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New book on shell shock and war includes Woolf

Posted in books, Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf and war, tagged , , , , , , on Saturday 23 March 2013| Leave a Comment »

Shell Shock and Modernist ImaginationShell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction by Wyatt Bonikowski is just out from Ashgate Press.

It includes a chapter on Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925) titled “`death was an attempt to communicate’: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.” Bonikowski, assistant profess or English at Suffolk University in Boston, presented part of the chapter at a 2008 MLA panel sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society.

The book looks at case histories of shell shock, along with Modernist novels by Ford Madox Ford, Rebecca West, and Woolf, to show how the figure of the shell-shocked soldier and the symptoms of war trauma were transformed by the literary imagination.

Bonikowski argues that the authors in his study broaden our understanding of the traumatic effects of war and explore the idea that there may be a connection between the trauma of war and the trauma of sexuality. All three novels are structured around the relationship between a soldier returning from and a woman who awaits him. However, according to Bonikowski’s argument, the novels do not offer the possibility of a healing effect from the reunion.

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Montreal’s Word Bookstore acquires Rosenbaum collection

Posted in books, tagged , , , on Friday 22 March 2013| 1 Comment »

The Word Bookstore, an independent secondhand bookstore in Montreal, has acquired the collection of the late S. P. Rosenbaum, according to a message from Emily Kopley to the VWoolf Listserv.

English: The Word Bookstore at 469 Milton Stre...

English: The Word Bookstore at 469 Milton Street in Montreal, Canada. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Rosenbaum, who in Woolf circles was best known for his work on the literary history of the Bloomsbury Group, died in Nova Scotia at the age of 83 last year.

Kopley said the material acquired by the Word Bookstore includes many first editions, association copies and early Woolf scholarship.

Word Bookstore owner Adrian King-Edwards can be contacted by phone at 514-845-5640 and by email at wordbook@securenet.net.

The shop invites booklovers to visit its Facebook page for updates on new arrivals.

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Virginia Woolf book club at The Dalloway

Posted in events, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Thursday 21 March 2013| Leave a Comment »

The Dalloway, a restaurant and bar in New York City’s So Ho district, is hosting a Virginia Woolf-themed book club, centering on theliterary monday Modernist author’s work.

The introductory session of Literary Mondays will be held Monday, March 25, beginning at 7 p.m.

The evening promises artisan cheeses, seasonal flatbreads, a prix-fixe dinner, drinks, Woolf, women, feminism and a discussion of Mrs. Dalloway. The cost is $27, which includes gratuity and taxes.

The Dalloway is located at 525 Broome Street (between 6th and Thompson)

RSVP to  Bookworms@thedallowaynyc.com  by Monday at noon.

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Woolf sightings: Including a song of Julia

Posted in music, Virginia Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , on Wednesday 20 March 2013| Leave a Comment »

Some interesting Woolf sightings today, including the unreleased demo by Sufjan Stevens, which is based on Virginia’s mother, Julia Prinsep Stephen (4); Emma Watson’s musings on her shifts from high to low culture (11); and small talk about whether one would want to be stuck in a lift with Woolf (40).

  1. A Servant of One’s Own: On Virginia Woolf, Domestics, and Downton …, The Millions, March 15, 2013
    A Servant of One’s Own: On Virginia Woolf, Domestics, and … but the 18 years Nellie Boxall served as cook to Virginia Woolf, however, were a …
  2. Book News: Apostrophe Chaos, Abercrombie and Žižek, New Yorker (blog), March 18, 2013
    Alexis Coe on the “long and tumultuous saga” of Virginia Woolf and her servant Nellie Boxall. Langston Hughes’s collection of Harlem …
  3. theater — Virginia Woolf’s ORLANDO, adapted by Sarah Ruhl, Glens Falls Post-Star, Feb. 28, 2013
    In Sarah Ruhl’s whimsical adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel ORLANDO, we are invited to take a journey of self-discovery as Orlando lives as a duke, …
  4. [listen] Hear an unreleased Sufjan Stevens demo “Julia”, ChartAttack, March 15, 2013
    Sufjan says he recently unearthed the cassette demo in an Adidas shoebox, and “Julia” refers to Julia Prinsep Jackson, Virginia Woolf’s mother …

  5. Michelle Shocked explains allegedly anti-gay remarks, Examiner.com, March 19, 2013
    … icons including Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Ella Fitzgerald, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Georgia O’Keefe, Billie Holiday, Amelia Earhart …
  6. Live, Love and Eat! Neighborfood Launches in Santa Barbara, Noozhawk
    … neighbors to live it, love it and eat in it, because as Virginia Woolf said, “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
  7. Philip Roth’s Eightieth Birthday Celebration, New Yorker (blog), March 20, 2013
    Orlando DVD

    Orlando DVD

    … the biographer of Virginia Woolf and Edith Wharton, who gave a learned survey of Roth’s use of Shakespeare in his novels; Alain Finkielkraut …

  8. Sam Mills’ top 10 fictional sex changes, The Guardian, March 20, 2013 Orlando by Virginia Woolf. Orlando, Woolf’s fantastical biography, records the 400-year life of Lord Orlando. He begins as a nobleman in the …
  9. Admission, Willamette Week, March 20, 2013
    In an overstuffed subplot, Portia’s sheepish poetry-professor partner (Michael Sheen) leaves her for a Virginia Woolf scholar he’s already …
  10. What Our Memories Tell Us About Ourselves, TIME, March 20, 2013
    In her striking description of lying as a small child in her cot at St. Ives, Virginia Woolf noted that this wasn’t just her earliest memory; it was the …
  11. Emma Watson parties hard, ‘goes shopping’ in ‘Bling Ring’ trailer, Kansas CW, March 8, 2013Screen Shot 2013-03-20 at 10.54.51 PM
    So I would go from reading Virginia Woolf to [watching] Kim Kardashian. I kind of loved it, this mix of super-high and super-low culture. I think it …
  12. Women’s Rights Movement in Colombia Takes the Stage, Foghorn Online, March 19, 2013
    “Like Virginia Woolf would say, 22 years ago I resolved to have my own room,” and as an actress, Colombia’s Virginia Woolf has found her …
  13. The Making Of ‘Descender’: Andrew Wyatt on Creativity, Violin …, Noisey (blog), March 19, 2013
    There is an underlying message to that effect in Mrs. Dalloway, the Virginia Woolf novel from which the anecdote is partially taken. There are of …
  14. Belated Apology to Anton Chekhov, The Atlantic, March 19, 2013
    His work inspires adoration from readers, including writers as different as Virginia Woolf and Raymond Carver. When asked about his …
  15. Professor of book art will speak on women’s roles in printing, Santa Fe New Mexican.com, March 18, 2013
    Virginia Woolf is best known as an essayist and novelist of London’s Bloomsbury Group in the early 20th century. Less known is her and her …
  16. The Accidental Artist, Baltimore City Paper, March 19, 2013
    … the tinkering with conventional realism and syntax practiced by James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Tristan Tzara, Virginia Woolf, …
  17. Review: ‘Bates Motel’ a twisty, moody modern prequel to ‘Psycho’, Los Angeles Times, March 18, 2013
    When, in her famous essay “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf conjured the tragically compelling possibility of Shakespeare’s sister, a new …
  18. Sundance Channel’s ‘Top of the Lake’: Out of the gloom, a chilling …, Washington Post, March 17, 2013
    … asked to help with the case of Tui Mitcham, a 12-year-old rescued while wading, Virginia Woolf-style, into the frigid waters of Lake Wakatipu.
  19. Long-lost essay by ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ author discovered, News & Observer, March 18, 2013
    Stevenson devotes most of the essay to the art of capturing or even simulating reality on paper, a puzzle that Virginia Woolf and other 20th …
  20. Magical & delicious, The Recorder, Feb. 20, 2013
    This is an undated photo of British author Virginia Woolf. (AP Photo) Ashfield poet and publisher Jan Freeman found a draft of “On Being Ill’ …
  21. Author Ann Patchett coms to Writers Center Stage at the Ohio …, Plain Dealer, March 17, 2013
    In essence, Patchett is staking out a 21st-century version of Virginia Woolf’s argument in “A Room of One’s Own”: That writers (Woolf was talking …
  22. Women writers romancing the Word,
    Inquirer.net, March 15, 2013
    Move over, Virginia Woolf. For the women writers whose works are on exhibit until April 30, the most important message they wish to convey, …
  23. WBUR, March 14, 2013

    Running ahead of Virginia Woolf, Georgia O’Keefe, Amelia Earhart. Of Edith Wharton. Hemingway. A proto-feminist. Transcendentalist.

  24. Putnam overcomes adversity, wild final minutes to win …, MassLive.com, March 17, 2013
    The win was about as easy as putting together IKEA furniture while blindfolded, as simple as reading aVirginia Woolf book backwards and in a …
  25. Whatever Happened To The Real Gingers And Rosas?, NPR, March 14, 2013
    Undoubtedly the women’s movement bailed out Potter, most of whose movies — including her famously stylized adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s …
  26. Amanda Coplin’s novel path to success with ‘The Orchardist’, OregonLive.com, March 16, 2013
    Her desire to write stories dropped away and she studied novels by the masters, William Faulkner and Cormac McCarthy and Virginia Woolf.
  27. The Xtra Diary: Berwick Street’s haggling history, West End Extra, March 15, 2013
    But it was not only hard-up Londoners who faced the schleppers and VirginiaWoolf was known to visit the stocking stalls and enjoy haggling …
  28. Girl Trouble by Carol Dyhouse – review, The Guardian, March 15, 2013Girl Trouble
    (Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield were fairly ambivalent towards the suffrage movement.) Stories like this one, from Carol Dyhouse’s …
  29. Hilary Mantel faces six newcomers in contest for women’s fiction prize, The Guardian, March 12, 2013
    “I’m not trying to make some big generalisation out of it … but if you think back to Virginia Woolfsaying that her ideal for women writers is that …
  30. New Helvetia Theatre stages deeply satisfying ‘Ordinary Days’, Sacramento Bee, March 13, 2013
    … becomes linked to Kiera Anderson’s harried Deb after he finds her daily planner stuffed with notes on her stalled thesis about Virginia Woolf.
  31. Sisters with no cause to thank their parents, Evening Standard, March 14, 2013
    Dunn, whose previous biographies include a double portrait of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, steers as gracefully as she can around the fact ..

  32. Writing Idols: Jodi Picoult, Huffington Post, March 14, 2013

    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult

    For me, the list would consist of such names as Virginia Woolf, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, Tana French, J.D. Salinger, John Irving and …

  33. Identifying Mrs Meeke, OUPblog (blog), March 13, 2013
    In twentieth-century terms, this would be roughly akin to identifying a family tie linking Virginia Woolfto Agatha Christie. But what had led …
  34. The Top Five Least-Hipster Buildings in Downtown Dallas …, D Magazine, March 12, 2013
    Black hat, black jeans, Moleskine: hipster. Flannel shirt, beard, canteen: hipster. Olde tyme bloomers,Virginia Woolf tattoo, Big Bird sneakers: …
  35. Manifesto for critical times, The Hindu, March 11, 2013
    Writers like James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust desired independence from all and everything — including culture, family, and …
  36. London’s ‘Village’ People, Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2013
    The Bedford Estates is the largest private landowner in Bloomsbury, home to the British Museum and an intellectual hub since Virginia Woolf .
  37. Mark Haddon: ‘The London theatre world is so much more alive than …, Evening Standard, March 12, 2013
    Virginia Woolf’s stream of consciousness style remains his touchstone. One reviewer said that his most recent novel, The Red House, about a …
  38. Alice Walker: ‘I feel dedicated to the whole of humanity’, The Guardian, March 9, 2013
    It would be decades before I read Virginia Woolf and had her beautiful rendition of that thought, but I knew that was what I needed. The story …
  39. William Nicholson’s cultural highlights, The Guardian, March 9, 2013
    The models he used were his friends, the Bloomsbury lot, so you can spot the likes of Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. What I love …
  40. Small Talk: Amity Gaige, Financial Times, March 8, 2013
    John Updike, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Nabokov, Edward Albee. Who would you like to be stuck in a lift with? Hugh Jackman. He could sing …

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Woolf sightings: Fifty stuck in the pipeline

Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , on Tuesday 12 March 2013| 1 Comment »

From late December until now, the number of Woolf sightings I have received through a standard Google alert have dwindled to nearly nothing. One might think that Woolf’s popularity has dwindled. That is not the case.

The problem seems to be that something has changed on the Google end of things, and the Woolf sightings I used to receive daily without effort must now be retrieved by initiating a specific search.

Search I did, and here are the 50 Woolf sightings I found stuck in the Google pipeline one recent afternoon. They include references to Woolf and Beyoncé (10), Woolf and gardens (26), Woolf and the Oscars (41), and Woolf and fashion (44).

  1. Bristol Women’s Literature Festival: Interview with Sian Norris, Guide2Bristol, March 5, 2013
    … many wonderful books, but one of my favourite women writers…one of my favourite writers of all time…is VirginiaDaphne du maurier and her sisters Woolf, I absolutely love her.
  2. Casey Legler & Andrej Pejic’s Androgyny Isn’t A Trend At All, Refinery29 (blog), March 4, 2013
    While gender permutation is certainly not a new “trend” in fashion — think Bowie, Virginia Woolf, or even the wig-wearing 18th century men …
  3. Review: Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters by Jane Dunn, Telegraph.co.uk, March 3, 2013
    Dunn, one of six sisters herself, has written before of sisterhoods, notably in her study of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. She knows that “it is …
  4. Daphne du Maurier and Her Sisters: The Hidden Lives of Piffy, Bird …, The Independent-March 1, 2013
    Following Jane Dunn’s account of the sisterly dynamics of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, this is the premise of her engaging study of the …
  5. Magical & delicious, The Recorder, Feb. 20, 2013on being ill
    This is an undated photo of British author Virginia Woolf. (AP Photo) Ashfield poet and publisher Jan Freeman found a draft of “On Being Ill’ …
  6. It takes balls to be a Great Actor, Irish Independent, March 2, 2013
    Virginia Woolf put it best when she said that a book is always considered important if it deals with men going off to war, but “insignificant if it …
  7. 31 Days of Daily Inspiration From Brilliant Women, Huffington Post, Feb. 28, 2013
    … Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Abigail Adams, Caroline Hershel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie.
  8. Women in love, Financial Times, March 1, 2013
    Virginia Woolf once joked: “If any … dares call me ‘middlebrow’ I will take my pen and stab him, dead.” It is a sign of Jane Dunn’s generous …
  9. William Dalrymple: If I had five more lives, I’d live them all in India, gulfnews.com, Mar 2, 2013
    … Shah Shuja and the first battle for Afghanistan,” says Dalrymple, who has literature in his blood – his father was a cousin of Virginia Woolf.
  10. Same love; different lyrics, The Guardian (blog), March 1, 2013
    It’s a sign of the times that Beyoncé’s lyrics contain more feminist polemic than Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. “My persuasion can build …
  11. In the Critics this Week, New Statesman, Feb. 14, 2013
    The Critics section of this week’s New Statesman is lead by Jeanette Winterson’s article on the “joyous transgressions” of Virginia Woolf’s
  12. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is right: working from home is bad for …, Telegraph.co.uk, Feb. 27, 2013
    As Virginia Woolf observed of (middle-class) women writers, “a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction”; she … 
  13. James Wood on five great novels of consciousness, Telegraph.co.uk, Feb. 26, 2013
    Mrs Ramsay, in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse (1927) sits and thinks randomly (about God, her children, how the greenhouse will cost £50), …
  14. Cafe Royal: The life and times of a London institution, CITY A.M., March 1, 2013
    The Twenties’ renovation contributed to its success in a new era; Virginia Woolf, Noël Coward, Laurence Olivier, Ivor Novello, JB Priestley and ..
  15. Cracking the Shell of Chick-Lit, Teen Ink, March 1, 2013
    Sparks’ process of publishing novels is the same as that of J.K. Rowling or Virginia Woolf. It starts with inspiration, continues with hours of …
  16. Sarasota, are you ready to take on the challenge of Marcel Proust?, Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog), March 1, 2013
    Many significant writers of the 20th century, including Graham Green, W. Somerset Maugham, Vladimir Nabokov, Virginia Woolf and Michael ..
  17. A glimpse of the words in action, gulfnews.com, Feb. 27, 2013
    Virginia Woolf’s novels, though I can’t read them now because she’s so terribly snobby. But her prose was a revelation. Do you think the craft …
  18. The case against working at home, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Feb. 28, 2013
    One of the great thinkers on work-life conditions, Virginia Woolf, argued that our ideas themselves are subtly, but importantly, affected by the …
  19. Theater review: Ordinary Days, Columbus Alive, Feb. 27, 2013
    … enthusiasm by Zack Steele, and ever anxious Deb, struggling with her dissertation on Virginia Woolf and given vivid voice by Leslie Goddard, …
  20. A Reading List of One’s Own: 10 Essential Feminist Books, The Atlantic, Feb. 20, 2013
    Noteworthy feminist writing, from the works of Virginia Woolf to Caitlin Moran. banner_woolf.jpg.Virginia Woolf. flavorpillheader.PNG …
  21. Goodbye Longbourn, hello Lahore, New Zealand Listener, Feb. 27, 2013
    Mullan goes on to quote that wonderful Virginia Woolf line that “of all great writers [Austen] is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness”.
  22. Sex not specified: photography’s gender frontiers, The Age-by Steve Dow, Feb. 25, 2013
    … the Eurythmics had done and Tilda Swinton in her breakthrough role as the sex-switching Orlando of the film of Virginia Woolf’s classic novel …
  23. Stoppard in name of love, The Border Mail, Feb. 27, 2013Stoppard
    ”He was a modernist, he edited Conrad and he knew Joyce, he knew Virginia Woolf. He was very stimulated by that whole modernist world.
  24. The continued conundrum of consciousness, Binghamton University Pipe Dream, Feb. 26, 2013
    Consider some of the great creative minds of the past century: Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath,Virginia Woolf and many more, not exclusive to …
  25. What does it mean to be a writer? For me, writing is a parenthesis …, Financial Times, Feb. 22, 2013
    I’ve never had a Virginia Woolf “Room of One’s Own”. … Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931) and Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red (1998).
  26. Rhododendrons to shine at Philadelphia Flower Show, Montgomery Newspapers, Feb. 26, 2013
    The gardens are promised to feel so authentic and peaceful that passersby might envision historical British figures like Virginia Woolf, Roger …
  27. Karen Russell: By the Book, New York Times, Feb. 14, 2013
    … Wallace Stevens, Stephen King, Denis Johnson, Mary Gaitskill, Virginia Woolf, Ben Marcus, Kelly Link, Joy Williams, Carson McCullers.
  28. App brings artists to all, Your Local Guardian, Feb. 26, 2013
    … do have key links with number of influential authors, such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Alexander Pope and of course Virginia Woolf.” …
  29. Ups and Downs: Famous Writers and their Day Jobs, Nelson Mail (blog), Feb. 21, 2013
    It’s one of the orange-striped Popular Penguin mugs, with “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and “George Orwell” written on it. The Virginia Woolf model …
  30. New on Netflix: The Hunger Games, The Paperboy, The Artist …, Reel Life With Jane, Feb. 27, 2013
    This gripping drama follows the parallel lives of three 20th-century women: incomparable writerVirginia Woolf, an unsatisfied 1950s housewife …
  31. Bring Back the Illustrated Book!, New Yorker (blog), Feb. 22, 2013
    In her 1926 essay, “Cinema,” Virginia Woolf reëmphasized the distinction between visual stimulation and the ineffable conjurings of prose.
  32. ‘Or’ star Emily Gunyou Halaas on life in (and out of) the theater, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 23, 2013
    Virginia Woolf wrote that “All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned them the right to …
  33. Love Letters: Old Fashioned Affection in a Digital Age, Washington College Elm, Feb. 15, 2013
    Few love letters evoke this risk as mesmerizingly as Virginia Woolf’s letter to her lover Vita Sackville-West, written in 1927: “Look here Vita …
  34. DDF triumph: ‘Soap and Water’, Palatinate, Feb. 24, 2013
    … suicide: Sylvia Plath, Sarah Kane and Virginia Woolf remind the audience that although the piece may present itself as a contrived situation, …
  35. Review – Ingrid Jonker: A poet’s life1352667520, Independent Online, Feb. 21, 2013
    Often compared to Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf because of her suicide (she drowned in July 1965), sometimes to Marilyn Monroe over her …
  36. Former TNR owner/publisher has seller’s remorse, Hot Air, Feb. 14, 2013
    The first and second cohort of editors and writers included such giants as Felix Frankfurter, Virginia Woolf, Reinhold Niebuhr, Rebecca West, …
  37. Touching Plath’s Hair, Daily Beast, Feb. 11, 2013
    In 2005, I was lucky to travel to Knole, the family seat of Vita Sackville West, where the original manuscript for Virginia Woolf’s Orlando is on …
  38. Sylvia Plath’s London: ‘When I came to my beloved Primrose Hill …, Evening Standard, Feb. 22, 2013
    The evening was spent gossiping about the private lives of DH Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, WH Auden and Stravinsky. The following month the …
  39. Glimpse of a mischievous, surprisingly saucy Austen, Irish Independent, Feb. 18, 2013

    Nevertheless, in the limited world Austen inhabited, holding, in the words of Virginia Woolf, “a candle to life on a country house stairway”, a life …

  40. JG Ballard’s Memoir, ‘Miracles of Life’, New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013
    “No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car,” Ballard notes. “No one in Hemingway’s postwar novels ever …
  41. Why the Oscars Really Are Worth Watching, Esquire (blog), Feb. 22, 2013
    Neither did Kafka, nor Virginia Woolf, and on and on. These writers weren’t particularly uplifting people. They didn’t write virtuous books.
  42. Do we still need women-only spaces? The Guardian (blog), Feb. 15, 2013
    Feminism in the 1970s was based on the truism that every woman needed “a room of one’s own”, a phrase that drew on Virginia Woolf’s …
  43. From Arab Spring to global revolution, The Guardian, Feb. 5, 2013
    I am drawn to Virginia Woolf’s comment: “On or about December 1910 human character changed.” She was referring to a revolution in social …
  44. Autumn/Winter 2013-14 Ready-To-Wear, Vogue.com, Feb. 12, 2013
    It was all very much anchored in that Virginia Woolf poetic vein – dropped-waist dresses, billowy sleeves, high necks, flocked florals, dancing …
  45. Lens Crafter, Santa Fe Reporter, Feb. 19, 2013
    … Sigmund Freud’s couch, Annie Oakley’s heart target and Virginia Woolf’s writing table. “Woolf was very messy…art is messy,” Leibovitz says.
  46. Treading warily through history, Huffington Post (blog), Feb. 14, 2013
    Virginia Woolf, for example, deplored Lytton Strachey’s original decision to garner the facts with invented passages in his book, Elizabeth and …
  47. Last Whiff of PIFF, Willamette Wee, Feb. 20, 2013
    Chekhov’s elusive endings haunt us, said Virginia Woolf, because we feel “as if a tune had stopped short without the expected chords to close it …
  48. This is 50, The Christian Century, Feb. 15, 2013
    The novelist Virginia Woolf sounds a bit like Thomas Merton. At 50, she wrote of her desire to concentrate her life, to turn it away from the …
  49. Writing of walking, Spectator.co.uk (blog), Feb. 7, 2013
    Clarissa Dalloway’s walk from Westminster to Bond Street at the beginning of Mrs Dalloway is one of Virginia Woolf’s most astonishing authorial …
  50. Chrissie Swan, The Age, Feb. 9, 2013
    Kind of like Virginia Woolf’s “room of one’s own”, but it’s a “domain of one’s own”. In their lovely, intimate space, they create a magnificently rich …
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