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Submit panel proposal for 2008 MLA Convention by Dec. 13

Posted in a blog of her own, International Virginia Woolf Society, MLA, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Monday 26 November 2007| 4 Comments »

MLA logoBonnie Kime Scott, president of the International Virginia Woolf Society, announces that members of the society are invited to submit a panel topic for the next MLA Convention in 2008, which will be held in San Francisco. The deadline for proposals has been extended to Dec. 13.

Kime Scott notes that this is a call for whole panels, not individual paper proposals. She asks that you submit only one topic please.

Members should submit the following: 

1. A 35-word description of your panel (word count must include the title).
2. The name(s) and contact information of the proposed organizer(s), i.e. e-mail, snail mail, preferred telephone number, institutional affiliation, if any.
3. Deadline by which the organizer(s) wish to receive submissions (usually March 15).
4. The format for submissions (500-word abstract, full-length paper, etc.). All of the above should be submitted to Bonnie Kime Scott electronically or by mail. Electronic submissions are strongly preferred. Please type “Woolf  Society Panels MLA” in the subject line of your e-mail.

Panel proposal submission deadline is Dec. 13, 2007. Voting on the resulting proposals will be completed by Dec. 30, to meet MLA deadlines.

If you would like to propose your own special session, visit the MLA Web site for instructions.

Contact: bkscott@mail.sdsu or Bonnie Kime Scott, President IVWS, Dept. of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-6030. 

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Connect the dots to Virginia

Posted in a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, books, Hermione Lee, Leonard Woolf, Leonard Woolf: A Biography, Victoria Glendenning, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Friday 23 November 2007| Leave a Comment »

Leonard Woolf bio coverWe’ll have to wait until Nov. 28 to find out the 10 best books of the year chosen by the editors of the New York Times Book Review.

But the Times list of the 100 Notable Books of 2007 is available now. And it includes books with a Woolf connection.

Connect the dots that lead to Virginia from the tomes listed below.

Non-fiction

Fiction

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Vanessa is Bloomsbury belle in one-woman show

Posted in a blog of her own, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog on Wednesday 21 November 2007| Leave a Comment »

Kara Wilson as Vanessa BellIn Bloomsbury Bell, Kara Wilson uses her skills as a writer, painter, and actress to tell the story of Vanessa Bell’s reaction to her sister Virginia Woolf’s death in 1941.

The one-woman play features Vanessa at her easel at Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex just a few weeks after Virginia Woolf’s suicide in the nearby River Ouse. While Vanessa paints, she shares her thoughts with Virginia, according to a story on living.scotsman.com. During the monologue, Wilson puts brush to canvas to create a portrait of Woolf.

Wilson says her inspiration for the play, which she wrote, included the letters the two sisters wrote to each other, as well as Jane Dunn’s book, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell: A Very Close Conspiracy.

Wilson’s solo show is playing at Lyon & Turnbull, Broughton Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, on Nov. 23 -24, Tickets for the Edinburth production are available from www.karawilson.co.uk. For more information, call 0207 435 2225.

Bloomsbury Bell was also staged at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

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Poet and novelist with Bloomsbury ties dies at 91

Posted in a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, Bloomsbury, books, Duncan Grant on Thursday 8 November 2007| 1 Comment »

Paul Roche, the poet and novelist who conducted a long-term relationship with Bloomsbury artist Duncan Grant, died Oct. 30 at the age of 91. Read The Telegraph story or a later account in the New York Times. 

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Woolf letters offered at auction in London

Posted in a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Woolf Letters on Thursday 8 November 2007| 4 Comments »

Anyone with £7,000 to £10,000 to spend and the flexibility of traveling to London next Wednesday might be interested in the following e-mail, sent to the VW Listserv today.

It offers news about typed letters sent by Virginia Woolf to Mrs. Motier Harris Fisher in August of 1940, while Woolf’s summer home was exposed to air raids during the Battle of Brittain, which raged over Sussex and Kent.

The letters, which indicate Woolf’s state of mind during that traumatic time, will be offered for sale at a Christie’s auction Wednesday.

Then again, a flight to London isn’t necessary. You can view the auction offering online and get the full details right from your desktop. Or you can register to watch, hear and bid on Woolf’s letters from the comfort of your home PC.

Copied below is the text of the e-mail message sent from the account of Molly Marple.

Greetings to the group.

I have some letters and a manuscript which my mother-in-law is auctioning at Christies, King Street, London next Wednesday 14th November. Valuable Printed Books & Manuscripts, lot 56. The lot is somewhat hidden amongst so many really old manuscripts I’m fearful that nobody has been able to see them.

The letters were typed by Virginia Woolf and discuss with Mrs. Motier Harris Fisher the submission of the text for Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid. The essay manuscript was written in August 1940. There is discussion about submitting the essay to “The Forum” and “New Republic”. Some of the text is re-printed in the auction catalogue and on-line. If anyone is interested I can copy the text to another message.

The documents were handed down to to my mother-in-law by her mother, Mrs. Motier Harris Fisher. We don’t know if there was a connection between Mrs. Fisher and Virginia Woolf other than a business relationship.

I hope this is of interest to the group.

Barbara

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