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On Vanessa Bell’s Birthday: 30th May 1879

Posted in Bloomsbury, Vanessa Bell, tagged , , on Tuesday 31 May 2016| Leave a Comment »

Vanessa Bell née Stephen was born on this day in 1879. A key member in the creation of the Bloomsbury aesthetic, Vanessa was a prolific worker and over the course of her life produced vast quantiti…

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Deadline is June 5 for Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize

Posted in International Virginia Woolf Society, tagged on Saturday 28 May 2016| Leave a Comment »

The deadline for receipt of entries to the Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize, sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society, is June 5.Virginia Woolf

This is the second annual undergraduate essay competition in honor of Virginia Woolf and in memory of Angelica Garnett, writer, artist, and daughter of Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell.

Essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf and should be between 2,000 and 2,500 words in length, including notes and works cited, with an original title of the entrant’s choosing.

Essays will be judged by the officers of the International Virginia Woolf Society: Kristin Czarnecki, president; Ann Martin, vice-president; Alice Keane, secretary-treasurer; and Drew Shannon, historian-bibliographer. The winner will receive $200 and have the essay published in the subsequent issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Please send essays in the latest version of Word.

To receive an entry form, please contact Kristin Czarnecki at kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu.

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Virginia Woolf in the machine age is focus of new IVWS Miscellany

Posted in call for papers, International Virginia Woolf Society, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, tagged , , , , , on Friday 27 May 2016| Leave a Comment »

The latest issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Fall 2015/Winter 2016, Issue 88 is now available vwm88fall2015spring2016-cover1online, according to Vara Neverow, managing editor of the publication, which is published by the International Virginia Woolf Society.

Ann Martin, guest editor, has focused the issue on the special topic of “Virginia Woolf in the Modern Machine Age.” The special topic section of the issue includes eight essays and a poem.

The issue includes information about the 26th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf (there’s still time to register!) and also includes the Call for Papers for the Second Annual Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize ($200 and publication in the subsequent issue of the VWM).

The “Truly Miscellaneous” section of the issue features three contributions, one of which is a poem. The issue also includes calls for papers (including CFPs for future issues of the Miscellany), seven book reviews, the International Virginia Woolf Society column, and two generously discounted offers for published collections of essays on Virginia Woolf.

The print version will be available shortly.

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Elaine Showalter takes us to London to discuss “Mrs. Dalloway”

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Wednesday 25 May 2016| 4 Comments »

This 18-minute video produced by the British Library for its twentieth-century literature site and featuring Elaine Showalter is an excellent introduction to Mrs. Dalloway for first-time readers. But it will also enlighten those who have read the novel over and over again.

In it, the American critic and writer takes us to London for a discussion of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel. We view 1920s London streets and traffic; take a look inside 46 Gordon Square, Woolf’s first home as an independent woman; and get a look at the novel’s original hand-written manuscript.

In addition, Showalter explains the artistic, social and historical context for the groundbreaking novel that takes place on one day in June in 1923. You can also read her article on the topic, “Exploring consciousness and the modern: an introduction to Mrs Dalloway,” on the British Library website. At that link, you can view 165 images of Woolf’s notebooks for the novel and for her essays published in The Common Reader (1925).

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Bloomsbury Group interior designs on exhibit in Bath this summer

Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, tagged , , on Monday 23 May 2016| Leave a Comment »

The new major summer exhibition at the Bath & North East Somerset Council-run Bloomsbury Rooms: Modernism, Subculture, DomesticityVictoria Art Gallery will recreate some of the famous Bloomsbury Group’s interior designs. The exhibition, A Room…

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