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On June 22, 1897…

Posted in Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 31 December 2014| 1 Comment »

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The Sally Seton-Clarissa Dalloway kiss and data privacy

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf online, tagged , , on Wednesday 31 December 2014| Leave a Comment »

Ever wonder about how the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway might change if her characters participated in social media?

Well, let me introduce Joshua Rothman, who writes about ideas and books for NewYorker.com and is also the archivist at The New Yorker. He explores that concept in an interview on data privacy.

In it, he speculates about how Clarissa Dalloway’s life might be affected if a photo of her kiss with Sally Seton, an event she never shares with anyone, had been posted on Instagram, for example. He also wonders how her memory of that kiss would be affected.

Rothman and the other participants in the interview speculate about how the digital age is changing the process of forgetting and forgiving — and forcing us to remember things we may want to forget.

Because in a digital age, forgetting is costly and hard, and remembering is the default. – Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

You can read the article, “Big Data, Virginia Woolf, and the Right to be Forgotten,” or download the podcast on the Policy Innovations website.

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Woolf birthday performance sold out

Posted in A Room of One's Own, events, tagged , , , on Monday 29 December 2014| Leave a Comment »

In celebration of Virginia Woolf’s birthday, Sarah Blake will perform A Room of One’s Own at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at 7 p.m. Sadly, though, the event is sold out. But you can place your name on a waiting list by emailing cabinetsofcuriosity@talktalk.net.

The free performance will take the audience back to the 1928 lecture that forms the basis of the argument that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write.”

Read an interview with Blake about adapting Woolf’s polemic for performance and an article in The New Statesmen about women’s ongoing fight for a place of their own.

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Woolf’s words on Christmas Day 1931

Posted in Lytton Strachey, quotes, tagged , , on Thursday 25 December 2014| Leave a Comment »

Lytton [Strachey] is still alive this morning. We thought he could not live through the night. It was a moonlit night. Nessa [her sister] rang up at 10 to say that he has taken milk and tea after an injection. He had taken nothing for 24 hours and was only half-conscious. This may be the turn or it may be nothing. Now again all one’s sense of him flies out and expands and I begin to think of things I shall say to him, so strange is the desire for life. – Virginia Woolf”s Diary, 25 December 1931

For quotes from more authors regarding their Christmas week blues, read this Dec. 22, 2014, article in The Independent.

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Woolf covers–old and new–for your viewing pleasure

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged on Wednesday 24 December 2014| 1 Comment »

Thanks to The Gold Standard for the first collage below. The second one came from a Google search.

Woolf book cover collage

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