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COLLECTION Identifier: MS Thr 563

Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album, MH-6

Overview

The sixth of six photograph albums compiled by English writer, Virginia Woolf.

Dates

  • Creation: 1850-1900 and undated

Language of Materials

Collection materials are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

Restricted: fragile; use surrogate. For access to original consult curatorial staff.

Conditions Governing Use

Images linked to this finding aid are intended for public access and educational use. This material is owned and/or held by the Houghton Library, and is provided solely for the purpose of teaching or individual research. Any other use, including commercial reuse, mounting on other systems, or other forms of redistribution requires the permission of the curator.

Extent

.5 linear feet (1 volume in 1 box)

All of the photographs in the Monk's House Photograph album MH-6 are portraits. The portraits are of public figures, many of whom were personally known by the Woolf and Stephen families. The photographs include portraits of Sarah Bernhardt, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, William Gaskell, W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone, Henry James, Abraham Lincoln, Baron Alfred Tennyson, Dame Ellen Terry and other famous men and women of the time period. This album does not contain any photographs of Virginia Woolf although she and her family members collected them.

Biographical / Historical

Virginia Woolf (1882 –1941) was an English novelist, essayist, diarist, publisher, feminist, and writer of short stories.

Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album (no. 1) was most likely arranged originally by Virginia Woolf as well as possibly Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell and other family members.

Most of the albums are missing photographs that may now be located in the loose photographs listed below in the cataloging. These images may have been removed to serve as illustrations for Leonard Woolf's publications as well as A marriage of two minds by George Spater and Ian Parsons.

Arrangement

The albums were numbered one through six when gifted by Frederick R. Koch to the Houghton Library in 1983. This order was retained in the repository.

Photographs are numbered in order of appearance in the album. In addition, the recto of pages are numbered in order of appearance in the album. Pages devoid of any photographs are not numbered. Titles of photographs have been devised by cataloger.

Photographs found loose inside the album were removed to a separate folder. The original location is documented in the cataloging.

Physical Location

b

Immediate Source of Acquisition

No accession number. Gift of Frederick R. (Frederick Robinson) Koch, received: 1983 March.

Separated Materials

For other Monk's House photographs see: MS Thr 557, MS Thr 559, MS Thr, 560, MS Thr 561, MS Thr 562, MS Thr 564.

Bibliography

Humm, Maggie. Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006. )
  • Humm, Maggie. Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The private lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2006. )

Processing Information

Processed by: Jennifer Lyons.

Title
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Virginia Woolf Monk's House photograph album, MH-6, circa 1850-1900: Guide.
Author
Harvard Theatre Collection. Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
und
EAD ID
hou02073

Repository Details

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