17 AUGUST 1991, Page 34

Bloomsbury book list

Roy Dean

The 50th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf this year has generated fresh interest in the life and works of the revered prose stylist. More readers will be encouraged to tackle the mysteries of her craft; others will seek enlightenment on the literary and social phenomenon known as the Bloomsbury Group. There already exists a bewildering array of scholarly material on these themes produced by the Woolf industry. Whatever view you may take on the great Lupine controversy — pro or anti-Woolf — you will wish to keep up with dinner conversation in the smartest circles. Here are some of the most impor- tant books recommended for study: ALBEE, Edward: Who's Who in Virginia Woolf. BELL, Quentin: Travails with my Aunt.

BELL, Vanessa: A Feast of Stephens.

BETJEMAN, John: Twilight on Virginia Water. BLAKE, Michael: Dances with Woo/f'. BROOKE, Rupert: Call) Inc Back to Old Virginny.

BYATT, Antonia: Virginia in the Garden. CARRINGTON, Dora: Love in Bloomsbury. CARTER, Angela: The Company Of Woolfs. DUCKWORTH, George: The Young Virginia. ELIOT, Thomas Stearns: The Sacred Woolf. FRY, Roger: Virgin by Design.

GARNETT, David: Lady Into Woolf GLENDINNING, Victoria: Vita, Violet, Virginia and Vanessa.

HESSE, Hermann: Stephen-Woolf.

HUGHES, Richard: The Woolf in the Attic. JOYCE, James: Bloom's Beret.

LAWRENCE, David Herbert: Virginia and the Gypsy.

MANSFIELD, Katherine: Cry Woolf and Other Stories.

MORRELL, Ottoline: The Circle in the Square: A Bloomsbury Diary.

NICOLSON, Harold: The Congress of Virginia. NICOLSON, Nigel: Portrait of a Mirage: The Elusive Virginia.

PRITCHE'TT, Victor Sawdons: A Woolf at the Door SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita: Virginia Creeper SMITH, Stevie: Not Waving but Drowning: Imagery of Virginia Woolf.

STRACHEY, Lytton: Eminent Virginians. WEBB, Mary: Woolf's Bane.

WELLS, Herbert George: The War with the Woolfs.

WILSON, Edmund: The Lighthouse and The Wave : A Sussex Seascape.

WOOLF, Leonard: The Wise Virginia.

WOOLF, Virginia: To the Nuthouse.