Blogging Woolf

To help celebrate the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s 1922 novel Jacob’s Room, the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain has gathered some online resources. We share them here, with thanks to the VWSGB.

• Read Jacob’s Room
  Read the 1960 Hogarth Presss edition on Internet Archive.
• Read “The unconventional novel”
  Read “The Unconventional Novel,” a review of Jacob’s Room, published in The Guardian, 3 November 1922 and republished 20 July 2002.
• Participate in the VWoolf100 Centenary Readathon
  Tweet your thoughts on Jacob’s Room to @VWoolf100 with the hashtag #JacobsRoom100. Read more.
• Take Jacob’s Walk
  VWSGB member Robert B. Todd on Jacob’s London; includes “Jacob’s Walk.”
  Read more.
• Listen to the Virginia Woolf Podcast from Literature Cambridge
  “100 years of Jacob’s Room,” with Karina Jakubowicz, novelist Susan Sellers and King’s College Cambridge archivist Peter Jones. Read more and listen.
• Read the guest blog post from Literature Cambridge
  “Jacob’s Room: A Novel without Heroes:” a guest blog post about a lecture by Alison Hennegan from 12 December 2020.
• Read “Comparing Woolf’s Jacob’s Room and Beethoven’s Third“
  By Urmila Seshagiri, editor of the Oxford World’s Classics Jacob’s Room (2nd edition, OUP, 2022, on the Oxford University Press blog.
• Read an introduction to the novel
  This introduction to Jacob’s Room is by US writer and teacher Danell Jones.

As we head into the evening in the UK, it’s by no means too late to join in with #JacobsRoom100. Why not snuggle up in the autumn darkness with #VirginiaWoolf’s extraordinary 3rd novel, 1st published 100 years ago today? How does it feel to read the book on its 100th birthday? 🎈 pic.twitter.com/URenon94Ul

— Virginia Woolf 100 (@VWoolf100) October 27, 2022