A selection of Virginia Woolf’s reading and research notebooks that are in The Keep’s Special Collections can now be accessed online.

WoolfNotes.com provides images of Virginia Woolf’s lifetime reading and research notes. At the core of the project is the presentation of 67 Reading Notebooks – 33 from The Keep, 33 from the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library and one from the Beinecke Library at Yale – accompanied by the text of Brenda Silver’s summary of each one.

It also includes research notecards from the Leonard Woolf papers compiled for his book ‘Empire and Commerce in Africa (1920)’.

According to the website: “This large collection of reading and research notes corrects the myth (partly generated by Woolf herself) that she was uneducated. It shows how her writing, both fiction and non-fiction, was indebted to extensive and rigorous research on social, historical, economic, political, and imperial issues.”