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Twenty days left to hear BBC Radio 4 Woolf program

Posted in Woolf online, tagged , , on Wednesday 19 November 2014| Leave a Comment »

You can listen to the 30-minute episode of BBC Radio 4’s literary panel show, The Write Stuff,  that featured Virginia Woolf here.

But do it soon. The Nov. 9 broadcast will only be available for 20 days.

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Vintage Woolf series includes 14

Posted in books, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Wednesday 19 November 2014| Leave a Comment »

During the past two years, Vintage Classics has republished 14 of Virginia Woolf’sVintage Woolf series works based on her original Hogarth Press texts, and each of them offers a cover featuring a tightly cropped photograph matched with simple typography.

Each cover of the Vintage Woolf series focuses on specific passages from the work it enfolds and features a photograph that represents lines from those passages. The original photograph is then cropped, highlighted and saturated with color to achieve the desired effect. The type is set in a version of Casion.

Cover designer James Jones admits that creating the cover art offered a unique challenge, as he hadn’t read any of Woolf’s work before starting on the project.

The new  and ongoing series includes Woolf’s novels, essays and diaries.

Said Jones:

What I really wanted to bring across … was the sense of colour and light that I pictured when reading her work.

And from Frances MacMillan, Vintage senior editor:

We wanted new jackets which would make potential readers rethink their ideas of this famous author; covers which presented Woolf as modern, relevant and surprising.

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Woolf on writing what you wish

Posted in quotes, tagged , , , on Thursday 13 November 2014| Leave a Comment »

Two weeks ago, I wrote what I wished to write, a piece offering the challenge to “Speak out for adjunct equity because your silence will not protect you.” Today it appears on The Feminist Wire. Thank you for the inspiration, Virginia Woolf. And thank you, Audre Lord, for the challenge.

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Blogging Woolf readers help launch new blue plaque

Posted in Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Monday 10 November 2014| 6 Comments »

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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Virginia Woolf among the feminists

Posted in A Room of One's Own, feminism, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Sunday 9 November 2014| Leave a Comment »

Did Virginia Woolf identify as a feminist? That was one of the questions I raised in a paper I presented at the 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which will be included in the Selected Papers from the conference, published in May 2015.

So imagine my satisfaction when during a visit to my local library, I spotted Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) smack in the middle of a section of feminist standards, sandwiched between Steinem and Ensler.

No surprise there. Room is a feminist classic mentioned daily in writing both personal and public. It also appears regularly on lists of books everyone must read and lists of books that have changed the world. It’s mentioned in stories about life-changing books. And it has inspired a women-centered foundation and provided the name for bookstores.

But I doubt Woolf had any inkling that would be the case 73 years after her death.

Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” is the skinny white-spined volume tenth from the left.

 

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