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Leonard Woolf speaks to the camera

Posted in Leonard Woolf, tagged , on Monday 26 October 2015| 2 Comments »

This video, an interview with Leonard Woolf regarding Maynard Keynes, is making its way around social media. It is less than a minute long, but it’s still wonderful to see him on film speaking.

At one time, there was another video of Leonard posted on YouTube. In it, he spoke about Virginia and the Bloomsbury Group. That video has been taken down due to permission problems.

If you’d like to listen to more about Leonard, download the podcasts from the Leonard Woolf Symposium held in 2012 at the University of Oxford.

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And there she was. A wax works Virginia in a closet of her own

Posted in art, tagged , , on Sunday 25 October 2015| 1 Comment »

Eleanor Crook created a life-sized Virginia Woolf that was presented, fully dressed, inside a room of her own — a wooden wardrobe — on Oct. 21.

The finished wax work Woolf was placed in the foyer of the newly refurbished Virginia Woolf building at 22 Kingsway at King’s College, London. Woolf was a student at the former King’s Ladies’ Department where she took classes in Greek, Latin, history and German between 1897 and 1902.

To find out more about the unveiling, scroll down for the tweets posted on Twitter.

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Child’s Play | The Charleston Attic

Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Thursday 22 October 2015| Leave a Comment »

The Charleston Attic blog asks: Can art transport one back to childhood? Read on to find out how a discovery at Charleston helps answer the question.

This week in the gift we discovered a collection of childhood drawings by Angelica Garnett; immersed in their whimsical world of elaborately dressed dowagers, fugitive pets and fairy princesses.

Source: Child’s Play | The Charleston Attic

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Online journal includes French Woolf conference proceedings

Posted in Woolf resources, tagged , , on Wednesday 21 October 2015| Leave a Comment »

The proceedings of the 2013 conference of the French Virginia Woolf Society, Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes — with its theme of Outlanding Woolf — have just been published in the online journal Ebc (Etudes britanniques contemporaines).couv_ebc_48_2015_1-small275
This issue of Études britanniques contemporaines is divided into two sections that are both distinct and connected.
  • The first section— ‘Crossing into Otherness’ —turns to the poetics of crossing in contemporary English literature, in order to understand how the physical experience of ‘crossing into’ entails an ethical experience of alteration.
  • The second section — ‘Outlanding Woolf’  — follows up and inflects the theme by turning to the way Woolf invents a poetics of the ‘outlandish’ and is in turn displaced and transformed by her reception.

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Celebrating the centenary of The Voyage Out with a scarf

Posted in commodification, The Voyage Out, tagged , , on Tuesday 20 October 2015| Leave a Comment »

Artist Ruth Dent has created a handpainted scarf to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s first novel The Voyage Out.

You can purchase The Voyage Out Centenary Scarf online through her IndieGoGo campaign. Printed digitally on silk, only 100 are available.

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