Woolf and the Brontës

Two recent newly published (or upcoming) books feature Virginia Woolf and the Brontës:

Virginia Woolf and the Literary Marketplace
Edited by Jeanne Dubino
# Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (24 Dec 2010)
# ISBN-10: 0230107060
# ISBN-13: 978-0230107069

These unique essays focus primarily on Woolf's non-fiction and considers her in the context of the modernist marketplace. With research based on new archival material, this volume makes important new contributions to the study of the 'gift economy.' 

It includes the essay: Something of a Firebrand: Virginia Woolf and the Literary Reputation of Emily Brontë by H.Bean

And Hesperus Press has released (or will release eventually) a selection of essays by Virginia Woolf (we suppose they are extracted from The Common Reader):

On Fiction
Virginia Woolf
# Paperback: 112 pages
# Publisher: Hesperus Press Ltd (31 Dec 2010)
# ISBN-10: 1843916185
# ISBN-13: 978-1843916185

Her readings sensitive, her prose style elegant, authoritative and at times thoroughly opinionated, who better equipped than Virginia Woolf to ruminate on the art of fiction? In this selection of lesser-known essays on reading and storytelling, Woolf turns her critical gaze on treasured favourites including 'the four great women novelists - Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë and George Eliot', and unearths some less familiar talents. Her discussion of differing approaches to reading is characteristically forward-thinking, and pinpoints the joys of this favourite pastime, in all its guises. 'Here, then, very briefly and with inevitable simplification, an attempt is made to show the mind at work upon a shelf full of novels and to watch it as it chooses and rejects, making itself a dwelling-place in accordance with its own appetites. Of these appetites, perhaps, the simplest is the desire to believe wholly and entirely in something which is fictitious.' 

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