men and women; Coleridge as critic; Patmore's criticism; Papers on Pepys; Sheridan; Thomas Hood; Praeterita; Mr. Kipling's notebook; Emerson's journals; Thoreau; Herman Melville; Rupert Brooke; The intellectual imagination; These are the plans; Mr. Sassoon's poems; A Russian schoolboy; A glance at Turgenev; A giant with very small thumbs; Dostoevsky the father; More Dostoevsky; Dostoevsky in Cranford; The Russian background; A scribbling dame; Maria Edgeworth and her circle; Jane Austen and the geese; Mrs. Gaskell; The compromise; Wilcoxiana; The genius of Boswell; Shelley and Elizabeth Hitchener; Literary geography; Flumina Amem Silvasque; Haworth, November 1904; PART II. MAINLY PORTRAITS; The girlhood of Queen Elizabeth; The diary of a lady in waiting; Queen Adelaide; Elizabeth Lady Holland; Lady Hester Stanhope; The memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt; Lady Strachey; John Delane; Body and brain.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.