For anyone who reads and loves Virginia Woolf, St. Ives is a magical place. Take a trip back in time by viewing old footage of that Cornish town.
From the BBC iPlayer comes “Cornwall: This Fishing Life,” with series 2, episode 4, focusing on St. Ives. It includes old black and white film footage of the place where Woolf and the Stephen family spent their summers until she was 12.
Nineteen seconds of color film footage of St. Ives from Claude Friese-Greene’s The Open Road (1926) a fascinating social record of inter-war Britain. The St. Ives snippet below is available on the British Film Industry‘s YouTube Channel.
And just for fun, check out the video below of a model railroad version of St. Ives, circa the 1950s, created by a former St. Ives resident. In this eight-minute video, he adds his own memories, along with details about constructing the layout. Stuart Clarke of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain shared this video and notes that we “may” be able to see Talland House at the 4-minute, 32-second mark.
Cecil Woolf stops at 46 Gordon Square, London, while giving Blogging Woolf a personal tour of Bloomsbury in June 2016.
The call came a few weeks ago. Woolf scholars and friends were asked to provide video clips of five minutes or less that would share our memories ofCecil Woolf, who passed away June 10, 2019, just over two years ago
The project was the brainchild of Drew Shannon, associate professor in the Department of Liberal Arts at Mount St. Joseph University and organizer of the 2019 Virginia Woolf Conference, and Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Cecil’s widow.
It is not the final product, however, as this is is an ongoing project. Plans are in the works for continuing to celebrate and remember this beloved man, who was a friend, colleague, and publisher to so many people around the globe. The nephew of Leonard and Virginia is greatly missed by all who knew him.
Meanwhile, we hope this tribute video gives those who never had the opportunity to meet Cecil a glimpse into the charming and endearing man he was.
Get ready to celebrate Dalloway Day on two days, June 16 and 19. And thanks to a variety of digital events being planned, you can join the celebrations of Woolfians across the pond without leaving your home.
Go live from Hatchards with the VW Society of Great Britain
This year’s Dalloway Day will be a Zoom event on Saturday, June 19, presented live from Hatchards, Piccadilly, an afternoon celebrating Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs Dalloway’s Party” and the art of the short story past and present.
The theme is “Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories” and speakers include Karina Jacubowicz, organizer of the ‘Virginia Woolf Podcast’ for Literature Cambridge, Woolf scholar and novelist Maggie Humm, and poet Cathy Galvin of the Word Factory, which ‘support[s] the next generation of short story writers’.
Book your FREE place on Eventbrite for this event set for 2-4 p.m. BST and 9-11 a.m. EST.
— Virginia Woolf Society GB (@VirginiaWoolfGB) June 13, 2021
Celebrate with the Royal Society of Literature and the British Library
We are coming up to the ‘Wednesday in mid-June’ where we annually partner with @RSLiterature to celebrate the life and works of Virginia Woolf on #DallowayDay. This year we unspool the complex relationship between Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
Book here:🔗https://t.co/XaHBbcqNv6pic.twitter.com/c8p8JClSkE
— The British Library (@britishlibrary) June 10, 2021
Some are free to the public or to RSL members. Others range in price from £3 to £5. A £25 annual digital pass covering all RSL events is available as well.
Ahead of #DallowayDay celebrations next week, I am sharing artworks inspired by #VirginiaWoolf‘s ‘The London Scene: Oxford Street Tide’ in which she takes on the role of flaneuse, as she responds to the fragmented & sensory experience of the modern city. https://t.co/2zk2AMgnz2pic.twitter.com/QQPWaRV9KK
— Louisa Albani artist (@louisa_albani) June 13, 2021
Screenshot from the Sunday Zoom session on “Rethinking the Dreadnought Hoax” with Danell Jones.
Are we all Zoomed out and ready for a walk in the fresh air? The 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held virtually for the first time via Zoom, is now over. And while seeing each other in tiny boxes was wonderful, we missed being together in person.
But kudos to conference organizer Ben Hagen, assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota and president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, for pulling off this amazing virtual event.
Below is a selection of some of the most recent tweets found at the conference hashtag #vwwoolf2021.
One of the beauties of this online format is for #Woolfians to be taking part in rooms of their own. It’s great that we can all get books down from the shelf to discuss passages.
I loved seeing all those shelf-lined rooms too. #vwoolf2021📚
Glad I stayed up for the ecocritical panel at #vwoolf2021. First Lucien Darjeun Meadows delivered a wonderful paper on the queer forests of The Voyage Out and now we hear from @LeLoHo_ on ecocritical insights gleaned from reading the holograph drafts of The Waves.
Fascinating panel on Woolf and things. Great to hear Ann Martin on #Woolf and #cars again! Imola Nagy-Seres on #Woolf’s toy boats and Geoff Bender provides a new angle on Woolf’s elegiac writing with ‘Jacob’s body as Vibrant Matter’. #vwoolf2021. #LS2
Carrie Rohman delivers a powerful and moving final keynote at #vwoolf2021 on the “devitalization” of women and minorities within the academy and the necessity more than ever for the searing critique we find in Woolf and other feminist texts. Truly moving.
Kelly Svoboda explores the affect in Woolf’s writing by asking how does art reflect our lives? (Silence, reflection, lack of movement, recognition) #vwoolf2021@vwoolf2021
Currently in #K3 “Performing Philosophy, Performing Journalism, Performing History” where Audrey Johnson is arguing that Woolf transgresses the romantic/scientific divide of history and Diana Royer looks at how Woolf method of using diary entries within her essays #vwoolf2021
Heading into morning sessions for the final day of #vwoolf2021! First up: “Orlando Plays at Court” with panelists Kristin Rajan, Rhoda Mayne, and Zoe Kemp’s-Harris for papers on Gucci, ice dancing, and Knole House. 💫 @zozietropes
Wonderful discussion of Suzanne Bellamy’s Woolf and Bloomsbury inspired art in the breakfast session and the need for an archive/repository for Woolf art #vwoolf2021
The most time-consuming aspect of preparing my presentation for @vwoolf2021 was definitely trying to pinpoint photographs of Woolf on the walls of Shakespeare and Company. pic.twitter.com/SCyjjcF1gB
We are in the midst of the 30th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which for the first time is being held virtually via Zoom. Postponed last year due to COVID-19, the conference began Thursday and runs through tomorrow. There’s still time to get a day pass.
Below we are sharing a selection of tweets found by following the conference hashtag #vwwoolf2021.
Thank you so much @vwoolf2021 & @Bdavidhagen for what was the most heartfelt, humane & moving conference opening I’ve ever attended! Woolfians really are the loveliest people #vwoolf2021
Really fascinating presentation by @MollyVolHall (#AS1) at #vwoolf2021, where she connects English stones & land to English identity & insidious nationalism: “To prevent fascism by foreign invasion, suggests Woolf, one must first become attentive to fascist histories at home.”
Wonderful illustrated paper by Catherine Hollis @inisfree66on her experience of following in #LeslieStephen’s footsteps on the Schreckhorn. #vwoolf2021
The inspirational Beth Rigel Daugherty reflects on how she helped her students find their voices
And on how Woolf’s experience as a tutor at #MorleyCollege gives pause for thought and how Woolf’s practice as a writer provides encouragement. #vwoolf2021
Rozzoni turns to Woolf’s ‘Kew Gardens’ to test out how Woolf’s writing about plants might intervene in contemporary discussions around how we understand plant life #vwoolf2021
Such rich connections @telekineticrose makes between Woolf’s views of motherhood’s effects on creativity and Joni Mitchell’s own experiences and music, indeed! Emphasis on the music: what a treat to listen to some during this presentation. #vwoolf2021https://t.co/daQyVhsb3T
I’m blown away by these three papers on Woolf, medicine, and illness. Very poignant and robust readings by Micah Hussey, Christopher David Jones, and Emilee Stenson that truly underscore the importance of science and the humanities working together. #vwoolf2021
.@elaerose points out that “Thirty Minutes in a Street” is set on a single day in June and includes a scene where observers look up at a plane – within a month of seeing it Woolf was at work on Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street. Some fascinating connections here! #vwoolf2021
Such fun visiting the Modernisms–Xtended Virtual Gallery Reception! It takes a bit of patience to get in (I had to connect a proper mouse for it to work properly) but it was worth waiting.
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