This extensively annotated edition of Virgina Woolf’s last novel is based on the text of the first English edition, emended on the basis of a comparison of it with her final typescript.

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• Represents an authoritative new edition of one of Virgina Woolf’s most challenging and subtle books, and the first of her books to be published posthumously.
  
• Features the text of the first English edition of Between the Acts, emended on the basis of a comparison of it with Woolf’s final typescript .
  
• Contains an introduction and extensive notes, which demonstrate that in writing the book, Woolf drew upon a capacious memory filled by a lifetime of reading, writing, listening and observing.
  
• Forms part of the prestigious Shakespeare Head Press series of Woolf's works.

Susan Dick is Professor of English at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. She has edited To the Lighthouse: The Original Holograph Draft (1982), The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf (1985/89) and To the Lighthouse (1992), and is the author of Virginia Woolf (1989).

Mary S. Millar, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, is a co-editor of Benjamin Disraeli's Letters, volumes III to VII (1987–2003).