ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the Virginia Woolf's 'Six Articles on London life' draw on the tradition of the London sketch. Throughout the six essays, Woolf focuses on various areas of London, describing them in detail and connecting them. Her aim is clearly not to provide 'a descriptive and historical account of the cities and boroughs that make up the Administrative county of London', as W. W. Hutchings, for instance, does in London Town, Past and Present. One can discover that the art of description gradually fades into the art of photography and the art of architecture, turning the texts into creative intermedial essays that both nod to the past of London and celebrate its modernity. Woolf's perception of consumerism serves as a corrective to the numerous advertisements that one could find in Good Housekeeping magazine in the 1930s. Woolf's art of description is here at its most skilful and 'brilliant', in her own words.
