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Bloomsbury home Tidmarsh for sale

Posted in Bloomsbury, Lytton Strachey, place, tagged on Sunday 17 April 2011| 1 Comment »

Got a cool £1.9m?

If so, you can buy a home in County Berkshire once used by the Bloomsbury Group.

Known among Woolfians as Tidmarsh,The Mill House  has been on the market since last summer. The historic Tudor property dates in part back to the 13th century, but the main house is thought to have been built around 1600.

It was the residence of artist Dora Carrington and author Lytton Strachey from 1917-1924. Their rent was £52 a year for a three-year lease.

During their years there, the couple was visited by well known fellow members of the group, including Virginia Woolf and Maynard Keynes.

Carrington’s painting of the home illustrates the front cover of the 1970 edition of Carrington: Letters and Extracts From Her Diary, edited by David Garnett.

The current owners, who have lived on the property on the River Pang since the mid-1980s, say they still get visits from admirers of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Review: A Good Day: Love, Death and VW

Posted in play, reviews, Stuart Clarke, tagged , on Sunday 17 April 2011| Leave a Comment »

It’s over now, but if you had the opportunity to see A Good Day: Love, Death and Virginia Woolf on stage at the Royal Northern College of Music Studio Theater in Manchester, England, it seems likely you would have given it a good rating.

Remotegoat did. The UK site gave the play four stars.

Reviewer Frank Hill’s overwhelmingly positive response can be summed up by this statement: “A Good Day tackles a difficult subject, but with a strong cast and sensitive direction from Helen Perry this proved to be a reflective and thoughtful evening at the theatre, which, like the author’s work itself, raises as many questions as it answers.”

Stuart N. Clarke, regular poster to the VW Listserv, keeper of an extensive Woolf and Bloomsbury bibliography, and editor of volumes five and six of The Essays of Virginia Woolf, was in the audience. In an early morning message to the list, he complimented the poetic quality of the script and the fact that it presented Woolf as a great writer.

The new play, described as a dramatic love story that gives a mesmerising and compelling view of Woolf’s final hours, according to producers Brian M Clarke and Tom Elliott, was produced in honor of the 70th anniversary of Woolf’s death.

The play had a short run, April 14-16, and was promoted by Beat Productions.

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Study of newly discovered proof copy of Room featured in WSA

Posted in A Room of One's Own, Berg Collection, books, tagged , , , on Saturday 16 April 2011| Leave a Comment »

Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 17, will be published next month. It will feature information about the newly discovered proof copy of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.

Dr. Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library, has an article in the volume that discusses the variations between the proof copy and the first edition of Woolf’s feminist classic. An appendix of the variations is also included in the volume.

Details of the contents and the opportunity to place an early order at the discounted price of $32 may be found at the Pace UP website.

ISBN 978-1-935625-05-6
2011
Paper
266 Pages

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Woolf sightings:From fashion advice to writers’ fascinations

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged on Monday 11 April 2011| Leave a Comment »

The past week saw a bit of a slowdown in the rush of Woolf sightings that coincided with the 70th anniversary of her death, as well as the death of Elizabeth Taylor of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? fame. Here are 25 Woolf sightings spotted by Google in the past eight days.

  1. Make Room, Milkwood gallery – review, The Guardian
    Supported by The Leverhulme Trust In an age of  austerity, Virginia Woolf’s words still ring true under the spotlights of  Milkwood Gallery’s latest exhibition Make Room. Yes, an artist simply must have  ‘a room of one’s own’ but it’s certainly practical …
  2. When What You Wear Says It All: Book Love as Fashion Accessory, Huffington Post (blog)
    For Sunday events, I’ll opt for a shirtwaist dress and a favorite author on my chest, choosing perhaps a well-known image of Virginia Woolf from Sujette. Friday nights, I prefer my accessories to swing. A black t-shirt provides perfect background to … Read “Five fashionable views of Virginia.”
  3. No one is sacrosant, Telegraph.co.uk
    The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham featured Virginia Woolf writing Mrs Dalloway and committing suicide. EL Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) contained a lavish assortment of “real characters” including Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Sigmund Freud. …
  4. Magical elements: an interview with Uršula Kovalyk, Czech Position (blog)
    In any case, I’ve always been fascinated by writers like GGMárquez, Isabel Allende, Virginia Woolf, that had magical elements in their work. I really dislike talking about my writing style though, because I’m not a literary theorist and honestly, …
  5. MENTAL  ILLNESS IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF, Daily Mirror
    Author Virginia Woolf was manic depressive and so was England’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. John Nash who won the Nobel Prize for Mathematics was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. So there is nothing to be ashamed of in becoming mentally … (more…)

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Charleston to get £2.4 million upgrade

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, tagged on Monday 4 April 2011| 2 Comments »

Charleston Farmhouse will be getting an upgrade to the tune of £2.4 million.

Charleston Farmhouse

The money comes from the Heritage Lottery Fund and is part of £10 million in funding for a variety of projects, including those at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cardigan Castle, Ceredigion and the Royal Crescent, as well as Charleston.

Charleston, located in Lewes and the country home of  artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, will use its funds to redevelop the building and museum into a new education and exhibition space for its thousands of annual visitors.

The expansion and restoration will include:

  • Restoration of the Charleston Barn
  • Recreation of the granary that stood on the site until the 1970s
  • Creation of new buildings in a hidden courtyard behind the barn
  • Creation of an auditorium, a new studio learning space, and storage for the Charleston Trust’s reserve collection of 8,000 works
  • An expanded café and shop.
  • A new access route and less obtrusive car park
  • Restoration of existing buildings, which will return Charleston to the way it looked in the 1950s.

Virginia Nicholson, granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, said: “I have known and loved this house and its surrounding buildings for more than 50 years. I played on the farm as a child, and I am delighted to think that Charleston has such an exciting future in the 21st century.”

Charleston also served as a country retreat for the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the Bloomsbury Group, including Leonard andVirginia Woolf, whose country place, Monk’s House, was located nearby.

 

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