'To the Lighthouse' by Virginia Woolf: Contemporary Reviews (1927)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 26, 2024

In Category - Literary Criticism

Authors: Various In Year : 1927

Book Language: English

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Mrs. Woolf's New Novel, The Times Literary Supplement
Virginia Woolf Explores an English Country Home, Louis Kronenberger, The New York Times
From Virginia Woolf and Others, Rachel A. Taylor, The Spectator
The Novel as Work of Art, Conrad Aiken, The Dial
Sensitives, A. M., The Manchester Guardian
Review, Edwin Muir, The Nation and Athenaeum
Woman as Artist, Mary M. Colum, The New York Herald Tribune
An Allegorical Novel, Francis Brown, The Daily Herald
From The Editor Recommends, The Bookman
Unsigned Review, The English Review
Unsigned Review, The New Age
Review, C. S. & M. A., The Bookshelf
From Books and Persons, Arnold Bennett, The Evening Standard
The Cauldron of Perception, Zona Gale, The Saturday Review of Literature
From Notes on Recent Books, Elizabeth Brown Cutting, The North American Review
From Mr. Chesterton and Others, Gerald Gould, The Observer
Lyrical Fiction, The Glasgow Herald
Nothing is simply one: Virginia Woolf’s surprising new story, Lydia Languish, John O'London's Weekly
Done in the Round, Mary Ross, The Nation
Poetic fiction: Mrs. Virginia Woolf’s novel experiment, The Morning Post
From Novels and Stories, M. Robinson, The New Adelphi
Unsigned Review, Punch
Review, F. W. K., The Sewanee Review
Review, John Sydenham, The Empire Review
Unsigned Review, The Bookman
Mrs. Woolf's Way, Time Magazine
Unsigned Review, Country Life
Civilized people in life and fiction, Charles R. Walker, The Independent
From New Fiction, T. Earle Welby, The Saturday Review
Six months in the field of fiction, Edwin Clark, The New York Times

Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse was published in May 1927 in both Britain and the United States. The publication of Mrs. Dalloway a year earlier had secured Virginia Woolf's reputation as an experimental writer. To the Lighthouse was, consequently, widely reviewed in the British and American press in the months following its publication. Most reviewers praised Mrs. Woolf's genius, although they found evidence of it in varied aspects of the book. For some, the book was a flawed masterpiece, although they did not agree on what the flaws were. A few recalcitrant reviewers failed to see anything of significance in Woolf's new book at all. This collection of contemporary reviews, by reviewers including Louis Kronenberger, Conrad Aiken, Edwin Muir, Zona Gale, Ruth Sucknow and Arnold Bennett, is sourced from the Woolf Online web site. It includes standalone reviews of To the Lighthouse, extracts from longer reviews of new fiction, and in the last section, Edwin Clark's full New York Times review of new fiction published in the first half of the year. Listeners may be surprised at just how varied 30 reviews of a single book can be! (Summary by Phil Benson)