Frome Railway Station
A big thank you to Blogging Woolf readers for donating to the Woolf Plaque Supporters’ efforts to install a blue plaque at the Frome Railway Station to memorialize Leonard Woolf’s proposal to Virginia Stephen.
According to the Frome Standard, people from all over the world (including many Blogging Woolf readers) donated to this effort. The publication reports:
Donations have come from all over the world including America and New Zealand after a report in the Frome Standard about fundraising for the plaque was re-posted on the Blogging Woolf website.
A spokeswoman from the Woolf Plaque Supporters said, “‘When we launched our fundraising drive in the Standard in June, we expected donations would begin to trickle in from Frome and the surrounding towns and villages.'”
However, supporters said they were astonished to find that after the article was re-posted on Blogging Woolf, “donations began to come in from all over the world.”
The plaque will be unveiled at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22 on the platform of the Frome Railway Station by Cecil Woolf of Cecil Woolf Publishers of London. Cecil is Leonard’s nephew.
If you attend and take pictures of the event, please share them with us at Blogging Woolf!
To submit pictures of the plaque event e-mail at: Kaylee.Baucom@CSN.edu
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So sorry – this is unrelated, but I couldn’t find contact information. Did you see the BBC Radio 4 panel show, The Wright Stuff, had a VW theme this week? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006zbzb
Thanks for the comment and the link. We have shared the information in this post.
As briefly mentioned in the article, Cecil Woolf has very kindly agreed to unveil the plaque for us. He will be accompanied by his wife, Dr Jean Moorcroft Wilson, who as you know has written and lectured extensively on Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The writer and biographer, Victoria Glendinning, C.B.E., whose book “Leonard Woolf: A Life” has done so much to bring Leonard Woolf to the attention of modern readers also hopes to attend. We look forward to welcoming interested readers to the unveiling.
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Thanks so much for providing these details about the unveiling of the plaque. We wish we could be at the Frome Station to stand among the Woolf Plaque Supporters.