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- South Oxford Space Takes Virginia Woolf to Manhattan, New York Times (blog)
Adapted from the novel “Mrs. Dalloway” by Virginia Woolf, “Septimus and Clarissa” is written by award-winning playwright Ellen McLaughlin and directed by Ripe Time’s artistic director with an original score by composer Gina Leishman. .. Read Woolf inspires two new stage plays. - A luxury yurt room at Priory Bay Hotel on the Isle of Wight, UK., Globe and Mail
… Funnel Ferry with three pink stretch Hummers carrying 30 women including Jade Jagger, Sadie Frost, Samantha Morton and Daphne Guinness – a far cry from the staid and stoic solitude Lord Tennyson and Virginia Woolf once sought on this peaceful isle. …
- The best American nonrequired buying, C-Ville Weekly
There’re tales about how he foolishly sold two signed Virginia Woolf’s that he’d bought from a blind man in Manhattan, stories about browsing for books with his Saint Bernard, the one about how Lawrence Ferlinghetti came in and said, “It’s an honor to … - A bodice ripper without the bodice, Stuff.co.nz (blog)
This means the fridge has played home to everything thing from Darwin to Ian Wishart, Judy Blume to Virginia Woolf. Naturally The Bible has made an appearance and that other tome of spiritual guidance The Secret. And of course, it’s not a party without .. - REVIEW: A Book of Secrets: Illegitimate Daughters, Absent Fathers, Macleans.ca
An author, Trefusis is better remembered as the inspiration behind the Sasha character in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and the lover of poet Vita Sackville-West. Their intense affair, which included stints of abandoning their husbands to travel as a …
- Vilenica Laureate Says Artists Without Inspiration Should Stay Silent, STA – Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija (subscription)
Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Francois Villon, Rimbaud, Virginia Woolf, Gombrowicz, Edgar Allan Poe, Mishima and Byron, are only a few whose lives were anything but boring, Cartarescu said. “Cioran loved paradoxes and said only things that nobody expected him …
- Was Keynes ‘Keynesian’? Hardly, MiamiHerald.com
Without him we may not have the novels of EM Forster and Virginia Woolf, nor the artworks of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. Keynes also had an eye for a bargain. Seeing a collection of impressionist paintings for sale in Paris, he persuaded … - Baby’s Long, Long Way, TheaterJones Performing Arts News in North Texas
Virginia Woolf called her masterpiece Middlemarch, “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people,” and Emily Dickenson wrote, “What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of glory?” What challenges do you face as a modern actress in … - Sandman Meditations – Brief Lives: Chapter 9, Boomtron.com
Brief Lives is a graphic novel in the way that Virginia Woolf’s poetically-structured The Waves is an ungraphic novel. Actually, there’s more straightforward narrative in Brief Lives than in The Waves, so perhaps my point is pointless, but I’m going to … - god bless liz lochhead, oran mor, glasgow, Herald Scotland
It happened to Alice B Toklas and Virginia Woolf, and now, on the eve of a revival of her 1987 play, Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Scotland’s Makar receives similar treatment in Martin McCardie’s new play. As you might imagine, … - The Rev. Robert Lawrence giving away late wife’s book collection, Fall River Herald News
Virginia Woolf’s “To The Lighthouse.” The English poet Keats. In her travels, she wrote about Mickey Mouse being perhaps the most recognizable animal figure in the world and about how people respond to mounted policemen. John Dos Passos. CS Forester. ..
- I won’t let anyone spoil my paradise, Irish Independent
Virginia Woolf thought every woman should have “money and a room of one’s own”. Lucca is my room. Much as I love my Mr C, I have spent much of my life living alone and sometimes I crave solitude. I hadn’t been in Lucca alone since we met. … - How Long Has the Socialist Movement Been Going On?, The New American
… great playwright; HG Wells, the author of The Open Conspiracy; Annie Besant, the Theosophist occultist; Graham Wallas, author of The Great Society; Leonard and Virginia Woolf, eminent writers; and Ramsay MacDonald, organizer of the Labour Party. … - SB 48: California’s FAIR Education Act Is This Year’s Prop 8. Is It DOA?, The New Civil Rights Movement
… and the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the FAIR Education Act ensures that students in California will be taught about the many contributions made to America by LGBT Americans such as Harvey Milk, James Baldwin, Virginia Woolf and Del Martin. …
- Festival faceoff: Cronenberg and Polley top poll, Toronto.com
Albert Nobbs: “This brilliant recipe of gender bending is ripped from the pages of Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf . . . You know this is going to be special when the same director has given us priceless episodes of The Sopranos and Six Feet Under. - Emeli Sandé and the women making darkside pop, The Guardian
Even Florence Welch’s new single, What the Water Gave Me, alludes to the suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf, a favourite author of both Sandé and La Grange, and takes its title from a painting by Frida Kahlo … - It’s not easy being Greene, Los Angeles Times
He became better known as a character, in work by other authors such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, than for his own writing. His bad example provides a warning against six of the seven deadly sins. But it also provides a sense of perspective. … - Literary Late Bloomers, Huffington Post
Virginia Woolf published Mrs. Dalloway at 43, and To the Lighthouse at 45. More recently, Saul Bellow published Mr. Sammler’s Planet at 55, and Humboldt’s Gift at 60. Philip Roth published American Pastoral at 64, and John Updike, The Witches of … - The Go-Between at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Yorkshire Evening Post
They’d just done Virginia Woolf and when they were in Oxford they weren’t being too pestered as they usually were. “Anyway, we were working on a sound recording of the production one night and it was on the eve of my 22nd birthday so, … - Old Boys Club, The Smart Set
… getting out a glue stick and pasting some women into History of Art? Every five to 10 years, someone tries to establish a place for Mina Loy in the canon of modernist literature, next to TS Eliot, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. … - Guest Post: The Secret Life of Words – in London, Anglotopia.net
The most obvious group of authors associated with Bloomsbury is The Bloomsbury Group –Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Virginia’s sister Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey etc… They used to live there and attract visits from their friends, … - Safely Above the New Orleans Parade, New York Times
More than eight decades ago, Virginia Woolf said that for a woman to write, she needs a room of her own, her symbol for physical space, money and freedom from interruption. Culture is not the only reason such a room eludes women’s grasp; their instinct … - If only Kate had stuck to a nice iceberg lettuce, Daily Mail
1915: Skinny London author Virginia Woolf publishes her first novel, The Voyage Out. At the book’s launch, friends and colleagues express concern over Virginia’s gaunt appearance. ‘She must have dropped two sizes in a year,’ says one leading poet. …
- STREET DOGS: Economists are like dentists, Business Day
Civilisation — the things that were worthwhile — were the novels of his friend Virginia Woolf, the paintings of his friend Duncan Grant, the dances of his wife the ballerina Lydia Lopokova…. The good and the beautiful — civilisation — were the … - Closing the (Political) Salon, Cincinnati CityBeat
In the early 20th century, she says, similar exchanges happened at Gertrude Stein’s salon for artists and writers, the Paris existentialists’ cafe Les Deux Magots, and Virginia Woolf’s Bloomsbury Group in London. So a decade ago, galvanized by a touch … - Florence and The Machine New Album For Nov 2011, I Like Music
It’s about a lot of things; Virginia Woolf creeps into it, and of course Frieda Kahlo, whose painfully beautiful painting gave me the title.” Florence The album was produced by Paul Epworth over five weeks in the famous Studio 3 of Abbey Road, … Read Woolf sightings: Artistic vaginas, “scrolloping” and a new song. - ED2011 Book Review: Is It Possible To Be ‘Modern’ And British At The Same Time …, ThreeWeeks News
Kathleen Jones has written a new biography of Katherine Mansfield, and, with help from a newly uncovered archive, talked about her competitive relationship with Virginia Woolf as well as her tense friendship with DH and Frieda Lawrence. … - RTS REVIEW: ‘PRIVATE LIVES’, Buzzine
Mr. Douglas and Ms. Kinsolving are captivating as two lovers who, at times, appear as if they have a case of the Virginia Woolf. Mr. Douglas positively reeks of upper class sophistication and class, while Ms. Kinsolving brilliantly and confidently …
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