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INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION

1 Virginia Woolf, Moments of Being: Unpublished Autobiographical Writings, ed. Jeanne Schulkind, London, Chatto & Windus for Sussex University Press, 1976, pp. 173-4. For further commentary on this formative moment of sexual modernism see: Frank Mort and Lynda Nead, ‘Sexuality, Modernity and the Victorians’, Journal of Victorian Culture, 1996, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 118-30; Lucy Bland and Frank Mort, ‘Thinking Sex Historically’, in Lynne Segal (ed.), New Sexual Agendas, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1997, pp. 17-31.