Anyone who attended Woolf and the City had the opportunity to meet Ruth Gruber, the amazing journalist and photographer who met Virginia and Leonard Woolf back in the 1930s. Gruber was also ahead of her time when she wrote Virginia Woolf: The Will to Create as a Woman. Scroll down to #22 to read about her milestone 100th birthday.
Ruth Gruber at Woolf and the City in 2009 wearing the commemorative conference t-shirt
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Virginia Woolf, an English writer who is regarded as a leading modernist literary figure of the last century, said, “On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.” At the center of many bridge agonies sits an unobservant player … - Secretly Seeking Solitude: A Woman’s Need for Time Alone, Huffington Post (blog)
As Dr. Phil says, “Ya gotta name it to claim it,” and Virginia Woolf most certainly did. Her speeches that turned into the seminal and necessary essay A Room of One’s Own codified a woman’s need for time to herself. She brought the idea to the surface … - Thou shall not kill … except in this case, easttennessean.com (subscription)
Virginia Woolf has a way with words. Over 70 years after her death, there remains an intense relevance in her work. One of Woolf’s best essays, entitled “Professions for Women,” references the heroine of a rather sexist narrative poem, The Angel in the … - The Truth Behind Tim Hudak’s Homophobic Flyers, DigitalJournal.com (press release)
The page cited in the PC flyer is a list of “Significant International” gay and lesbian individuals, including Ellen Degeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, Virginia Woolf and Harvey Milk. PC Claim: “Reclaim Valentine’s Day and celebrate sexual diversity [with a] … - Something brewing beneath transphobic ads in Ontario, rabble.ca (blog)
As for cross-dressing, the… page cited in the PC flyer is a list of ‘Significant International’ gay and lesbian individuals, including Ellen Degeneres, Rosie O’Donnell, Virginia Woolf and Harvey Milk.” The flyer (like McVety’s ad) is a litany of … - The Genius of Free Governments, Huffington Post (blog)
… distributors that listed early films of Fellini and Hitchcock have had to delete them from their catalogs; bookstores that offered cheap editions of Joseph Conrad, George Orwell, HG Wells, and Virginia Woolf have pulled them from the shelves. … - The Sharpest Beach Bums You’ll Ever Meet, Brooklyn Rail
It’s not that Wark’s lack of a compelling narrative structure makes slogging through the book an occasionally arduous experience; writers like Virginia Woolf can dispense of narrative completely and still craft engrossing literature. … - PadGadget Weekly App Series – Apps for Outdoors Experience, PadGadget
This app includes such tales as “A Haunted House” by Virginia Woolf, “The Door in the Wall” by HG Wells and “The Pit and the Pendulum” by Edgar Allen Poe. This app really offers a great collection of short stories that will keep everyone entertained on … - Johanna Skibsrud: The writer, the prize, the year after, Globe and Mail
Skibsrud names Virginia Woolf’s most challenging novel, The Waves, as a major source of inspiration for her own work,
which likewise demands concentration from readers. “A lot of times people don’t want to pay that attention,” she said. “I don’t know. … - The Future of Feminism by Sylvia Walby, Bookslut
The Future of Feminism will not win any prose awards, and it does seem time for a reminder that Virginia Woolf penned analytic and polemic texts that were all the stronger for their style. Nonetheless, Walby avoids the opacity of most academic prose, … - The hipster rules, OK?, Times LIVE
They claim to like writers with loaded names such as Virginia Woolf, Voltaire and Chomsky. They drink beer, are coffee connoisseurs, smoke Lucky Strike or Camel, don’t use deodorant, listen to bands that nobody has ever heard of. … - Literature and food join forces at İstanbul’s 3rd Tanpınar fest, Today’s Zaman
British author and self-confessed childhood bookworm Mark Crick’s witty work “Kafka’s Soup, A History of World Literature,” delivers 14 recipes in the writing styles of famous writers from Virginia Woolf to Jane Austen. Germany’s Jasmin Ramadan also … - Kidman, Watts to record bedtime stories, Sydney Morning Herald
Kidman will read Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse while Watts will read Summer by Edith Wharton. Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in The Hours. Hollywood stars Samuel L Jackson, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Colin Firth, Meg Ryan, … - Kate Winslet And Other Stars Lend Their Voices to Audible Books, Shockya.com
The company has enlisted the help of some well-known voices to record such novels as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Being There from novelist Jerzey Kosinski, and To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Per The Hollywood Reporter, … - Audiobooks with star appeal, xmediaonline – Exeposé
Virginia Woolf’s famous Twentieth Century novels are amongst those being recorded. Kidman, who portrayed Woolf in the Oscar winning film The Hours, will be reading the 1927 novel To the Lighthouse while Annette Bening is recording Mrs Dalloway which … - Celebrities lend voices to bedtime stories, Silentnight Beds
Nicole Kidman will be responsible for reading Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, as Naomi Watts records Summer by Edith Wharton. It recently emerged that the Jurys Inn chain of hotels was launching an e-book reader loan service for the convenience of … - Hollywood stars give voice to their favourite novels in audiobook boom, The Guardian
STARRING ROLES Some of the Hollywood actors confirmed to take part in the series: Annette Bening Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Jennifer Connelly The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles Colin Firth The End of the Affair by Graham Greene Samuel L Jackson A … - Guest opinion, Aspen Times
We examined a variety of social issues raised by the voices of Virginia Woolf, Rachel Carson and Martin Luther King. We honestly conversed about our own journeys as we opened up the writings of contemporary authors Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and … - In Supreme Court Argument, a Rock Legend Plays a Role, New York Times
The affected works included films by Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini, books by CS Lewis and Virginia Woolf, symphonies by Prokofiev and Stravinsky and paintings by Picasso. Jimi Hendrix joins a growing list of artists cited by the court. .. - US defends copyright law for famous foreign works, Jerusalem Post
… adopted by Congress to comply with an international treaty, that restored copyright protection to foreign works, including films by Alfred Hitchcock, paintings by Picasso, symphonies by Stravinsky and books by CS Lewis and Virginia Woolf. … - The symphony and the novel – a harmonious couple?, The Guardian
Certainly, western literature had its own sustained modernist moment, but while Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and others may have responded with fidelity to the death of the old gods by fashioning a prose fiction that dealt with the phenomenon of … - The Human Spirit: Ruth Gruber turns 100, Jerusalem Post
Her thesis was about the feminism of a then little-known British writer: Virginia Woolf. In Germany, she loved das Land der Dichter und Denker, the land of poets and thinkers, but abhorred the dark side. An inborn reporter, she attended a Hitler rally … - Manifestations of modernity the new era and transitional societies, NL-Aid
Seminal Bloomsbury-member Virginia Woolf expressed the hope at the beginning of the Twentieth century that ‘[a] political and social movement that give hope (……)’ would emerge. Indeed said epistemic community materialized, fostering and nurturing … - Send Men The Bill — They Made The Mess, Hartford Courant
Virginia Woolf once wrote, “As a woman, I have no country … as a woman, my country is the whole world.” Unlike Woolf, I do have a country. One of which I am very proud. One that I now feel represents me and treats me like a citizen, something I think … - How to stay married, Macleans.ca
In 1929, Virginia Woolf famously wrote of the need for women to have “money and a room of one’s own” to create art. In 1954, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles Lindbergh, wrote Gift From the Sea on a summer retreat from her husband and children, … - Op-ed: Chapter 11: Borders may be bankrupt, but your bookshelf need not suffer …, The Maine Campus
At least now overworked college students and middle-aged divorcees dying to read Virginia Woolf will be forced to visit their local used bookstores. Used bookstores are romantic, fun and most of all, cheap. Really, Borders closing their doors is just a … - Virginia Woolf, Financial Times
In part because of its brevity, Alexandra Harris’s study of Virginia Woolf brings home how late in life she wrote her
well-known works. In rapidly scanning the years, Harris emphasises how many were lost to self-doubt and illness, but also how only … - Tip Sheet for the Week of October 10, 2011: For Pleasure, Publishers Weekly
In 1928, Virginia Woolf announced her intentions in her journal to take a “writer’s holiday,” a break from the heavy business of midwifing modernism to write something swift and light and pleasurable. Of course, “swift, light, … - Film: To the Lighthouse, Varsity Online
by India Ross Despite the hewing of the film industry with this blunt axe of a contention, in the case of her modernist masterpiece, To the Lighthouse, and its lame 1983 made-for-TV adaptation, Virginia Woolf was right on the money. … - Go Go Gogi, Tehelka
If you set up a parody of Virginia Woolf’s reportedly fraught relationship with her cook, this scene would be it. Gogi has no interest in cooking. She wasn’t brought up to think that she had to fake a love for domesticity in the way Woolf was. … - Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest by Wade …, The Guardian
Sir Leslie Stephen, for example, the impeccably intellectual editor of the Dictionary of National Biography and father of Virginia Woolf, was an early president of the Alpine Club and wrote Peaks, Passes and Glaciers alongside The Science of Ethics. … - Alison Bechdel, A.V. Club Chicago
There’s also some Virginia Woolf and some other literary stuff, but mostly the quotations in this book are about psychoanalysis. AVC: Your childhood journals played a huge role in Fun Home. Are they also a big part of Are You My Mother? … - Review by Rudy Oldeschulte, Metapsychology
Virginia Woolf Examining oneself through other individual’s life stories, that is, through biography or memoir, or through conversations that one is engaged in during the day or evening – and re-examining those glimpses of our experience in our quiet … - Court Theatre Presents Denis O’Hare and Lisa Peterson’s An Iliad 11/10-12/11, Broadway World
Lisa Peterson (Co-Playwright) directed The Model Apartment by Donald Margulies, Slavs! by Tony Kushner, Traps and Light Shining in Buckinghamshire by Caryl Churchill (Obie Award for Direction), The Waves adapted from Virginia Woolf (two Drama Desk .. - Police and Poetry, The Atlantic
“So life is simply from minute to minute of horror,” he wrote to Virginia Woolf. For the most part, he gave up trying to write poetry. “It is no use squeezing a dry sponge and it is no use trying to work a tired and distracted mind,” he wrote Gilbert … - BP Learned Mission, Antiques and the Arts Online
… general fiction (some signed), biography (some signed), works in Hebrew, fiction by Twain, Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf, HG Wells, Sherwood Anderson, and others, travel and adventure, poetry (some signed), limited editions, and children’s literature. … - Everywhere Man, The Atlantic
… is said by the editor and translator of the volume, Laird M. Easton, to be one of the greatest ever written, “comparable in its stature to those of Samuel Pepys, André Gide, Henri Frédéric Amiel, Beatrice Webb, or Virginia Woolf. … - ANONYMOUS Character Card #2- Vanessa Redgrave/ Joley Richardson as Queen Elizabeth, Broadway World
… Marleen Gorris’ Mrs. Dalloway (adapted from the Virginia Woolf novel by Eileen Atkins); her son Carlo Nero’s “The Fever” for HBO Films; Roger Michell’s Venus; Lajos Koltai’s Evening; and, in 2008, Atonement, an Oscar® nominee for Best Picture. … - Let There Be Light: The TFT Review of The Luminist by David Rocklin, The Faster Times (blog)
One these innovators, Julia Margaret Cameron, spent her life developing techniques for taking soft-focus portraits, and her surviving prints include an image of her niece, Julia Prinsep Jackson, mother of Virginia Woolf. But that isn’t Julia Margaret … - Review: Evanesence runs gloom into the ground on new album, Reuters
Maybe Lee is suffering through one of the most tumultuous marriages this side of “Virginia Woolf,” or perhaps she’s still drawing emotional fuel from her feud with the disgruntled former band members who reassembled as We Are the Fallen. … - Read the reviews: “Always, Patsy Cline,” “Sugar,” “The Laramie Project” and …, Naples Daily News (blog)
And we do it all again in sixteen days – “Later Life,” “Virginia Woolf,” “Handle With Care” and “Rumors.” There’s been a lot of debate over the reviews. That’s good. You (actors, directors, the general public) are always free to contact me. … - And Now Some New Music From the Ladies: Feist, Bjork and More, Autostraddle
The first single release “What the Water Gave Me” references a Frida Kahlo painting, Virginia Woolf and Greek mythology and with that adorable goofy dancing in the video, WHAT MORE DO YOU NEED TO KNOW! Second single “Shake It Out” is stunning, … - Readers’ tips: literary locations, Travel Agent
Bedbury Lane, Freshwater Bay, 01983 752500, farringford.co.uk Esmeballard Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives Though Virginia Woolf set her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse in the Hebrides, it was inspired by childhood holidays at St Ives in Cornwall – pure white … - The Old Wives’ Tale (Modern Library #87), Reluctant Habits
In 1923, Virginia Woolf got nasty with an essay entitled “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown”: “he is trying to hypnotize us into the belief that, because he has made a house, there must be a person living there.” And many seemed to believe her. … - About That “Last Chance” Written in the Sky Last Night, Bowery Boogie (blog)
“When, in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, a crowd gathers to piece together skywriting, the spectacle unites disparate groups, as they cluster together to find meaning in the urban landscape. I am looking for folks to become a part of it by taking … - Women’s emancipation started with 1911, China Daily
By Li Yinhe (China Daily) In A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf, known for her biting criticism of gender discrimination, describes how a woman like her was denied entry into a university library without the supervision of a man. … - Depp To Produce Biopic Of Dr. Seuss, Lez Get Real
Very few writers lead lives interesting enough to warrant a biographical feature film, unless they suffer from bouts of depression and kill themselves like Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf, or harbor unnatural thoughts about small children like Charles … - The great disconnect of social media, The Coloradoan
I packed up some things I didn’t really need like a curling iron and some Virginia Woolf books and I left some things I really did need like my friends and family. Instead of calling every day or week, I contented myself with learning about their lives … - Claire Black: ‘Virginia Woolf and Zadie Smith got it right when they said the …, Scotsman
Virginia Woolf (and Zadie Smith for that matter), got it right when they said the novel is for “grown-ups”. It really is. Back in 1992, I wouldn’t have understood Dorothea Brooke’s transformation through experience because, frankly, I didn’t have very … - Green; it’s not breezy, Bay View Compass
Takal’s Genevieve is very much like a heroine of a Virginia Woolf story. She’s fragile, neurotic, and her fine intelligence fails to protect her from her perverse imagination. In an interview with Amarelle Wenkert, Takal said she wrote Green “literally … - The Stranger’s Child by Allan Hollinghurst, Toronto Star
The novel is rich in allusions to works as diverse as Brideshead Revisited, EM Forster’s The Longest Road, and To the Lighthouse (Cecil is loosely based on Bloomsbury Group member and friend of Virginia Woolf’s Rupert Brooke), as well as more … - Why IKEA’s ‘Manland’ is Swedish for emasculated baby-men, Globe and Mail
In the essay A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf wrote of the necessity of privacy and money for a truly fulfilling creative life – each tough to come by for women of her time. She described walking past a library at Oxford in contemplation: “I thought …
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