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Literary polemics come and go, sparking a season of anger and gossip, and then turning to dust. A handful survive their moment: Dr. Johnson’s demolition of Soame Jenyns, Hazlitt’s attack on Coleridge. But few literary polemics can have been so damaging, or so lasting in consequences, as Virginia Woolf’s 1924 essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” about the once widely read English novelists Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, and John Galsworthy. For several literary generations now, Woolf’s essay has been taken as the de-finitive word finishing off an old-fashioned school of fiction and thereby clearing the way for literary modernism.

Mr. J. Gordon Bennett (pg. 153-154). Rev. W. Ellis (pg. 154). Dean of Lincoln (pg. 154-155). Charles Lever (pg. 155-156). Dr. Norman Macleod (pg. 156-157). Colonel Sykes, M.P. (pg. 157-158).