Abstract

It has not previously been noticed how many of the words and opinions of Nick Greene in Virginia Woolf's Orlando (1928), and those of his later incarnation Sir Nicholas Greene, derive from Logan Pearsall Smith's pamphlet The Prospects of Literature (Hogarth Press, 1927). This article outlines the similarities-Greene and Smith share opinions about the relation of the author to the marketplace, and share the ideal of la gloire-and discusses the origins of Smith's pamphlet in a disagreement with Woolf dating from 1924, when she first wrote for the London edition of Vogue.

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