Posted in Dreadnought Hoax, Woolf sightings, tagged Dreadnought Hoax, Virginia Woolf Halloween costume on Friday 31 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
Today is Halloween, the perfect time to take a look at an infographic created by Essay Mama that depicts famous authors in costume. You’ll see Susan Sontag dressed as an adorable Teddy Bear and Colette as a cat, her favorite animal.
You’ll also see Virginia Woolf costumed as an Abyssinian prince for the famous Dreadnought Hoax. Below is a screenshot of the Woolf bit.
Posted in call for papers, tagged call for panel proposals, IVWS, MLA 2016 on Wednesday 29 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
The International Virginia Woolf Society will have one guaranteed panel at the Modern Language Association convention in 2016.
The IVWS can submit one additional panel, which is usually accepted but not guaranteed. In addition, the group will collaborate with another allied organization still to be identified and submit a third panel.
IVWS members are invited to submit a panel topic for MLA 2016, which will be held in Austin, Texas.
Note that this is a call for panels, not individual paper proposals. Please submit one topic only. To do so, include the following in your submission:
Submit your panel proposal to IVWS President-Elect Kristin Czarnecki at IVWSociety@gmail.com (note only one “S” in the address), subject line: Woolf MLA Austin 2016.
Deadline for submission: Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014.
Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, quotes, Woolf sightings, tagged Disney princesses, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, Woolf sightings on Tuesday 28 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
A Facebook friend of mine is very good at spotting Virginia Woolf online. And when she does, she posts the links to my wall. Here are a couple of amusing Woolf sightings she posted just this week:
As a bonus, my friend Lisa also posted this quote a few weeks ago:
Posted in Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, tagged Bloomsbury biographies, Kaylee Baucom, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West on Friday 24 October 2014| 1 Comment »
Vita was a celebrated poet, author and gardener whose love affair with Virginia Woolf is highlighted in Dennison’s biography.
This is the first biography of Vita that has been published in 30 years, and this new piece explores the “triumph and contradictions of Vita’s extraordinary life.”
From HarperCollins Publishers:
Dennison’s “narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita’s lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open’ marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita’s literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst.”
Early reviews of this biography are mixed:
Vita and Virginia, 1932
While a review by Gerard Henderson for Express praises Dennison’s treatment of Vita, “Dennison, whose previous work was a biography of another remarkable woman, Queen Victoria, shows true affection and admiration for his latest subject,” Rachel Cooke’s review, featured on The Guardian, challenges this new biography and calls it “deficient.”
Cooke writes: “the information contained in his book is so obviously inadequate, so frequently incomplete. I need give only one example to make the point. What kind of biography of Vita Sackville-West, I wonder, refers to the suicide of Virginia Woolf in a single sentence? The only possible answer is a wholly deficient one. This friendship was one of the most significant of her life.”
The author of this new biography, Matthew Dennison, is the author of several biographies, including one on Queen Victoria.
Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged Alice Lowe, Catch of the Day, Killing the Angel, literary journals, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 23 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
Inaugural issue of Killing the Angel
My hat goes off to Jessica Rosevear, editor and publisher of the literary journal Killing the Angel, on the release of the third annual issue. Jessica started KTA two years ago during what continues to be a tough time for print lit journals—many are folding while others are going online, so Jessica not only bucked the tide but is continuing to swim upstream.
The content of the journal is a mix of fiction, personal essays and poems, not about Virginia Woolf but in her spirit. KTA states its goal as: “to celebrate writing that evokes response, be it joy, contemplation, sadness, inspiration, or otherwise.” Each issue explains the term “killing the angel” and offers its homage to Woolf.
The journal is available in just two physical locations, Womrath’s, a Tenafly New Jersey bookstore, and Shakespeare and Company in Paris—should you happen to be near either—or it can be ordered online.
And I guess this is where I add a disclaimer: my own essay about family and food, “Catch of the Day,” is included in this issue.
