Here is news about projects from Woolf scholars around the globe.
Maggie Humm’s new book, Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual, published by Edinburgh University Press, is now out and receiving much acclaim. Read about it on USA Book DNA and on the EUP blog.
The book provides a survey and analysis of feminist criticism from the 1970s and an historical account of UK women’s writing from 1900 to the present. It also brings together Humm’s pioneering work on feminist literary criticism, Virginia Woolf, film and visual cultures.
Look below for the code to get a 30 percent discount on Snapshots from EUP.
Humm is an emeritus professor and vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain whose last book was The Bloomsbury Photographs.
Yolanda Hartshorne and Woolf’s shorter fiction
“A Spatial Reading of Virginia Woolf’s Shorter Fiction” a Ph.D. thesis by Yolanda Hartshorne is now openly accessible online under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND).
In it, she places Woolf’s texts in their non-fictional historical contexts in an effort to understand the societal expectations of the times.
Hartshorne is also the author of “The Business of Marriage in Virginia Woolf’s ‘Phyllis and Rosamond”: Conventional and Transgressive Spaces” and was awarded Distinction Cum Laude from the University of Oviedo, Spain.
Martin Ferguson Smith and two books
Martin Ferguson Smith, professor emeritus of Classics, Durham University and member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain who is now in his eighties, has two new books out.
- Urbi et Orbi: The Epicurean Inscription and Prescription of Diogenes of Oinoanda Tab Edizioni, Rome, March 2026, paperback and Open Access
- Martin the Epicurean (autobiography), SilverWood, Bristol, 15 April 2026, paperback and ebook. For other information, including about the earlier books of the writer’s eighties, In and Out of Bloomsbury (2021; paperback 2023) and The Artist Helen Coombe (2023), visit http://www.martinfergusonsmith.com
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