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Abbreviations

Certain abbreviations are used in the ‘NB’ (notes) field and in some other fields 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 Eperiences’
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
BL British Library (followed by call no.)
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
CHO ‘Carlyle’s House’
CR1 ‘The Common Reader’ [First series]
CR2 ‘The Common Reader’ [Second series]
Cross ‘Vita Sackville-West: A Bibliography,’ by Robert Cross
& Ann Ravescroft-Hulme (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 Cardbox 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)
FGA ‘Friendships Gallery’: see ‘Twentieth Century
Literature’, Vol. XXV, Nos. 3/4, 1979
Film Film
FLU ‘Flush: A Biography’
fn Footnote(s)
FRE ‘Freshwater’
GAR ‘Granite and Rainbow’
GLD (‘)Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson(’)
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, 1975
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: e.g., 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, 1972
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)
TE5 ‘The Essays of Virginia Woolf’, Vol.5 (ed. Clarke)
TE6 ‘The Essays of Virginia Woolf’, Vol.6 (ed. Clarke)
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’
TLT ‘The Life to Come’
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

Last updated
21 October 2009