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Clay’s memories of the Civil War era—she knows little about United States history and even takes notes on the 1850s from the Cambridge Modern History of the United States. Only when she tries to fit the United States into her own frame of reference, calling Washington society “a kind of democratic Court” (VS notes 2), does she interpret at all. In the review, she makes the same move, turning Mrs. Clay into “an American version of our European ‘great lady’ ” (E 1: 17). Studies of Woolf ’s writing and revising practice often focus on her cuts and a resulting loss of critique,16 but Virginia Stephen’s movement from notes to reviews during her apprenticeship ref lects a more complex process.

Belle is an American memoir about a time long past; James is a well-established great author; Wharton is American; Ainger is dead—they do not need instruction. Indeed, Stephen plays the student to these authors—discovering how Sterling’s memoir uncovers women who “did really exist beneath [a] mass of artificialities” (E 1: 19); thumbing her nose at the great James when she comments that genius would have dissolved the fatigues of reading him, but genius “is precisely what we do not find” (E 1: 23–24); noticing how Wharton leaves the moral up to the reader (E 1: 68); and learning from Ainger Reading, Taking Notes, and Writing 37 that “certain defects are almost inherent in the [lecture’s] form” (E 1: 84–85).

Virginia Stephen’s notes on c. 45 books read for review. SxMs 18. a. 1905–1906. MS. Monks House Papers. Univ. , U of Sussex, Brighton, UK.

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