Unpublished Woolf manuscripts to British Library

A series of previously unpublished manuscripts hand-written by Virginia Woolf are among a collection that has been bought by The British Library. The manuscripts form part of two mock newspapers composed by Woolf's nephews, Julian and Quentin Bell, as children.

Some 188 editions of the partly hand-written, partly-typed newspapers - The Charleston Bulletin and The New Bulletin - were found in an old tin trunk.

Woolf's contributions, many of which are written in her favourite purple ink, offer a revealing insight into the Bloomsbury set - a group of artists and and intellectuals that included Woolf and her husband Leonard.

The collection, owned by Quentin Bell's widow, Mrs Olivier Bell, has remained in family hands until now.

Posted by David on April 7, 2003 1:21 PM