Virginia Stephen at the Dr Williams’s Library
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12247207 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clara Jones (0000-0001-5343-4150, English and Foreign Languages University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 125-136 |
| Publication date | 2016-04-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women a Cultural Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0957-4042 • E-ISSN: 1470-1367 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09574042.2016.1227151 |
| OpenAlex | W2527905430 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This article considers the implications of Virginia Stephen’s membership of the foremost library of Protestant nonconformity in London—the Dr Williams’s Library. Drawing on research in the library’s archives, the author focuses on the original record of Stephen’s membership in the 1905 ‘Index of Readers’. While paying close attention to the semantic specificities of the record itself, this article also positions Stephen’s individual record in the wider context of the community of readers this index documents. The article explores the degree to which Stephen’s encounter with the predominantly female and scholarly, but also distinctly lower-middle-class and professional readership of the Dr Williams’s Library may have influenced the concerns of her 1909 short story ‘Memoirs of a Novelist’ and her first novel, The Voyage Out
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |