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Spring 1985 • Vol. VII No. 2 • Book Reviews |

A Framework of Steel

The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume Five 1936-1941 edited by Anne Olivier Bell. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. 402 pages. $19.95.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf. Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska. New York: William Morrow, 1984. 448 pages. $17.95.

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