An exhibit on Virginia Woolf titled “This Perpetual Fight: Love and Loss in Virginia Woolf’s Intimate Circle,” opens at New York’s Grolier Club with previously undisplayed Woolfiana on Tuesday, Sept. 16, and runs through Nov. 22.
The more than 200 exhibit items are drawn from a number of private collections and from the Smith College Library, the Theater Collection of Harvard University and the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. The ground floor gallery exhibit will include books, images, letters and other manuscript materials, some of which have never been exhibited in public.
The items on display pertain to Woolf, her parents, her husband, Leonard Woolf, and their friends and family. The exhibit will also be documented by a large format illustrated catalogue, which will be available for purchase onsite at the Grolier Club, 47 E. 60th St., and through University Press of New England.
Read more about the exhibit or contact the Grolier Club at 212-838-6690 or msmith@grolierclub.org for details.
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A reading of Eileen Atkins’s “Vita and Virginia,” drawn from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, will be held one night only, Oct. 6, 2008, at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th St., NYC.
At times warm, witty, cautious, jealous, pained, and loving, these letters show Woolf and Sackville-West as always human. Woolf will be read by two time Tony nominee Alison Fraser (currently on Broadway in “Gypsy”) and Vita by television star and Broadway veteran Carolyn McCormick (currently in “Equus” at the Broadhurst).
$18 tickets available at http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=VIT1
Student tickets $12 by emailing thisperpetualfight@gmail.com
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As a member of the Groleir Club I’m delighted to see the mention of our exhibition.
By the way, the first American performance of Freshwater will take place at the Grolier on Wednesday, 19 November, during the run of the exhibition. This is a stage reading, not a full production, and it is open to the public by paid reservation. For more info go to the website of one of the sponsors, the William Morris Society, at http://www.morrissociety.org.