Blogging Woolf

This collection of Woolf sightings includes a seasonal approach to Woolf (1) and mentions of World War I (10, 11).

1. Appropriate for the season: How Five Literary Characters (including gloomy Orlando) Deal With Winter.
   
2. Nora in The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, works on a series of tiny dioramas, including one depicting Virginia Woolf putting rocks in her pockets at Rodmell. More on this sighting of Woolf in contemporary fiction.
3. Jim Brock turned to Virginia Woolf for inspiration in writing his new play, “Because Beauty Must Be Broken Daily” in Florida.
4. Tove Jansson compared to Virginia Woolf.
5. “Between the Lines,” a set of collages based on women in literature, including Virginia Woolf.
6. Billilla, a grand old house in Brighton, is a place of one’s own to write fiction as part of the Bayside City Council’s Artist in Residence Program.
7. Add the Internet as a necessity, along with a room and an income, for women who want to write.
8. The influence of Middlemarch, which Woolf touted as “one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”
9. Woolf, economic independence & empowerment in a modern context. Read more.
10. Finally, a WWI anthology that is diverse — but includes no Woolf and no West.
11. A high school academic decathlon focusing on WWI and including Woolf’ “Mark on the Wall.”
12. Woolf an influence on John Hennessy.
13. Almost an allusion to Virginia Woolf in Dylan’s “Desolation Row.”
14. “Mad, Bad and Sad: Women and the Mind Doctors,” an exhibition at London’s Freud Museum featuring women’s eperiences, including Virginia Woolf’s.
15. Does Mrs. Dalloway need a trauma trigger warning?
16. Start Here, Volume 2 helps you read your way into 25 authors, including Virginia Woolf.
17. A few more tales from the amazing life of Ruth Gruber.
18. A Bryn Mawr swimmer visits sites abroad, including those of Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.
19. Despite Virginia Woolf and Mary Shelly, sexism rampant among science fiction writers.