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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 ŽižekNew 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 RuhlGlens 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 remarksExaminer.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 BarbaraNoozhawk
    … 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 CelebrationNew Yorker (blog), March 20, 2013

    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 changesThe 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. AdmissionWillamette 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 OurselvesTIME, 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’ trailerKansas CW, March 8, 2013
    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 StageFoghorn 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 ChekhovThe 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 printingSanta 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 ArtistBaltimore 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 discoveredNews & 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 & deliciousThe 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 historyWest 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 – reviewThe Guardian, March 15, 2013
    (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 prizeThe 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 parentsEvening 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 PicoultHuffington Post, March 14, 2013

    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 MeekeOUPblog (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 timesThe 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’ PeopleWall 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 highlightsThe 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 GaigeFinancial 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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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 NorrisGuide2Bristol, March 5, 2013
    … many wonderful books, but one of my favourite women writers…one of my favourite writers of all time…is Virginia Woolf, I absolutely love her.
  2. Casey Legler & Andrej Pejic’s Androgyny Isn’t A Trend At AllRefinery29 (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 DunnTelegraph.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 & deliciousThe 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’ 
  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 WomenHuffington Post, Feb. 28, 2013
     Cady Stanton, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Abigail Adams, Caroline Hershel, Emmeline Pankhurst, Virginia Woolf, Marie Curie.
  8. Women in loveFinancial 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 lyricsThe 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 WeekNew 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 institutionCITY 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-LitTeen 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 actiongulfnews.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 homeLong 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 DaysColumbus 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 BooksThe 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 LahoreNew 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 loveThe Border Mail, Feb. 27, 2013
    ”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 consciousnessBinghamton 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 ShowMontgomery 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 BookNew 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 allYour 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 JobsNelson 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 theaterMinneapolis 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 AgeWashington 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 life, 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 HairDaily 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 AustenIrish 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 WatchingEsquire (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 revolutionThe 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-WearVogue.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 CrafterSanta 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 historyHuffington 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 PIFFWillamette 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 50The 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 walkingSpectator.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 SwanThe 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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The International Virginia Woolf Society has issued a call for papers for the Modern Language Association Convention, which will be held in Chicago, Jan. 9-12, 2014.

Guaranteed panel at MLA

The society will have one guaranteed panel, Woolf, Wittgenstein, and Ordinary Language, which invites papers on Woolf’s championing of the ordinary in language and Wittgenstein’s philosophy of ordinary language, both thinkers’ tangential relationship to the “Apostles,” and/or their influence on Bloomsbury.

Organizers: Madelyn Detloff at detlofmm@miamioh.edu and Gaile Pohlhaus Jr. at pohlhag@miamioh.edu.

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are by March 8 to the organizers.

More information: For more information about the panel, please contact the organizers directly.

Proposed panel

The society will propose an additional panel to submit to the MLA Program Committee, which
must be accepted by the committee before it is official. Panel details are as follows:

Woolf and London’s Colonial Writers: Literary, political, social, and spatial connections between Woolf and London-affiliated writers from the British colonies. Papers may focus on any number of writers who traveled from various locals in the British Commonwealth and spent time in London contemporaneously with Woolf, including Mulk Raj Anand and Mahatma Gandhi of India and C.L.R. James, Una Marson, and Jean Rhys, from the West Indies. Papers might address intersections through the Hogarth Press, mutual friends and social circles, shared literary and political investments, literary responses, and common spaces.

Organizer: Elizabeth F. Evans at elizabeth.evans@nd.edu.

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are due by March 8 to the organizer.

Proposed collaborative panel

The society will also collaborate with another allied organization and submit a third panel, which is not guaranteed. For 2014, that will be a panel with allied organization, SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing.

Organizers will choose papers for this panel and submit the proposal to the MLA Program Committee and hope for their approval.The topic is: Book History & Virginia Woolf: A joint session of the International Virginia Woolf Society and SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing) on Woolf & book arts & history: letterpress, typesetting, bookbinding, manuscripts, the material book . . . her books in book history, and more.

Angles for this panel include Virginia Woolf, history, & the book arts. Woolf and letterpress, bookbinding, the book arts; depictions of the material book or the printing process in Woolf; or bibliographical or manuscript-based studies. Sly references to letterpress, type and typesetting, bookbinding and the Book Arts, glimpses in bookshop windows, descriptions of books on tables, with just a line of text to tease the reader, books wrapped in plain brown wrapper, manuscripts tucked in the bosom, books abound within the text of Woolf’s books. How do they work? Can they be identified? What do they mean? How do they shed light on Woolf as a book-maker/book-binder, a lover of the history and art of the book—in addition to her love of writing?

Organizers: Leslie K. Hankins at lhankins@cornellcollege.edu and Greg Barnhisel at barnhiselg@duq.edu

Deadline: 300-word abstracts are due March 8 to the organizers.

MLA Woolf Bash

The society’s annual MLA bash will be held at the home of Pamela Caughie.

Important note: You must be on the books as a member of MLA to organize or present on a panel.

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Alice Lowe, a regular contributor to Blogging Woolf, blends her life stories, food and Virginia Woolf in her writing.

Read her latest creation, “Leftovers on Lettuce: ABCs of a Life in Food,” an essay published Feb. 24 in Middlebrow Magazine.

Lowe describes the British journal as playing on “Woolf’s snooty but tongue-in-cheek essay in which she castigates ‘middlebrow’ as ‘the bloodless and pernicious pest who comes between’ the highbrow and the lowbrow, ‘the bane of all thinking and living.'”

Lowe writes that “the editors seek to reclaim it as a positive concept, calling Woolf’s own essays middlebrow, so I consider myself in good company on their pages.”

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As Kristen Czarnecki of Georgetown College noted in a message to the Virginia Woolf Listserv, the latest issue of the Journal of Modern Literature is “full of Woolf.”

Here’s a sampling of what you’ll find — for free — as HTML or as downloadable PDFs:

The articles are published in Volume 36, Number 1, Fall 2012 by Indiana University Press.

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