Monday or Tuesday is a 1921

1921 in literature

The year 1921 in literature involved some significant events and new books.-New books:*Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan the Terrible*James Branch Cabell – Figures of Earth*Hall Caine – The Master of Man*Willa Cather – Alexander's Bridge...

 short story collection by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century....

 published by The Hogarth Press

Hogarth Press

The Hogarth Press was founded in 1917 by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. It was named after their house in Richmond, in which they began hand-printing books....

. 1000 copies were printed with four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury group, and the sister of Virginia Woolf.- Biography and art :...

. Leonard Woolf

Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf was an English political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.-Early life:...

 called it one of the worst printed books ever published because of the typographical mistakes in it.. Most mistakes were corrected for the US edition published by Harcourt Brace. It contained eight stories:

• "A Haunted House"
• "A Society"
• "Monday or Tuesday"
• "An Unwritten Novel" - previously appeared in the London Mercury
  London Mercury
  The London Mercury was the name of several periodicals published in London from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. The earliest was a newspaper that appeared during the Exclusion Bill crisis; it lasted only 56 issues...
  
  in 1920
• "The String Quartet"
• "Blue & Green"
• "Kew Gardens
  Kew Gardens (short story)
  Kew Gardens is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf.It was first published privately in 1919, then more widely in 1921 in the collection Monday or Tuesday, and subsequently in the posthumous collection A Haunted House...
  
  " previously published separately
• "The Mark on the Wall" - previously appeared in Two Stories (1917)

Six of the stories were later published by Leonard Woolf in the posthumous collection A Haunted House, those excluded were "A Society" and "Blue & Green".

Title

In her 1919 work Modern Fiction, Virginia Woolf explains her new approach to writing :

Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday

This last phrase "the life of Monday or Tuesday", is what Woolf believed to be at the core of fiction; and from it came the title of this, her first short story collection, and the only selection she published herself.

External links

• Online Text
• Monday or Tuesday - Modernism Lab Essays