The New York Public Library is celebrating Virginia Woolf with a three-day festival of lectures in October. They are free and open to the public.
Here is the schedule:
- Oct. 19, 4 p.m. – Jean Mills, “Goddesses and Ghosts: Virginia Woolf and Jane Ellen Harrison In Conversation”
- Oct. 20, 4 p.m. – Isaac Gerwirtz, “When Is a Printed Book as Good as a Manuscript?: The Proof Copy of A Room of One’s Own“
- Oct. 21, 4 p.m. – Anne Fernald, “On Traffic Lights and Full Stops: Editing Mrs. Dalloway
Mills and Fernald are scholars in residence at the New York Public Library’s Wertheim Study. Gerwirtz is curator of the library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
All three lectures will be held in the South Court Auditorium of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
The New York Public Library maintains two study centers in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building: the Frederick Lewis Allen Room and the Wertheim Study. Both are for qualified scholars needing intensive and long-term use of the collections of the library.
For more information, contact researchstudyrooms@nypl.org.
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