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Woolf sightings: A London mural, a soup, and more

Posted in feminism, Virginia Woolf, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , on Thursday 27 December 2018| 2 Comments »

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Virginia Woolf and a water closet of her own — in duplicate

Posted in 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, art, Bloomsbury, London, Tavistock Square, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , , , on Thursday 20 December 2018| 2 Comments »

I’d heard the rumor — that a Virginia Woolf “collage” could be spotted in the ladies room of London’s Tavistock Hotel. But I did not expect what I actually found.

Tavistock Hotel in Bloomsbury, London

I went in search of the hotel’s unusual homage to Woolf after the 28th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf in June at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England.

The clerk at the Tavistock’s front desk directed me to the lobby level ladies room, where I expected to see a lone framed Woolf collage on the wall near the door or the sinks.

Loo decor

I found something entirely different. The wall behind each toilet in each ladies room stall was decorated with a long framed graphic featuring Woolf and her works. Each was cut to feature a different element of her work.

Luckily, the ladies room was unoccupied when I entered, so I was able to take a photograph of each stall. However, some of my photos are a bit tipsy, due to the fact that I had to prop each stall door open with my foot while hurriedly snapping individual pictures.

I made sure to include the commode and toilet tissue roll in the photo when I could manage it, as evidence that this Woolf sighting actually took place in a loo. 

 

The hotel’s Woolf & Whistle serves light meals and beverages.

Traditional afternoon tea is also offered at the Tavistock Hotel’s Woolf & Whistle.

 

About the Tavistock

Blue plaque honoring Virginia and Leonard Woolf installed to the left of the front entrance of the Tavistock Hotel.

The hotel is famous because it is built on the site of Virginia and Leonard’s flat at 52 Tavistock Square, in which they lived from 1924-1939.

A blue plaque commemorating that fact was unveiled on the exterior of the building in April.

 

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Modern Couples exhibit in London includes four from Bloomsbury

Posted in art, art exhibits, events, tagged , , , , , , , , on Wednesday 12 December 2018| Leave a Comment »

Virginia and Vita. Virginia and Leonard. Vanessa and Roger. Vanessa and Duncan. All four of those Bloomsbury couples are included in the exhibit “Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde” at The Barbican Art Gallery in London through Jan. 27, 2019.

According to promoters:

Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, literature, sculpture, photography and design. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving, from Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera, Emilie Flöge & Gustav Klimt to Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West.

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Free talks at Lucy Cavendish College

Posted in events, tagged , , on Monday 10 December 2018| Leave a Comment »

Free talks will be held at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, England, in the new year and all are welcome.

Literature Cambridge lecture at Girton College in July 2017

Here’s the schedule

  • Tuesday, 15 January 2019, 1:00 pm. “Isobel Maddison on Elizabeth von Arnim and Virginia Woolf: Love, Marriage, Expiation.”
  • Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 1:00 pm. Professor Dame Gillian Beer on “Modernist Alice.”

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More on Virginia Woolf in Richmond

Posted in Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 5 December 2018| 2 Comments »

Read more on Virginia Woolf in Richmond by Peter Fullagar — with a photo endorsement by the beloved Cecil Woolf — on the White Shadow in the Basement blog. The article comes to you via Published Author.

You can also read Blogging Woolf’s interview with the author.

Peter Fullagar

Peter Fullagar with his new book “Virginia Woolf in Richmond”

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