A Sisterly Collaboration: Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and the Woodcut
摘要
This chapter explores the collaborative relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell through their shared engagement with the woodcut medium. It examines Woolf’s arboreal modernism in Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando, where trees decenter human experience and model ecological interconnection. The analysis contextualizes Bell’s woodcut covers within the Bloomsbury tradition, showing how these “puzzling” images resist singular interpretation and complement Woolf’s prose. The chapter demonstrates how the Hogarth Press embodied their shared vision of books as material objects that bridge nature and culture.