Posted in Virginia Woolf on Thursday 13 May 2010| Leave a Comment »
The collection includes 11 items. Among them are paintings and ceramics by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. A bronze bell used to summon guests for meals is also for sale.
Read the story in the Antiques Trade Gazette. Visit the Gorringes website, where you can search for the names of Bell and Grant to see photos and details of their art for sale and read more about the collection.
Posted in 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, performance, Reading Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Woolf and the natural world, tagged 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf on Tuesday 11 May 2010| Leave a Comment »
The most recent is a staged reading called “Life in the Country: A Dramatic Reading for Five Voices,” by Roberta Palumbo of Holy Names University.
The 50-minute chamber play features dialogue created from the letters, diaries, and memoirs of Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dr. Octavia Wilberforce and Louie Mayer.
It will be performed by professional actors from Lexington, Ky., and is scheduled to follow Thursday’s opening reception. It will be on stage at Georgetown’s Lab Theatre, right across the street from the Art Gallery, where the reception will be held.
Get more details about the 2010 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Natural World, June 3-6, in the Thomas & King Leadership and Conference Center at Georgetown College in Georgetown, Ky.
Posted in Italy, Jan Morris, Travels with Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, tagged Jan Morris, Travels with Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf in Italy on Sunday 9 May 2010| 4 Comments »
She accompanied me to Ireland a few years ago, and we had such fun that we are traveling together again.
Woolf was a great European traveler. Of course she traveled around England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, but she also visited six other European countries. She spent time in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Spain and Greece, as well as Italy. She toured some of these countries more than once.
While in her twenties, she also made two trips to Turkey.
I got most of those facts from a wonderful book titled Travels with Virginia Woolf written by Jan Morris and first published in 1993. And it’s because of that book that I know whenever I am traveling in Woolf’s steps.
Morris scoured Woolf’s diaries and letters in preparation for writing her Woolf travelogue. Then she went one big step further. She visited some of Virginia’s favorite spots herself.
I expect to find Morris’s own observations most useful on my own Italian trip, for she has noted how the sights and scenes of present-day Italy do or don’t match up to what Woolf experienced during her seven trips to the country where she said she would “come to die.”
Right now, I have a photocopy of the 15-page “Italy” chapter in my carry-on bag. I plan to spend my eight-hour Alitalia flight highlighting the spots Woolf saw that I, too, will have a chance to see. I will let you know how they compare.
