The Voyage Out Part 29

bj William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), English novelist; Woolf's father's first wife, Harriet Marian, was Thackeray's daughter.

bk t.i.tles, respectively, of a novel (1847) by English author Emily Bronte and a play (1903) by English dramatist George Bernard Shaw.

bl From the Bible, Psalms 56:1, 5-6a and 58:6-7 (New Revised Standard Version).

bm Account by Greek historian Xenophon (c.430-c.352 B.C.) of a military expedition led by Cyrus the Younger of Persia, in which Xenophon partic.i.p.ated by leading the Greek retreat after the disastrous battle of Cunaxa.

bn t.i.tle of an Elizabethan prose romance (1578, 1580) by English writer John Lyly (1554?-1606).

bo Poem (1782) by William Cowper.

bp Fict.i.tious explorer.

bq English parks.

br Terence is reading from a fict.i.tious novel.

bs Religious house in London that later became bachelor lodgings for lawyers and other scholars.

bt Slang term for "paunch."

bu When Woolf was writing this novel (1905-1912), the Russian Revolution (1917) had not yet occurred.

bv Lines 45-50 of "A New Forest Ballad," by English clergyman and writer Charles Kingsley.