Contents

pp v-vi

Introduction to Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader

pp vii-xii

Acknowledgments

pp xiii-xiii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiv-xiv

Invocations

pp 1-6

Networks of Affiliation: Foundations and Friends

pp 7-7

Education and Empire in Victorian Bloomsbury

pp 8-17

Synthesizing Civilizations: Leonard Woolf, the League of Nations, and the Inverse of Imperialism, 1928–1933

pp 18-26

James Stephen's Anti-Slavery Politics: A Woolfian Inheritance

pp 27-32

Networks of Empire: Virginia Woolf and the Travel Writing of Emily Eden

pp 33-38

Of Scrapbooks, War, and Newspapers: Leslie Stephen's Legacy

pp 39-44

Leslie Stephen's Science of (Ecological) Ethics

pp 45-49

“The Death of a Beautiful Man”: Rupert Brooke in Memory and Imagination

pp 50-58

Leonard Woolf and the Ceylon Civil Service: “I had come to dislike imperialism”

pp 59-64

Virginia Woolf in the British Commonwealth

pp 65-76

Woolf and the Commonwealth

pp 77-77

“Simplicity and art shades reign supreme”: Costume, Collectibles, and Aspiration in Katherine Mansfield's New Zealand

pp 78-87

Wealth in Common: Gifts, Desire, and Colonial Commodities in Woolf and Mansfield

pp 88-93

On a View from the Rims: Katherine Mansfield and Emily Carr

pp 94-106

London Calling: Una Marson in the Colonial London Scene

pp 107-114

Modernism Across the Commonwealth: Virginia Woolf's and Arundhati Roy's Critique of Empire

pp 115-120

From Bloomsbury to Fountain Lakes: An Australian Virginia Woolf

pp 121-126

1930s Onwards

pp 127-127

War, Peace, Internationalism: Bloomsbury Legacies

pp 128-144

“Caterpillars of the Commonwealth Unite”: Photography and Trauma in Three Guineas

pp 145-150

“Drawn from Our Island History”: Virginia Woolf, Nancy Mitford, and the Politics of Pageantry

pp 151-158

A ”Bloodless and Pernicious Pest”: The Middlebrow's “Common Man” in the Essays of Virginia Woolf

pp 159-164

Woolf's Troubled and Troubling Relationship to Race: The Long Reach of the White Arm of Imperialism

pp 165-172

Woolfian Seamarks: Commodified Women and the Racial Other on the Shores of Empire

pp 173-182