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After decades of publishing other people’s books, Cecil Woolf has written a monograph of his own. Cecil Woolf: The Other Boy at the Hogarth Press, Virginia and Leonard Woolf as I Remember Them is being launched at the 27th Annual International Conference on Virgina Woolf in Reading, England this week.
To order this monograph and others in the Bloomsbury Heritage and War Poets series, visit Cecil Woolf Publishers.
Posted in 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, events, Hogarth Press, Hogarth Press centenary, tagged Hogarth Press archives, Hogarth Press Centennial, Leonard Woolf, University of Reading Special Collections, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 28 June 2017| 2 Comments »
Sometimes things last longer than one would like. Other times, they fly by and seem much too short. My tour of the archives at the University of Reading Special Collections, part of the 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, fell into the latter category.
The tour of the archives focused on the collection of documents related to the Hogarth Press founded by Leonard and Virginia Woolf in 1917. We weren’t permitted to take photos, so I’ll describe what I saw.
The Hogarth Press documents nearly filled two stacks. Most of the 18 shelves contained boxes of documents — from letters to notebooks detailing the book income of the authors they published. Nearly three of the long shelves were filled with large leather-bound ledger books from the press. I wanted to linger and explore by hand but we had to move on.
Our next stop was an exhibition housed at the same location, which is also the Museum of English Rural Life. The Hogarth Press at 100 marks the importance of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s venture into independent publishing and book selling. It will be on display through Aug. 31.
The exhibition features contemporary artwork responding to a conference call for printed works. It includes original artwork, woodblocks, archival objects and documents from the archives of the Hogarth Press, held in the University of Reading’s Special Collections.
On the bottom shelf in one glass display case were two special items: nearly matching leather satchels, worn and creased with cracks, that belonged to the Woolfs. Virginia and Leonard carried them during their travels. And attached to Virginia’s was a faded blue tag leftover from a trip to France.
Because of copyright issues, we were not permitted to take photos, so I am longing for a website or a print catalogue that will share the items and art displayed.
Walking to the Museum of Rural English Life, which houses the Hogarth Press archive, as well as the Hogarth Press at 100 exhibition.
Museum of English Rural Life
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press at 100
Whoops! I snapped this photo at the beginning of the exhibition before I saw the sign instructing us not to take photos.
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When I arrived in Reading, England by train for the 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf at the University of Reading yesterday, I was too tired to notice The Three Guineas pub right across from the train station. But others did and they clued me in.
So when I went out to explore a bit last evening, that’s where I landed, thanks to conference keynoter Ted Bishop and Elizabeth Willson Gordon, who graciously invited me to tag along with them. Bishop, of the University of Alberta, Canada, will talk about Virginia Woolf’s inks, and Willson Gordon, of The King’s University of Edmonton, Canada, is part of a roundtable on the Modernist Archives Publishing Project. Her colleagues on the project are Claire Battershill, Simon Fraser University; Alice Staveley, Stanford University; Helen Southworth, University of Oregon; Michael Widner, Stanford University; Nicola Wilson, University of Reading.
As it turns out, the Reading pub’s name is not connected to Virginia but to a railway prize. Oh, well. I enjoyed the food, my London Pride brew, the cozy setting on a chill, rainy night, and the company anyway.
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Organizers of the 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, which is being held at the
The conference, which coincides with the centenary of the Hogarth Press, has a theme of “Virginia Woolf and the World of Books.”
It includes a showing of letterpress and hand-printed work as part
of the conference. Get more details on the call for printed works on paper.
Posted in 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, Hogarth Press centenary, tagged 27th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, University of Reading, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 1 September 2016| 1 Comment »
Call for papers: “Virginia Woolf and the World of Books” invites you to consider the past, present and future of Virginia Woolf’s works. Attendees are invited to submit papers relating to all aspects of the Woolfs, the world of books, and print cultures, including topics related to Leonard and Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press; the production, reception and distribution of Woolf’s works; editing, revision and translation; periodicals and book publishing; Woolf and her readers; global and planetary modernisms; Bloomsbury and its networks; Hogarth Press authors and illustrators; modernist publishing houses and publishers; Woolf and the Digital Humanities.
Abstracts: Abstracts should be between 200-250 words. Submissions should include a cover note with brief biography, affiliation, and contact details including email.
Abstract deadline: Abstracts are due Feb. 1, 2017. Send to to vwoolf2017@gmail.com.
For more information: Visit the conference website. Please direct any enquiries to vwoolf2017@gmail.com.
Conference rates: Day rates and reduced rates for students and the non-waged will be available.
