Abbreviations

Certain abbreviations are used in the ‘NB’ (notes) part and in some other parts of the Bibliography, and which are needed in order to retrieve some data.  For example, if you want to find items about 'To the Lighthouse', you need to know the abbreviation ‘TTL’.

ACF      ‘A Cockney’s Farming Experiences’
AHA      ‘Abinger Harvest’
AHH      ‘A Haunted House and Other Short Stories’
ALT      ‘A Letter to a Young Poet’
AML      ‘A Moment’s Liberty’
AOT      ‘Aspects of the Novel’
APA      ‘A Passionate Apprentice:  the early journals of Virginia Woolf’
APT      ‘A Passage to India’
ARO      ‘A Room of One’s Own’
Art      Article
ARW      ‘A Room with a View’
Asheham  Asheham or Asham House
Aslib    ‘Aslib Index to Theses’ [UK]
AWD      ‘A Writer’s Diary’
AWE      ‘A Woman’s Essays’
BAP      ‘Books and Portraits’
BBC      British Broadcasting Corporation
BBR      ‘Beau Brummell’
Bbury    Bloomsbury
Bi       ‘A Bibliography of E.M. Forster’, by B.J. Kirkpatrick, 2nd ed, 1985
BiA      Section A of Bi (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
BiB      Section B of Bi (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Bibliog  Bibliography
BiC      Section C of Bi (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Biog     Biographical material relating to VW
Blackbo+ ‘The Black Book’:  search for ‘Schellenberg’ in database
BTA      ‘Between the Acts’
Catalog+ Catalogue
CD       Compact Disk
CDI      Comprehensive Dissertation Index [1861-1972]
CDO      ‘The Crowded Dance of Modern Life’
CE       ‘Collected Essays’, 1966-67
CE1      ‘Collected Essays’ [Vol 1]
CE2      ‘Collected Essays’ [Vol 2]
CE3      ‘Collected Essays’ [Vol 3]
CE4      ‘Collected Essays’ [Vol 4]
Charles+ Charleston Farmhouse
CR1      ‘The Common Reader’ [First series]
CR2      ‘The Common Reader’ [Second series]
Cross    ‘Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography,’ by Robert Cross, et al. (1999)
Cross+X  Not in Cross (q.v.)
CSF      ‘The Complete Shorter Fiction’
CSP      ‘Congenial Spirits:  The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf’
CT       Cannot trace
CWR      ‘Contemporary Writers’
DAI      ‘Dissertation Abstracts International’
DHL      D.H. Lawrence
DI       ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’
DI1      ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol. 1]
DI2      ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol. 2]
DI3      ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol. 3]
DI4      ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol. 4]
DI5      ‘The Diary of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol. 5]
DISS     Dissertation or thesis
DNB      ‘Dictionary of National Biography’
DP only  The entry on the computer is all that is held
ed       Edition / edited [by] / editor
EMF      E.M. Forster
ES       Ethel Smyth
Fawcett+ Fawcett Library (now the Women’s Library)
Feminism Feminism
FGA      ‘Friendships Gallery’:  see ‘Twentieth Century Literature’, XXV,3/4, 1979
Film     Film
FLU      ‘Flush:  A Biography’
fn       Footnote(s)
FRE      ‘Freshwater’
GAR      ‘Granite and Rainbow’
GLS      Lytton Strachey
H        Hogarth Press
HEN      ‘Howards End’
HIA      ‘Hours in a Library’
HN       Harold Nicolson
hs       Homosexuality
illus    Illustration(s), illustrated
imp      Impression
incl     Including
intro    Introduction [by]
IVWS     International Virginia Woolf Society
JRO      ‘Jacob’s Room’
KGA      ‘Kew Gardens’
KM       Katherine Mansfield
KMb      ‘A Bibliography of Katherine Mansfield’, by B.J. Kirkpatrick, 1989
Kp4      ‘A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf’, by B.J. Kirkpatrick & Stuart N. Clarke, 4th ed, 1997
Kp4A     Section A of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp4B     Section B of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp4C     Section C of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp4D     Section D of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp4E     Section E of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp4F     Section F of Kp (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Kp+X     Not in Kp4
KpX      Not in Kp4
KTA      ‘Killing the Angel in the House’
LE       ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’
LE1      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol 1] (‘The Flight of the Mind’)
LE2      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’[Vol 2] (‘The Question of Things Happening’)
LE3      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol 3] (‘A Change of Perspective’)
LE4      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’[Vol 4] (‘A Reflection of the Other Person’)
LE5      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’ [Vol 5] (‘The Sickle Side of the Moon’)
LE6      ‘The Letters of Virginia Woolf’[Vol 6] ‘Leave the Letters Till We’re Dead’
LP       Audio recording on long-playing vinyl disc
LS       Leslie Stephen
LSC      ‘The London Scene’
LSW      Leonard Woolf
Lu       ‘Leonard Woolf: A Bibliography’, by Leila Luedeking et al., 1992
LuA      Section A of Lu (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
LuB      Section A of Lu (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
LuC      Section A of Lu (q.v.); usually followed by a no.
Lu+X     Not in Lu (q.v.)
MAU      ‘Maurice’
MBA      ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’
MDA      ‘Mrs. Dalloway’
MDP      ‘Mrs Dalloway’s Party’
MEL      ‘Melymbrosia:  An Early Version of `The Voyage Out’
MFS      ‘Modern Fiction Studies’
MH       Monks House
Missing  Photocopied pages to be obtained
MLA      Modern Language Association
MM       ‘Virginia Woolf:  The Critical Heritage’ (ed. Robin Majumdar & Allen McLaurin)
MOB      ‘Moments of Being’
modern+  Modernism
MOT      ‘Monday or Tuesday’
MTH      ‘Marianne Thornton’
N/A      Not available [Do not try to type / when making searches]
NAD      ‘Night and Day’
NLG      ‘Nurse Lugton’s Golden Thimble’ or ‘Nurse Lugton’s Curtain’
NN       Nigel Nicolson
OBI      ‘On Being Ill’
Obit     Obituary
ORL      ‘Orlando: A Biography’
p        point mark (as in Kp4C:  eg, Kp4C297p1 = Kp4C297.1)
PAP      ‘Pharos and Pharillon’
PDA      ‘Paper Darts’
Photos   Photograph(s)
PMLA     ‘Publications of the Modern Language Association’
Poem     Poem(s)
postimp  Postimpressionism
postmod+ Postmodernism
Pr       Press
QB       Quentin Bell
QBB      ‘Virginia Woolf, A Biography’, by Quentin Bell
repr     Reprint(ed)
REV      ‘Reviewing’
RFA      ‘Roger Fry:  A Series of Impressions’
RFR      ‘Roger Fry:  A Biography’
SFH      ‘Selections from her Essays’
SHA      ‘Street Haunting’
Sickert  Walter Sickert (the man, not the essay)
SSS      ‘Selected Short Stories’
Stream+  Stream-of-consciousness
Supp     Supplement
SVG      ‘Stephen Versus Gladstone’
Talland+ Talland House
Tape     Audio tape
TCD      ‘The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays’
TCF      ‘Two Cheers for Democracy’
TCO      ‘The Celestial Omnibus’
TDO      ‘The Death of the Moth and Other Essays’
TE       The Essays of Virginia Woolf (ed. McNeillie)
TE1      The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol.1 (ed. McNeillie)
TE2      The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol.2 (ed. McNeillie)
TE3      The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol.3 (ed. McNeillie)
TE4      The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol.4 (ed. McNeillie)
TEM      ‘The Eternal Moment’
TGU      ‘Three Guineas’
THO      ‘The Hill of Devi’
TLJ      ‘The Longest Journey’
TLO      ‘The Love of Reading’
TLS      ‘Times Literary Supplement’
TMA      ‘The Moment and Other Essays’
TMO      ‘The Mark on the Wall’
TPA      ‘The Pargiters’
TRF      ‘The Roger Fry Memorial Exhibition:  An Address’
TSE      T.S. Eliot
TSO      ‘The Story of the Siren’
TTL      ‘To the Lighthouse’
TV       Television
TVO      ‘The Voyage Out’
TWA      ‘The Waves’
TWV      ‘Travels with Virginia Woolf’
TYE      ‘The Years’
UP       University Press
V???     LOCATION: Video tape
VB       Vanessa Bell
Video    Video tape
VSW      V. Sackville-West
VW       Virginia Woolf
VWA      ‘Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey: Letters’
VWB      ‘Virginia Woolf Bulletin’
VWM      ‘Virginia Woolf Miscellany’
VWQ      ‘Virginia Woolf Quarterly’
VWQb     ‘Virginia Woolf Quarterly’:  bibliography of the Hogarth Press, 1939-46
VWS      Virginia Woolf Society (now IVWS)
VWSGB    Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
W        ‘A Checklist of the Hogarth Press’, by J. Howard Woolmer, 1986
W???     ‘A Checklist ...’, by J. Howard Woolmer (q.v.): individual reference no.
WAF      ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’
WAT      ‘The Widow and the Parrot’
WAW      ‘Women and Writing’
w/e      Week ending [Do not try to type / when making searches]
WFI      ‘Women and Fiction’
WSA      ‘Walter Sickert:  A Conversation’
WSU      Washington State University
XAlpha   LOCATION: usually classics, but not directly relevant
XBL      Not held by the British Library
XCOL     Not held by the British Library at Colindale Newspaper Library
XL       Not held by the University of London Library
XLC      Not held by the Library of Congress
XSYDU    Not held by the University of Sydney Library
XUNSW    Not held by the University of New South Wales Library
XVW      Does not refer directly to Virginia Woolf