Virginia Woolf's Essays and Short Fiction: A Collection
I was struck that a) there wasn't a readily accessible copy of the essay online, and b) it wasn't even entirely clear what the original venue of publication was. Woolf did not choose to include the essay in one of her two main collections of essays that were published in her lifetime (The Common Reader 1 and 2), nor was it readily available in some of the collected writings volumes I had on my shelf. Indeed, I realized that "Thunder at Wembley" is one of more than 100 short essays by Woolf that appear in various out of print collections (The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf -- in six volumes!), but which are currently difficult to access online.
This site aims to address that absence, and bring together all of Woolf's out of copyright short published writings with verified information about original publication venues. It seems helpful to connect Woolf's short fiction with her essays since a number of her stories have essayistic qualities and many of her essays engage in fictionalization -- such that the line between the two sometimes isn't easily drawn.
We'll also be linking various texts with metadata -- tags that may be of use to researchers working on particular topics in Woolf. We'll start with readily available texts from The Common Reader (1925) and Woolf's early short stories (Monday or Tuesday, 1921). From there, we'll begin to add in various reviews and essays published in venues like TLS and The Guardian, among many others.
Finally, we'll aim add annotations to make obscure references and historical events in Woolf's writing more accessible to readers.