W. L. Courtney concluded his review of Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" in the Daily Telegraph on 10 November 1922 with a connection to music: "In its tense, syncopated movements, its staccato impulsiveness, do you not discern the influence of jazz?" From what I know of Woolf's work on that novel, she was not influenced by jazz in particular or even music in general, but more by modernist painting. But in 1922, what novels could Courtney have identified as influenced by jazz? Perhaps he could have referred to F. Scott Fitzgerald's short-story collection "Tales of the Jazz Age", which was published in the United States one month before Woolf's novel came out. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 20 September 2025)