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Help track Virginia Woolf in contemporary fiction

Posted in Alice Lowe, contemporary fiction, Woolf sightings, tagged , , on Monday 29 December 2008| 4 Comments »

magnifying-glassFor her latest research project, Alice Lowe of San Diego, Calif., is searching for references to Virginia Woolf in contemporary fiction.

While she says she finds them “with surprising frequency” while doing her own reading, she asks common readers and scholars everywhere to contact her directly to share a favorite sighting or a new discovery.

You can e-mail the reference, with the specific citation if possible, to Lowe at  alicelowe88@yahoo.com.

Feel free to share your find with  Blogging Woolf at bloggingwoolf@yahoo.com as well, and we will post it on our Woolf sightings page.

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Former Woolf haunt holding auction

Posted in London scene, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Sunday 28 December 2008| Leave a Comment »

cafe_royal_entranceA 140-year-old Piccadilly cafe that was once the haunt of Virginia Woolf and other notable individuals is selling off its collection of trinkets and furniture to make way for a new hotel, according to The New Scotsman.
 
Established in 1865, the Café Royal hosted Oscar Wilde, Winston Churchill and others. It was also frequented by Princess Diana, Elizabeth Taylor and Muhammad Ali in more recent times.
A hotel will be built at the Regent Street location by Israeli developer the de Alrov Group.

The sale of items will take place Jan. 20, at Bonhams in Knightsbridge.

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Duke library puts digital Bloomsbury materials online

Posted in art exhibits, Bloomsbury, Roger Fry, tagged , , , on Saturday 20 December 2008| 2 Comments »

kew-gardensDuke University Library has published a small collection of Bloomsbury Group-related materials in Manuscripts and Woodcuts: Visions and Designs from Bloomsbury.

The materials feature a handwritten, manuscript draft of Elizabeth and Essex by Lytton Strachey and a collection of woodcut illustrations by Robert Fry, as well as letters and book covers, according to Duke’s Digital Collections Blog.

The effort accompanies a Duke University Libraries exhibit on the Bloomsbury Group entitled “‘How Full of Life Those Days Seemed’: New Approaches to Art, Literature, Sexuality, and Society in Bloomsbury.”

The exhibit is part of a year-long celebration at Duke, Vision and Design: A Year of Bloomsbury. Read more on Blogging Woolf.

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Alison Light reviews Bloomsbury Ballerina

Posted in Alison Light, Bloomsbury, John Maynard Keynes, Lydia Lopokova, tagged , , , on Monday 15 December 2008| 1 Comment »

Bloomsbury BallerinaAlison Light has written a charming and lively review of  Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs. John Maynard Keynes for the London Review of Books.

The biography of the lucky Russian ballerina who swept John Maynard Keynes off his feet and raised the hackles of other Bloomsburies, was written by Judith Mackrell, dance critic for the Guardian.

Lopokova was a protege supported by the tsar at the age of nine and a member of the Ballets Russes when she danced her way to London in 1918 and into Keynes’s heart.

You can read “Lady Talky,” Light’s review, here.

Read more about Mackrell’s biography of Lopokova on Blogging Woolf.

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Non-Woolfian news note: Joyce, Yeats docs sell high

Posted in Virginia Woolf on Saturday 13 December 2008| Leave a Comment »

Joyce Plaque DublinThis bit of news isn’t about Virginia Woolf, but it is interesting nonetheless. According to the Irish Times, documents written by James Joyce and W.B. Yeats were sold for almost €20,000, or $26,694, on Dec. 11.

The documents, which were sold at auction at Bloomsbury in London, included letters written by Joyce and Yeats from the collections of Cecil and Desmond Harmsworth.

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Read more about Joyce and Woolf on Blogging Woolf.

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