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Was Woolf a certified foodie? I think not. Did she say, “It’s all good. Just go with it”? Not bloody likely. But those are two of the Woolf sightings among the 55 below.

This portrait of Julia Jackson, Woolf's mother, is up for sale.

  1. Oaks hot travel deals for foodies!e-Travel Blackboard (press release)
    Renowned writer and devoted ‘foodie’, Virginia Woolf once quoted, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well”. With this in mind, Oaks Hotels & Resorts offer passionate foodies a choice of 3 indulgent packages. 
  2. Novel challenge for 50kSunLive (blog)
    Virginia Woolf reckoned it was ‘the critic in the corner’ who stopped you from producing. What you put down on the page had to be good enough to justify the time and energy spent on it. Literary writing teaches us to write consciously and …
  3. Bow to god of ‘tolerance’ or elseTown Hall
    After seeing a quasi-shrine that had been erected at her school, honoring Harvey Milk, Neil Patrick Harris, and Virginia Woolf for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History month, Knox expressed disapproval of “homosexuality based on her …
  4. The Media’s Sexualization of Female Athletes: A Bad Call for the Modern GameStudent Pulse
    Modernist feminist Virginia Woolf contends that women should earn just “enough to be independent of any other human being and to buy that modicum of health, leisure, knowledge and so on that is needed for the full development of body and mind” (80). …
  5. Bonhams to sell Julia Margaret Cameron’s intimate image of Virginia Woolf’s Art Daily
    Jackson had four children with Stephen, including Vanessa (Bell) and Virginia (Woolf), who immortalised her mother as Mrs Ramsay in her 1927 novel To the Lighthouse. Another sale highlight is The Merce Cunningham Dance Company Photography Portfolio 
  6. WOLFETTE – Trophy Girl – Released 5th December 2011Altsounds.com
    Part English rose, part fiery Thai, and a distant relative of Virginia Woolf, Wolfette is set to release her new track Trophy Girl: A euphoric, uplifting song of freedom. Wolfette breaks out of her cage, escaping from a controlling relationship. …
  7. Florence’s Dark Side of FameNewsweek
    “What the Water Gave Me” is plainly inspired by Virginia Woolf’s suicide. On another track she sings rhapsodically about “the arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold.” She tells me she’s always been sort of fascinated by water, and clips drowning 
  8. Florence and the Machine’s Hackney Empire gig was ‘dramatic and thrilling’Metro
    With references Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf thrown in for good measure, the song was like a much darker version of a Bat For Lashes song full of drama, foreboding and passion. Florence channeled her inner gospel chanteuse in the bluesy Lover To …
  9. ‘Difficult’ second album? We just went with the FloDaily Mail

    Florence And the Machine

    Joan Of Arc crops up on Only If For A Night, while What The Water Gave Me ruminates on the suicide of author Virginia Woolf. If it all sounds a little depressing, it isn’t. The music is too vibrant for gloom to set in. Even when she misses the point, ..

  10. Florence and the Machine mine the sweet sounds of homeGlobe and Mail
    During our conversation, Welch manages to work in references to both Virginia Woolfand Frida Kahlo, revealing a bookish side that’s no surprise given her cool-meets-clever genetic history – she’s the daughter of an academic mother (a professor of …
  11. Florence And The Machine – CeremonialsThe Yorker
    ‘What the Water Gave Me’ doesn’t just hint at the death of Virginia Woolf, it explains her chosen method. “Let the only sound be the overflow / pockets full of stones”, Welch half sings, half chants in her haunting chorus; Woolf did indeed fill her …
  12. Shaped by reading materialNew Zealand Herald
    Film and art may continue to be the most common cultural influences on fashion, but it is the impact of literature that has always intrigued me. The idea of a genuine interpretation of a writer’s portrayal rather …
  13. Woman joked of overdosing, trial toldStuff.co.nz Peter Borrie, this morning told the court of the rapid deterioration in his patient, as well as her “tongue in cheek” comments regarding her desire to overdose on tablets left to her by her late husband, or drown like author Virginia Woolf
  14. Holiday Inn gives serenity in the big cityNorthampton Chronicle & Echo
    The Holiday Inn is situated in a picturesque area with streets full of large terraced houses lived in by famous literary figures such as Virginia Woolf, George Bernard Shaw and Arthur Rimbaud. Once inside the hotel we were greeted by friendly and …
  15. The Woman of Wax” travels to IranIran Book News Agency
    Her role in the Spanish literature of late 20th century is comparable to the role of Virginia Woolf to her contemporary world. The key to Gaite’s success is her tone and point of view. Carmen never speaks from the seat of scholarly power, never infuses …
  16. How Do We Repair the Souls of Those Returning from Iraq?Huffington Post (blog)
    In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf portrayed the suicidal anguish of Septimus Smith as if she were a veteran herself. Tyler notes: She was just a writer. That tells me, if nothing else, that the information was there. The capacity to know existed. …
  17. James Wolcott on the Life of a CriticSlate Magazine (blog)
    For some reason, the elegant retort “If doing criticism didn’t cost Henry James,Virginia Woolf, DH Lawrence, and John Updike any candlepower, what makes you think you’re too good for it, buster?” never seems to stick. Journalistic critics such as…
  18. Carnegie International curators to offer updatePittsburgh Post Gazette
    The exhibit theme comes from two literary works about women’s creativity: Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own,” in which the author argues the necessity of a private room and financial independence, and Alice Walker’s “In Search of Our Mothers’ …
  19. Why child-free still trumps child-friendlyIndependent Online
    And even though I do the grocery shopping, walk the dogs, have un-massaged feet and know where the doodat is, I like my husband just as he is – even if he thinksVirginia Woolf is a character from True Blood. More than that, I like us just the way we …
  20. Local wins Rhodes ScholarshipThe Ashburton Guardian
    He is interested in women writers, including Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf and Janet Frame. “Women’s writing has historically been writing out of the experience of being oppressed and how to navigate and use the language of the oppressor, the dominant …
  21. ‘The Raven’ to creep into theatersWestern Courier (subscription)
    “The Hours,” based on Virginia Woolf’s life and famous novel “Mrs. Dalloway,” was nominated for numerous Academy Awards. On the other hand, “Becoming Jane” (based on Jane Austen) and “Sylvia” (based on Sylvia Plath), fell short and were both soon …
  22. From Stage to ScreenCU Columbia Spectator
    An initial clue, of course, lies in production companies’ endless quest to line their pockets: when Jack Warner bought the film rights to Virginia Woolf, it was the toast of Broadway, an especially lucrative seat-filler he hoped could pack countrywide 
  23. Mary Hamer wins Virginia Prize for FictionThe Bookseller
    Kipling and Trix entwines the life of the famous writer with that of his sister Trix. The Virginia Prize for Fiction was created in 2009 to mark 20 years of publishing at Aurora Metro, and is a biennial award for women, named in honour of Virginia Woolf.
  24. CHARLES DICKENS: A LIFE BY CLAIRE TOMALIN (Viking £30)Daily Mail
    People have always found it easy to sneer at Charles Dickens – for example, Sir Leslie Stephen (Virginia Woolf’s father) opined: ‘If literary fame could safely be measured by popularity among the half-educated, Dickens must claim the highest position …
  25. PLAY REVIEW: Next Stage, Cary Anne Spear present strong ‘Year’Centre Daily Times
    Her style is quite reminiscent of the later works of Virginia Woolf in that she moves effortlessly back and forth through time as her story unfolds. Didion not only tells us about whom she loses, but what she loses: this “what” is her beloved ..
  26. Faust (1926)A.V. Club
    If I want to see Virginia Woolf’s, I can simply go to YouTube. But while Dec. 28, 1895, when the Lumiere brothers held the first public exhibition of their films, marked a turning point in how we look at the world, it didn’t erase the past, ..
  27. How the British came to love PicassoSpectator.co.uk (blog)
    Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell’s correspondence recalls how the painter and curator Clive Bell took Picasso shopping in Savile Row to dress the dishevelled continental as an English gentleman; Picasso was said to favour the English bowler hat above ..
  28. Elizabeth I on screenMovies.ie
    The film, based on a novel by Virginia Woolf, tells the story of an immortal named Orlando who starts life as an Elizabethan nobleman. Queen Elizabeth commands Orlando never to fade and never to grow old, and over 300 years he transforms from man to …
  29. Republicans have turned into right royal snobsThe Australian
    So Self is only echoing Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia and member of the achingly arty Bloomsbury Group, who complained in 1937 that “an intense propaganda campaign” had managed to “establish in the people a superstitious loyalty towards the royal …
  30. Morphoses in “The Bacchae” suffers from anemiaThe Star-Ledger – NJ.com
    As Virginia Woolf understood, these passions acquire their shrillness from a life lived in the open air. Yet Woolf also noted in her essay “On Not Knowing Greek” that among the tragedians Euripides is the oblique, psychological one—the one who can be …
  31. This column will change your life: inspirational quotesThe Guardian
    Fear does keep us small; living at your fullest takes guts. None of this needs a fake Mandela attribution to be worth absorbing. So you like a new-age writer’s insights? So what? As Virginia Woolf famously put it: “It’s all good. Just go with it. …
  32. Jeanette Winterson: all about my motherThe Guardian
    … write about “experience” – the compass of what they know – while men write wide and bold, the big canvas, the experiment with form: Jane Austen’s famous two inches of ivory; the domestic, interior worlds of Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. …
  33. Who’s Afraid of 7 Billion? The Anti-Human Left, That’s WhoOpenMarket.org
    So even though it’s Halloween, I’m not afraid of 7 billion (though Virginia Woolf terrifies me). I say, to whoever that lucky number 7 is, welcome to Planet Earth. Maybe one day you will invent something that improves all our lives, and if so, …
  34. Toast When We Coast & Drink When We Stink: Week 8Dawg Sports
    Where You Can Get Your Hands On It: It doesn’t matter what kind of booze you buy… just buy a lot of it. Nothing else matters. As always, I look forward to reading your post-game celebration/Virginia Woolf-esque coping plans in the comments section. …
  35. The ‘sexy’ curse: Why are women so rubbish at Halloween?MyDaily UK
    I hope a few will break the mould and channel sexy Virginia Woolf, a sexy smelly old gym sock and sexy inexplicable melancholy. I realise this all sounds a bit Mary Whitehouse but it’s not that I am prudish about women wanting to look sexy; …
  36. Virginia Woolf, By Alexandra HarrisThe Independent
    Another biography of Virginia Woolf might seem about as necessary as the prosthetic nose that Nicole Kidman donned to play the writer. What’s left to add? This volume doesn’t arrive with a fanfare of new revelations, nor does it have a particular …

    A screen shot of Patti Smith's photo of Virginia Woolf's bed

  37. Patti Smith: “Camera Solo” Photo Exhibit Gently InspiresNeon Tommy
    Music was interspersed between carefully selected poems and prose by Rimbaud,Virginia Woolf and William Blake whom are also paid homage in the exhibit. Smith photographed Woolf’s cane in one photo and a stone from the river where she died in another. …
  38. A Pilgrim’s ProgressNew York Times
    She took her camera to Virginia Woolf’s house, photographing the surface of her writing table, and into her garden, capturing the wide, roiling water of the River Ouse, in which Woolf drowned herself. She photographed Dr. Freud’s sumptuously carpeted …
  39. To Be Anon…About – News & Issues
    In 1929, Virginia Woolf would speculate in A Room of One’s Own: “I would venture to guess thatAnon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” In the case of Sense and Sensibility at least, Woolf was decidedly right on target.
  40. David Huddle: The life on the insideBurlingtonFreePress.com
    I guess Virginia Woolf was one of the first great practitioners of the interior life. Carver, his people are quite often down-and-out working-class people. Most of the ones he writes about most movingly have drinking problems. …
  41. Fiery Feminist Virginia Woolf – LGBT History MonthCare2.com (blog)
    Day 30′s LGBT History Month icon, Virginia Woolf, had a very different life and career from Day 7′s icon, Rita Mae Brown. But both have influenced feminism and literature. By the time Virginia Woolf burst onto the London literary …
  42. Feminism: the Indian contextThe Hindu
    When one thinks of feminism, the names that come to one’s mind readily are Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Adrienne Rich, and Elaine Showalter, since the growth of feminism is usually attributed to western influence. True, these spokeswomen set …
  43. Theater review: ‘Twelfth Night’ at A Noise WithinLos Angeles Times
    As Virginia Woolf famously argued, creative beings need a room of their own. ANW now has a 33000-square-foot complex, complete with a comfortable 283-seat theater and enough room to house its expansive administrative and educational operation, ..
  44. Friends of Dorothy: How Gay Was My Oz?Huffington Post (blog)
    Well, I do subscribe to EM Forster’s dictum, “Only connect,” but I also live by a lesser known suggestion of Virginia Woolf’s: “Only suggest.” So I know what I believe, but in prose I only suggested a little bit about the tendresse — even once when …
  45. Joely Richardson on Anonymous, Playing Elizabeth and the Trouble With GreenscreenMovieline
    Next? I don’t know. I did, in a docudrama, play Virginia Woolf; I’d like another crack at her down the line, just because she’s such a fascinating woman. — just in terms of her mind. But… That’s all that’s coming to me right now!
  46. Regent’s Park’s Superprime Property, Spear’s WMS
    Virginia Woolf wrote in her diaries that ‘there is no doubt that the greatest happiness in the world is walking through Regent’s Park on a green, but wet — green but red pink and blue evening’. In an essay entitled London, 1940, Elizabeth Bowen wrote …
  47. AUDITIONS: Would you like to be in a film with Naomi Watts? Here’s how!Naples Daily News (blog)
    I guess I left the post in “draft” mode when I literally ran out the door headed to Sanibel to see “Virginia Woolf.” I only noticed today. I seriously apologize. Anyway. You still have two days to email for an appointment to the casting session for a …
  48. She Who Dares: The Astonishing Work Of Tilda SwintonHuffington Post
    His/her lifelong quest is to discover the purest, most powerful love; that search spans centuries and continents in this adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s famous novel. Swinton’s breakthrough turn as the androgynous Orlando is reason enough to see this …
  49. VIDEO: Equality Forum seeking nominations for 2012 LGBT History Month iconsSan Diego Gay & Lesbian News
    This year’s icons included people like Don’t Ask Don’t Tell activist Dan Choi; composer AaronCopland; pop star Lady Gaga; and author Virginia Woolf. Equality Forum spotlights one icon per day each October on its LGBT History Month web site. …
  50. Last Man StandingA.V. Club (blog)
    Meanwhile, Mandi works on her college application essays, trying to focus long enough to crank out something about how much she loves Virginia Woolf. Except it was Kristin who wrote that, obviously, as she realizes that having Boyd didn’t mean her …
  51. Seven fashion book ideas for ChristmasScotsman
    … to the abstract sculptures of Donald Judd in the 1960s, who called his work: “the simple expression of complex thought,” to Japanese culture and the concept of Zen, via philosophical absolutism, architecture, even the literature of Virginia Woolf. ..
  52. Alan Hollinghurst’s ‘The Stranger’s Child’ is a masterpiece about gay life and …Plain Dealer
    It’s Oscar Wilde and AE Housman, EM Forster and Virginia Woolf and the entireBloomsbury set (name checked extensively in the book), a history — as Cecil’s is — of invisibility, secrecy and scandal, bowdlerization, censure and frenetic posthumous …
  53. WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE: URBAN LEGENDHaute Living
    Mrs. Weston’s love for art began at an early age while reading about the Bloomsbury Group, a series of young writers and artists in England between the wars such asVirginia Woolf and EM Forster. The first painting she acquired was by Augustine Brown, …
  54. Despite Reflexive Humor, Eugenides’s Tired ‘Plot’ DisappointsHarvard Crimson
    “Is it Virginia Woolf? Is it Sontag?” When Madeleine responds that her real father is her father, her boyfriend responds: “Then you have to kill him.” When she in turn asks him who his father is, he says: “Godard.” One can’t help but wonder, though, …
  55. Individual access no substitute for community in scrum of ideasThe Australian
    The generation of the Apostles who later formed the core of the Bloomsbury group – Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf (who married Virginia) – kept coming to the Orchard long after they had left Cambridge. Rupert Brooke, heart-throb of the …

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