Nude readers of Woolf, you ask? Yes, and on stage no less. But that is just one Woolf sighting in a week of many. Links to forty-five of them are posted below, including the news that the last and final volume of Woolf essays — Volume six — is now out.
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The book reveals an astonishing range of artistic styles and techniques, while illustrations and engaging commentaries on sitters such as Charles Darwin and Virginia Woolf, shed light on the various ways in which people chose to be presented – wherever … - The Right Questions To Ask About Literature, Slate Magazine
Needless to say, the common reader (whom Garber condescends to as “a crucial ancillary part of the world of readers,” though she’s paraphrasing Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf and may dispute the “crucial” part) is not up to the task. … - Very fine verse of Heller, Holt, TheChronicleHerald.ca
Her voice sounds like Sylvia Plath mashed up with Virginia Woolf. A Gertrude Stein-like phrase, “the ins and outs of you and I,” is matched later by another, “Life without you is like life for worse / or better. And right now / I like better better. … - Milwaukee Opera Theatre: Virginia Woolf drowns, dolphin rescues Arion, ThirdCoast Digest. Art. News. Life
Lane sang Dominick Argento’s From the Diary of Virginia Woolf, a song cycle that won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Director (and MOT artistic director) Jill Anna Ponasik, Ben Krywosz and Tom Bartsch theatricalized it. Lane was not merely a singer, … - Huntington touts downtown walking tour with a 30-minute interactive iPhone play, Greenfield Daily Reporter
The Cabell Huntington Convention and Visitors Bureau teamed up with the Marshall University Theater Alliance to develop “Street Haunting,” a play loosely based on a Virginia Woolf essay about a stroll through London. Participants call a phone number, …
Read Woolf’s “Street Haunting” inspires iPlay on Blogging Woolf. - Walking with Socrates, Ottawa Citizen
She also puts on summer sessions at the University of Toronto with courses on topics from Virginia Woolf to Chekhov. Next year, Kirkland will start offering intergenerational trips with a trip to Italy. Barbara Zabel, of Ottawa, has taken four trips … - The Blitz: The British Under Attack, By Juliet Gardiner, The Independent
Using a wealth of eyewitness accounts by ordinary ARP wardens, nurses, local government officers and reports by Mass Observation, as well as more famous names such as JB Priestley and Virginia Woolf, Gardiner depicts the awful, nightly reality: the … Read “Woolf and war: Clarissa and the Blitz.” - Absolutely addictive, The Hindu
Virginia Woolf remarked that De Quincey never tells us the truth about himself but “only what he wishes us to know.” Opium being the central fact … - ‘Under a pillar of rain, thinking goodbye’, The Hindu
I wonder how Virginia Woolf would have viewed her, considering that Kamala did not actually possess ‘a room of her own’, having gifted away even her ancestral house in Thiruvananthapuram to Kerala Sahitya Akademi. For someone who began writing . . . - We put new library put to the test, Richmond and Twickenham Times
Lynn Barber and Virginia Woolf, who both lived in Richmond for a period, also had their work shunned. However, Twickenham MP Vince Cable must be chuffed his book The Storm made it through – although fellow MP Zac Goldsmith’s novel The Constant Economy … - Going back to the books I loved so well. . ., Irish Independent
And, as I suspect, would I find Virginia Woolf a hard slog and Aldous Huxley simply unreadable? That, of course, is the danger in rereading, not just in revealing how some books can become hopelessly dated but in showing how much you have changed, … - NY Public Library to host overnight treasure hunt, USA Today
Another object the gamers will find is Virginia Woolf’s walking stick. They won’t be able to hold it, “but when you are up close and you think that it was found floating in the lake where she drowned herself, it’s incredibly moving and powerful,” … - Virginia Woolf’s battle with her tea table training, Irish Times
ESSAYS: EVE PATTEN reviews The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 6: 1933 to 1941 Edited by Stuart N Clarke Chatto and Windus/The Hogarth Press, 736pp. £35 A GOOD ESSAY, Virginia Woolf wrote in 1922, “should draw its curtain around us”, which is a lovely … - Bonhams Offers Ring Belonging to Vita Sackville-West, Member of the Bohemian …. Art Daily
Having had relationships with her sister in law, journalists and novelists, in the 1920s Vita Sackville-West became romantically involved with the writer Virginia Woolf, who celebrated the love affair in her novel Orlando (1928). . . - £2.4m windfall for the Bloomsbury Group’s haven, Sussex Express
Set in an idyllic rural spot at the foot of the South Downs near Lewes, Charleston became a country retreat for a group of influential writers, artists and intellectuals that included Virginia Woolf, TS Elliot, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Lytton … - Movie review: ‘Cat Run,’ starring Paz Vega, Washington Post
But its real star is upscale actress Janet McTeer, doing a Helen Mirren as a posh hitwoman and torturer who identifies herself variously as Virginia Woolf or Emily Bronte. It seems that “Cat Run’” scripters Nick Ball and John Niven have read some books … - Border crossings: celebrity androgyny, Sydney Morning Herald
Tilda Swinton’s striking androgyny was cemented by her appearance in an acclaimed film adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando (right), in which she played a man who literally changes sex over the course of centuries. It’s difficult to tell whether the …
- Sara Ruddick, whose book set stage for philosophy of raising children, dies at 76, Bend Bulletin
At the New School, her work took on a feminist and political cast, strongly influenced by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, the Marxist pragmatist Juergen Habermas, the philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, and Virginia Woolf, whose works she taught. … - Virginia Woolf was a most tender writer of essays, Evening Standard
In the late autumn of 1939, “rattled and distracted” by the phoney war and worried about a decline in her income which would oblige her to return to literary journalism at a time when she felt a powerful distaste for it, Virginia Woolf sat down to … - Books: Review – Virginia Woolf, Life by Dr Jean Moorcroft, West End Extra
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WHEN Virginia Woolf committed suicide, 70 years ago this month, it made headline news. But few people could have predicted the fame that would follow. Her nephew, Cecil Woolf, 14 at the time, remembers that, though highly … Read “The Rumpus covers two Woolfs: Cecil and the Conference.” - BBC launches online archive of the Listener magazine, The Guardian
It was one of the most distinguished titles in British journalism for more than six decades, nurturing the careers of literary talent including Virginia Woolf, Phillip Larkin and TS Eliot, and home to what became regarded as the toughest cryptic … - Using THEM to see yourself clearly, CNN
So great are my powers of persuasion that I can go back in time, intercept Virginia Woolf as she heads out to drown herself, and help her resolve her issues so she wants to live, live, live! Also make her subsequent novels a little less weird! … - Orange UK to open Orange Inheritance collection, Wireless Federation
The titles are: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf; Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy; Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman; So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell; Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates; and Eugenie Grandet by Honore de Balzac … - Reflections in a queer eye, Washington Blade
Brian Hutton’s “X, Y and Zee” has a passing lesbian angle — bickering couple Taylor and Michael Cain, in a pale echo of “Virginia Woolf,” play a bickering married couple. He has an affair with a quiet, bisexual boutique shop owner. … - Cult Film Club – Orlando, Little White Lies (blog)
Sally Potter’s adaptation of a Virginia Woolf classic sees an immortal Tilda Swinton making mischief through the ages. Less is more in Hal Hartley’s characteristically droll and defiant love story. Alejandro Jodorowsky’s maniacal, surrealist vision … - Staff Pick: The Literary Life: A Scrapbook Almanac 1900 to 1950, The Millions
… No More Parades, and Arthur Waley’s translation of The Tale of Genji, among others; and that it was a productive year for Robert Graves, DH Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf, Yeats, and Edith Sitwell, all of whom published in multiple genres. … - Naked Girls Reading plan royal event, Digital Spy
Last week, Sophia St. Villier and colleagues Emerald Fontaine, Ruby Jones and Tallulah Tempest read from works by Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, William Blake, Virginia Woolf, Bruce Robinson, Russell Brand and others for An Ode to London. … - Far West, or “At the Extremity of the West”?, AsianWeek
England in the early 1900s, at the time of the Bloomsbury Circle, with Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes, was a far more interesting place than during the triumphant times of Queen Victoria. When I moved to San Francisco (at the beginning of the … - Chasing Down The Muse: Don’t forget to stop and play, Coastline Pilot
I hope you will all hear the call and remember the “great cathedral space which was childhood” (Virginia Woolf) just as the dozen-plus of us did this past weekend. It is exhilarating, refreshing, and exhausting in the very best sense of that word. … - £10m funding goes to heritage sites, Newmarket Journal
The tranquil rural setting of the barn inspired much of Bell and Grant’s work and was a country retreat for the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes. … - In defense of the public domain, Vermont Cynic
… The New York Times, “films by Alfred Hitchcock and Federico Fellini, books by CS Lewis and Virginia Woolf, symphonies by Prokofiev and Stravinsky and paintings by Picasso, including ‘Guernica,'” and gave publishers sole copyright rights over them. … - Today in History: Virginia Woolf Drowns Herself, Flavorwire
On March 28, 1941, Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the Ouse River near her home in Sussex. Her body was found on April 18th. Before she died, she left a note to her husband . . . - Review “Orlando”: Love Story Transcends Time, Gender and the Ruhls!, ChicagoNow (blog)
Court Theatre presents ORLANDO based on the novel by Virginia Woolf and adapted to the stage by Playwright Sarah Ruhl. Woolf wrote ORLANDO as a fantastical, love letter to, not her husband but, her mistress, Vita Sackville-West. In the Elizabethan era, … - Wilde women strip for nude classical readings on London stage, Evening Standard
… the women – who go by the stage names Emerald Fontaine, Rubyyy Jones, Tallulah Tempest and Sophia St Villier – undressed to read an audience of 50 extracts from classic novels by authors including Oscar Wilde, Evelyn Waugh and Virginia Woolf. … - Years Ago, Youngstown Vindicator
1941: Novelist and critic Virginia Woolf, 59, drowns herself near her home in Lewes, Sussex, England. 1969: The 34th president of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies in Washington, DC, at age 78. 1979: America’s worst commercial nuclear … - Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore, The Guardian
Coventry Patmore’s domestic epic, “The Angel in the House”, much admired in the first years after publication, ran aground on Virginia Woolf’s icy, post-Victorian wit, and was sunk by the banalities of 20th-century gender politics, taking Patmore’s … - Not Lost in Translation, The Claremont Institute
As evidence she cites a passage about Samuel Johnson in Virginia Woolf’s, A Room of One’s Own: In England, Virginia Woolf notes, women writers always engender hostility. Dr. Johnson compared them to “a dog walking on his hinder legs. … - In the News: When I Think of Japan, Street-Hunting with Virginia, New Yorker (blog)
What should we make of the obsession with the decline of the US and the rise of China? Four new books explore the American economy with China as a constant theme. It’s been a century since Virginia Woolf went “street haunting” on London’s Oxford Street … - Review: Re-Charged @ Soho Theatre, Londonist
With inventive theatrical twists worthy of Kneehigh Theatre and a script as sharp as the concealed weaponry they carry, the play comes across as a blaxploitation take on Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. The three plays that make up this year’s showcase are … - Snow, Shriver and Carluccio set for Kingston Readers’ Festival, Elmbridge Guardian
Kingston University will once again be hosting a series of Saturday morning seminars on topics ranging from Virginia Woolf to the world of theatre. School pupils will also have the opportunity to meet authors, including Ally Kennen and Don Calame, … - Searching for Role Models, CoolAvenues
Now lets just check a new list – Hanse Cronje, Rajan Pillai, Andrew Fastow, Bertie Webbers, Warren Anderson, Kenneth Lay, Jack Grub man, Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Kafka, Harshed Mehta… Rich and Famous, Bold and Beautiful – but hardly role models. … - Literary haunts: Virginia’s London walks, The Independent
Virginia Woolf walked London’s parks for inspiration, and to find solace from her dark moods. Seventy years after her great-aunt’s death, Emma Woolf argues that you can still find her restless spirit there. Oh, life, how I have dreaded you, oh, …
Read “Seventy years ago today.” - Influences | A. Rey Pamatmat, playwright, Louisville Courier-Journal
I love Virginia Woolf’s novels. The first one I ever read was “The Waves.” I like the way she writes about small moments and instants of life when the psychology surrounding them accumulates and builds into a whole story. … - Feminist movement -a revolution sans arms, Sri Lanka Guardian
There are Virginia Woolf’s A Room of one’s Own and Three Guineas – the latter displaying some original thinking in my view – and there is Simone de Beauvoir’s great polemical tract The Second Sex. The rest of feminist theory belongs to the field of … - Heritage sites get funding boost, BBC News
The country retreat was a favourite of the Bloomsbury group, a gathering of writers, artists and intellectuals whose members included Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes. Its £2.4m will go towards a new education and exhibition space. … Read “Charleston to get £2.4 million upgrade.”
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