Let everyone make h[er]self an amateur —Clive Bell, Art, 1920 [1] Reading has changed the world and continues to change it. —Virginia Woolf, “The Love of Reading,” 1931 [2] Virginia Woolf’s memoirs resonate richly with seating, beginning with the rocking chair from which she heard her father drop books to the floor at Hyde Park Gate. [3] Leslie Stephen had “written all his books lying sunk in that deep rocking chair,” Woolf would recall in the essay “A Sketch of the Past,” his feet clear of the...