Posted in Virginia Woolf on Monday 12 October 2015| Leave a Comment »
Here’s a blog post about the state of girls today, with an appropriate tie-in to Virginia Woolf, including her short story “A Society.” It comes via the Lost and Found Books blog. It’s titled “Wes Anderson, and the #DayoftheGirl.”
Thankfully, in the tradition of Woolf’s society of girls, my daughter is asking questions. Lots of questions. Let’s hope she gets the right answers. And learns to ignore the wrong ones.
Posted in call for papers, tagged call for papers, Virginia Woolf Miscellany on Monday 12 October 2015| Leave a Comment »
The due date for submissions to the spring 2016 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany is Oct. 15.
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Call for Papers: A Truly Miscellaneous Woolf Miscellany
Spring 2016 Issue of Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Submissions due: 15 October 2015
Essays requested on any topic related to Virginia Woolf. All topics and approaches are welcome; however, we have particular interest in essays on post-colonial, eco-critical, LGBT, and historical topics. PLEASE NOTE that this CFP replaces the CFP for “The Woolfs and Africa;” however, papers on Africa are especially welcome, including but not limited to the following topics:
Please send queries and submissions to Diana L. Swanson at dswanson@niu.edu<mailto:dswanson@niu.edu> .
Essays should be between 2,500 and 3,000 words and use MLA citation style. Submit files in Word or RTF format.
Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf and war, tagged Hitler's Black Book, Nazism, Virginia Woolf, World War II on Friday 9 October 2015| 3 Comments »
A photograph of Hitler’s “Black Book,” or “hit-list.”
The DailyMail.co.uk is reporting that historians have “digitized the first full English translation” of Adolf Hitler’s “Black Book,” which contained the names of many British figures whom he planned to have arrested (or killed) if Germany were to take over Britain.
Although there were once around 20,000 copies of the list, according to the Daily Mail, “only two are said to exist today.”
From the Daily Mail article:
Historians have painstakingly researched all 2,820 ‘enemies of the state, traitors and undesirables’ who were ‘marked for punishment or death’ that featured in the Nazi leader’s so-called Black Book.
The result is a comprehensive digitized database that reveals who the wanted citizens were, why they were a threat to the Nazis and what was to become of them.
The list is made up of hundreds of prominent politicians, authors, poets, journalists, actors, scientists, musicians, heads of industry and religious leaders.
English novelist E.M. Forster was also listed in Hitler’s “Black Book” as an “enemy of the state.”
Both Leonard and Virginia Woolf are on the list. Virginia was classified in Hitler’s list as an “enemy of the state.”Other famous writers on Hitler’s list include:
Read the Daily Mail article to see other Brits who were on Hitler’s list and learn more about Hitler’s “Black Book” and SS-Oberführer Walter Schellenberg, the man responsible for compiling the book.
You can also access the list itself, which consists of 144 pages and 2,813 names. Virginia and Leonard are on Page 277.
Posted in Virginia Woolf on Thursday 8 October 2015| 1 Comment »
Pattern design is central to the art of Bloomsbury. And as a new pair of interns starts their tenure at Charleston, the outgoing attic interns share some of the beautiful designs they discovered.
Posted in art, Virginia Woolf, tagged Eleanor Crook, Kings College, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf building, wax work on Friday 2 October 2015| 2 Comments »
Eleanor Crook is creating a life-sized Virginia Woolf that will be presented, fully dressed, inside a room of her own — a wooden wardrobe.
The finished wax work Woolf will be placed in the foyer of the newly refurbished Virginia Woolf building at 22 Kingsway at King’s College, London.
by Lady Ottoline Morrell, vintage snapshot print, June 1923
Crook, a sculptor and medical artist, will dress her creation in clothing modeled after the dress, shawl and hat Woolf wore in a 1923 photograph taken by Lady Ottoline Morell. It pictures Woolf sitting side by side on a garden bench with Lytton Strachey. She is smoking.
According to Crook’s website, she was asked by the historian Dr. Ruth Richardson and by King’s College London to make the wax version of Woolf.
You can view her progress on the sculpture by viewing photos Crook has included on her website. She expects the work to be finished in October.
Woolf was a student at the former King’s Ladies’ Department where she took classes in Greek, Latin, history and German between 1897 and 1902.
The #waxwork #VirginiaWoolf is getting cast tonight https://t.co/7Jc4utpTbi pic.twitter.com/QW15W4YJmw
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) October 1, 2015
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Progress on the #VirginiaWoolf #waxwork , sneaking up on a likeness, pressing on. http://t.co/7Jc4utpTbi pic.twitter.com/lBHbYvOMZM
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) September 30, 2015
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Early stages of modelling on the #VIrginiaWoolf #waxwork for @KingsCollegeLon pic.twitter.com/YzGVdHNaX0
— Eleanor Crook Sculpt (@CrookEleanor) September 27, 2015
