Treasures of The New York Public LibraryVirginia Woolf s NotebooksA modernist and feminist pioneer, Virginia Woolf (1882 1941) carved out new territory for artists, particularly women writers. She wrote with sensitivity and insight about the confusion, mystery and uncertainty of everyday life. Woolf s 1931 novel The Waves, originally drafted in a series of seven notebooks including those reproduced here, is among her best and most experimental works and is made up of soliloquies spoken by the six main characters. Today, these seven notebooks are a part of The New York Public Library s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature and are featured in the new Polonsky Exhibition of The New York Public Library Treasures. We are honoured to partner with the Library to bring Woolf s The Waves notebooks to our collection.