Blogging Woolf

As usual, Bloomsbury and Virginia Woolf are in the news. Here are some links to recent stories in both print and online publications.

• “Jennie Rooney’s Top 10 Women Travellers in Fiction” – The Guardian’s confusing but interesting June 23 review of Jennie Rooney’s new novel, The Opposite of Falling, in which she “traces the steps of fiction’s most engaging female adventurers,” which includes Clarrisa’s interior journey in Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.
• “Tilda Swinton Gets a Haircut: I am Love” – Superficial and poorly written Huffington Post interview with Tilda Swinton about her new film, “I am Love,” shot in Italy, that also mentions this summer’s re-release of “Orlando.” And here is another, in which the writer is “gobsmacked” by Swinton’s appearance: “Tilda Swinton’s Alternative View,” published June 21 in the Sydney Morning Herald.
• “Bloomsbury in the Bluegrass” – Louisville, Kentucky’s Courier-Journal June 21 coverage of the 2010 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Natural World.
• “Why Does Bloomsbury Fascinate Us?” – An article in the summer issue of the Smith College Newsmith.
• “Happy Birthday to Anne Popham Bell” – A June 20 post on Robert Edsel’s The Monuments Men blog honoring Anne Olivier Popham Bell on her 94th birthday.
• “The Mill at Tidmarsh: Bohemian Days Leave a Rich Legacy” – A June 18 article in The Guardian about the former Bloomsbury Group home that is now on the market.
• “Artist Books Enrich University of Alberta’s ‘Treasure Room‘” – A June 10 article in the Edmonton Journal about the artists’ books collection at the University of Alberta Library. It makes mention of the first book that Virginia and Leonard Woolf created together — along with the reaction of scholars who view it for the first time.
• “Follow the Sea to St. Ives on This Prettiest of Trails” – The “Walk of the Month” from The Guardian‘s June 6 issue that provides details about walking Cornwall’s coast to the Godrevy lighthouse made famous by Woolf.
• “The Great Silence: Britain’s mourning and recovery in the wake of World War I” – A June 5 Seattle Times review of Juliet Nicolson’s new book, The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age.
• “National Book Auctions Goes To the Lighthouse” – A June 4 article in the Ithaca Journal about a book auction at which a 1927 first-edition of Woolf’s To the Lighthouse sold for $2,500.

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