And snide, too
Sir: Professor Spender, in the postscript to his review of Professor Bell's Life of Virginia Woolf (June 17), makes a snide reference to 'the misprints in this volume.' May I point out that the relative of Virginia's who 'made incestuous assaults on her' was not her stepbrother, but her half-brother, that his Christian name was not Jack but George, and that his surname was not Dickworth but Duckworth. Also that the original Hogarth Press is not housed 'in a garret' at Sissinghurst but in a fascinating small museum half-way up Vita Sackville-West's Tower. Haven't I read something somewhere about the inadvisability of people with a beam in their own eye drawing attention to motes in another's?
Ian Parsons The Hogarth Press Ltd, 40-42 William IV Street, London WC2.
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