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Conclusion
This argument assumes that Woolf read quickly through the proofs of Mrs. Dalloway while she was at Monks House, 6-10 February 1925, making over 50 revises on the proofsheets for Raverat, including the substitution of a 200-word paragraph at page 225. Several long segments of the novel, most noticeably pages 7-90 and pages 155-198, are left virtually uncorrected in R, but not in the other two proofsets. The clustering of R revises further suggests that these proofs were read sequentially in brief stints, corresponding roughly to the twelve sections of the novel as represented correctly in the first Hogarth edition. Variants between the extant proofsets and between the two first editions are attributable largely to transcription errors, to authorial oversights, and to subsequent revisions after Woolf mailed proofs to Raverat and to Harcourt, although some revises were intentionally omitted (or perhaps included) for Raverat. At times Woolf could be attentive to minute details in phrasing and punctuation; at others she could be haphazard and careless.
Correcting proof is always a tedious business, and Woolf's work was made more difficult by having to work under the pressure of self-imposed deadlines and during an illness. Since the Raverat proofs were the first to be mailed, and since Woolf must have returned to the other two sets for further corrections, the Raverat set might be considered merely a literary curiosity. It is more than this, however, because it offers valuable evidence about Woolf's correcting and revising her novel, and it allows the dating of certain of her
Appendix I
Raverat Proofs of Mrs. Dalloway: List of
Alterations
References to the Raverat proofs are cited by page and line number, followed by page and line citations for corresponding passages in the first Harcourt edition (A1). Pagination in the first Hogarth edition (E1) follows closely that of the proofs.
- 91.1/89.13 nothing. but . . . him] period not del.; 'but' interl. bef. 'It' ('I' del.); 'that annoyed him;' interl. ab. 'manner;' with guideline bef. semicolon
- 91.1-2/89.14 her timid; hard;] alt. fr. 'her timid hardness;' ('her' underscored in pencil); semicolon insrtd. bef. 'hardness' (final 'ness' del.)
- 91.2/89.14 arrogant] 'something' del. bef. 'arrogant'
- 91.10/89.22 afraid. and Clarissa did frighten people)] '& Clarissa did frighten people)' insrtd. aft. 'afraid.'
- 92.5-6/90.17-18 in, he] 'he always saw through Clarissa' insrtd. for del. 'and he had his ways of making her feel it.' ('it.' not stricken in del.)
- 92.13/90.25 looking] final 'ing' insrtd. for del. 'ed'
- 92.13-21/90.25-91.6 (The place . . . bird-cages.)] parens. insrtd.
- 93.7/91.19-20 felt . . . old] 'had sat down by' insrtd. with guideline over del. period aft. 'felt'; 'o' insrtd. aft. del. 'O'
- 93.14-16/91.25-26 botanist. . . . shoulders] 'marching off in thick boots with a black tin collecting box slung between her shoulders' insrtd. aft. del. '(she wore always a black tin collecting-box slung between her shoulders; marched off in thick boots with a great stick.)'; period aft. 'botanist' not del.
- 94.14/92.24-25 2something] 'something' insrtd. bef. 'gentle, different' ('different' del.)
- 94.28/93.13-14 hurt her] 'after seeing her with Dalloway' insrtd. aft. 'her'
- 95.6/93.18-19 wood; [h]e talking] semicolon ab. undel. period; 'H' del. without adding lower case; final 'ing' insrtd. for del. 'ed'
- 95.21/94.7-8 Aunt Helena—poor Miss Parry!] 'Miss Parry' insrtd. for del. 'old lady'
- 128.12/127.15 mother;] 'she lied;' insrtd. aft. semicolon
- 128.21/127.24 men called Smith;] 'called Smith' insrtd. bef. semicolon
- 129.16/128.21 Pole,] comma added beside del. semicolon
- 129.25/129.3 time,] comma (?) insrtd.
- 132.15-16/131.20 him;] followed by del. 'he could not combine things'
- 134.8/133.12 who married and] 'married &' insrtd. with caret aft. 'who'
- 141.10/140.18 Rezia had gone shopping] 'gone shopping' insrtd. aft. del. 'left'
- 141.24/141.6 room.] followed by insrtd. 'she' (later del.)
- 141.27/141.9 already.] 'she said, arranging the roses' insrtd.; period not del.
- 149.5/148.19 then . . . Bradshaw] 'Holmes & Bradshaw' insrtd. aft. del. 'his torturers'
- 149.22/149.10 Trust] insrtd. for del. 'Leave'
- 154.16/154.7-8 If . . . support] 'him' insrtd. without caret; probably intended to read 'If they failed him'
- 155.3-4/154.21-22 But . . . man] 'But Rezia Warren Smith cried, walking down Harley Street that she did not like that man' insrtd. in bottom margin for del. 'But Rezia Warren Smith cried out, walking Harley Street, that she had been deserted.'
- 175.4/175.9 miracle] followed by del. semicolon (del. in pencil with del. symbol in margin)
- 184.10-11/184.17 woman . . . understand] 'could' insrtd. in pencil aft. 'woman'; final 'and' insrtd. in pencil for del. 'ood'
- 198.12-13/198.24-25 Kilman . . . small.] 'made one feel so small.' insrtd. for del. 'was quite different from any one she knew.'
- 200.9-10/200.23-24 people . . . more] 'she said' insrtd. bef. 'more' ('much' del.); quot. mrks. omitted
- 201.2/201.17-18 Beauty . . . 1gone] 'youth,' del. aft. 'Beauty,'; 'Youth had gone.' insrtd. without caret
- 220.11-12/221.11-12 up;] followed by 'first one thing, then another, she built it up, sewing.' insrtd. for del. 'the house, the frail card house.'
- 221.16-17/222.17 And . . . 2him] 'She too could help him.' insrtd. aft. undel. 'And she could say anything to him.'
- 224.15/225.16 him . . . up] 'coming up' insrtd. aft. 'him.' with guideline over final period
- 225.1-17/226.2-24 See transcription in Appendix II.
- 248.17/250.23 2how] 'h' alt. fr. 'H'
- 271.2-3/273.21-22 Parry . . . . lady!] 'Wonderful old lady!' moved with caret from beginning of next paragraph
- 271.3/273.23 Lady Bruton] insrtd. for del. 'She'
- 271.22/274.16 Milly] 'i' over 'o'
- 276.20-21/279.17-18 Oh . . . party] 'death' del. aft. 'Oh'; comma added for del. period aft. 'Clarissa'; 'i' ab. del. 'I'; 'my' insrtd. for del. 'her'
- 277.27/280.25 This . . . . Death] 'This he had preserved.' insrtd. bef. 'Death'
- 278.3/281.2 draws] Proofpage read 'drew'; 'a' ab. 'e'; final 's' added
- 278.4/281.3 fades] Proofpage read 'faded'; final 's' over 'd'
- 278.4/281.3 one is] 'is' interl. ab. del. 'was'
- 278.7-10/281.6-8 "If . . . white.] 'That evening coming downstairs to Sally,' del. bef. '"If'; 'she had said to herself,' moved with guideline aft. 'happy."' [period not del.]; 'once coming down in white' insrtd. aft. 'herself' [comma omitted aft. 'once']
- 278.16/281.13-14 outrage . . . forcing] 'he would' del. bef. 'forcing' (final 'ing' ab. del. 'e')
- 278.25/281.23 end . . . incapacity;] 'to be walked with serenely' insrtd. aft. 'end' (no comma added); 'one's overwhelming incapacity;' not del.
- 278.27/281.24 an] 'an' interl. ab. del. 'that'
- 279.2/282.1 revive] followed by del. dash (no comma added)
- 279.2/282.1 1that] 'insolence that levity that' insrtd. aft. 'that'
- 279.6-9/282.5 disgrace.] followed by del. 'Was he married? Had he left a wife to go on, to face the Bradshaws (how much they stood for!) alone?'
- 279.14/282.10 success,—] comma over del. period; dash insrtd.
- 279.28/282.23-24 sleep. . . . window.] 'She walked to the window.' insrtd. aft. 'sleep.'
- 280.9-10/283.7 quickly. . . . tapering] 'by' insrtd. aft. 'quickly' (final period not del.); 'There were' del. bef. 'tapering'
- 281.6/284.4 room.] Horizontal line drawn across proofpage below line 6; 'space' written in rt. margin as direction to printer to leave line 7 blank
- 290.21/293.26-294.1 women . . . her] 'would never give' insrtd. for del. 'never gave'
Appendix II
Transcription of Typescript Inserted in Raverat Proofs (225.1-17)
The following transcription attempts to do two things: (1) to note the revisions Woolf made when she deleted a paragraph in the Raverat proofs (225.1-17) and replaced it with the typescript transcribed here; and (2) to record the variants between
burst open the door. Holmes would * saya [comma omitted] * =Inb [typographical error for '"In'] a funk, eh?" Holmes would get him. But no; not Holmes; not Bradshaw. * Getting up rather unsteadily, hopping indeed from foot to foot, he considered Mrsc Filmer's nice clean bread knifed with 'Bread'e carved on the handle. Ah, but one mustn't spoilf that. The gas fire? But it was too late now. Holmes was coming,g Razors he might have got, but Rezia, who always did that sort of thing, had packed them. [insrtd. aft. 'Bradshaw'] There remained * only [insrtd.] the window, the large Bloomsbury * lodging [hyph. omitted] househ window, the tiresome, the troublesome, and rather melodramatic business of opeiningi the window and * throwinj himself out [insrtd. for del. 'getting out on to the sill']. It was their idea of tragedy, not his or Rezia's (for she was with him) *. [period insrtd. for del. semicolon] Holmes and Bradshaw * likedk that sort of thing [insrtd. for del. 'always insisted upon scenes like this']. * (He sat on the sill)1 ** But he would waitm till the very last moment. He did not want to die. [insrtd.] ** Life ['L' alt. fr. 'l'] was [insrtd. for del. 'As for himself (he had raised himself on to the sill now—could see Mrs. Filmer's pots were down below) life was'] * good; the sunn hot [insrtd. for del. 'pleasant, the air cooler after the heat; he had no wish to die']. * Only human beings—what did theyo want of one?p [insrtd.; 'they' underscored in ink] * Coming down the stair caseq opposite an old man stopped and stared at him. [insrtd. for del. 'But look at the old man in the house opposite, staring at him!'] * Holmes was at the door [insrtd. for del. 'Human nature—Here was Holmes']. * "I'll give it you!" he cried, and [insrtd. for del. 'He'] flung himself * vigorously, [comma added] * violently,r [comma added] down on to * Mrss [alt. fr. 'Mrs.'] Filmer's area railings.
- a say] ˜ Apr, A1; ˜, E1
- b=In] "˜ Apr, A1, E1
- c Mrs] ˜ Apr; ˜. A1, E1
- d bread knife] ˜˜ Apr, A1; ˜-˜ E1
- e 'Bread'] '˜' Apr; "˜" A1, E1
- f spoil] ˜ A1, E1; spoilt Apr
- g coming,] ˜. Apr, A1, E1
- h Bloomsbury lodging house] ˜˜˜ Apr; ˜-˜˜ A1; ˜˜-˜ E1
- i opeining] opening Apr, A1, E1
- j throwin] throwing Apr, A1, E1
- k liked] ˜ Apr, E1; like A1
- l sill)] ˜) Apr; ˜.) A1, E1
- m wait] ˜ A1, E1; wiat Apr
- n good; the] ˜. The Apr, A1, E1
- o they] underscrd. in ink Apr; ital. A1; del. E1
- p Only . . . one?] Only . . . want ['of one' del. Apr]? A1; Only . . . beings? E1
- q stair case] staircase Apr, E1; stair-| case A1
- r violently,] ˜ [∧] Apr, A1, E1
- s Mrs] ˜ Apr; ˜. A1, E1
Notes for Appendix II
- Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972.
- Bowers, Fredson. "Transcription of Manuscripts: The Record of Variants." Studies in Bibliography, 29 (1976): 212-264.
- DeSalvo, Louise A. Virginia Woolf's First Voyage: A Novel in the Making. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1980.
- Kirkpatrick, B. J. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. 3rd ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980.
- Lukenbill, Dan. "UCLA's Mrs. Dalloway Proofs, Ex Libris Majl Ewing." UCLA Librarian February 1982: 11-16.
- Shields, E. F. "The American Edition of Mrs. Dalloway." Studies in Bibliography, 27 (1974): 157-175.
- Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. 5 vols. Ed. Anne Olivier Bell. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977-84.
- ____. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. 6 vols. Ed. Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautman. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975-82.
- ____. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Hogarth Press, 1925. (E1)
- Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1925. (A1)
- Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981. (A2)
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