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Hogarth panel for Denver conference proposed

Posted in 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, call for papers 2, Helen Southworth, Hogarth Press, Hogarth Press centenary on Tuesday 27 November 2007| Leave a Comment »

Helen Southworth, assistant professor of literature of the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon,  announces that she is trying to put together a panel or two on the topic of the Hogarth Press for the 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf scheduled for June 19-22, 2008, in Denver, Colorado.

Her efforts are designed  to tie in with the edited volume for which she issued a call for papers in August. Click here for details of Southworth’s call for papers.

Southworth says she is looking for papers that deal with the following:

  • stories of authors, artists, and workers published by and/or associated with the Woolfs’ press
  • papers that expand on Willis’ history of the Hogarth Press.

Anyone interested in submitting a paper to the edited volume or becoming involved in a conference panel, should contact Southworth as soon as possible.

Contact information:
Helen Southworth
Clark Honors College
University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403

The deadline for Denver panel proposals is now Jan. 11. 

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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 »

We’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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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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Editors invite contributions to 2001 conference volume

Posted in 11th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, a blog of her own, Blogging Woolf, books, call for papers 2, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf, VWoolf Listserv, Woolf blog on Tuesday 30 October 2007| 1 Comment »

Guest editors Jane de Gay and Marion Dell invite submissions to the Selected Papers from “Voyages Out, Voyages Home”: The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, which was held in Bangor, North Wales, June 13-16, 2001.

The volume will be published by Clemson University Digital Press.

“Although some time has now passed since the conference, the International Virginia Woolf Society is keen to see this volume in print (and online), in order to have a complete set of selected papers from the annual conferences. All speakers at the Bangor conference are therefore invited to submit their paper for consideration,” the editors wrote in a message to the VW Listserv.

“Papers should be no more than 4,000 words in length, and presented in MLA format. In order to preserve the flavour of the conference as far as possible, we ask contributors to submit the version they presented in 2001, preserving the tone of the talk as it was given. Necessary corrections and judicious updating are welcome, but we do not encourage submission of a fully-developed article that has been published elsewhere.

“However, contributors are welcome to include (within the 4,000 words) an optional Afterword of 2-300 words, looking back on the paper in the light of subsequent developments, or indicating how the paper fed into their more recent research,” the editors wrote.

“As an additional feature of this volume, we plan to compile a bibliography of publications arising out of papers given at the conference. We therefore encourage all contributors to let us have full publication details of any such articles, even if they do not wish to submit a paper for this volume,” the editors added.

Paper Submissions

Send papers by e-mail to: Jane de Gay at j.degay@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Deadline

January 1, 2008

Guest Editors

Dr. Jane de Gay

Senior Lecturer in English

Leeds Trinity and All Saints, UK

Marion Dell MA

Associate Lecturer in Literature

The Open University, UK

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