Posted in Bloomsbury, events, tagged Bloomsbury Group, reading, Valentine's Day, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Thursday 8 February 2024| Leave a Comment »
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain invites all members to a free members-only
When: Wednesday, Feb, 21, 5:30 p.m. GMT
Where: On Zoom. Members will be sent the Zoom link.
What: An evening of readings by members about love and relationships from Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
How: If you are not already a member of the society, join now to participate.
Posted in Bloomsbury, drinks, Virginia Woolf, tagged Bloomsbury Club, recipe, Virginia Woolf cocktail on Wednesday 13 December 2023| 1 Comment »
The Virginia, a cocktail once served at The Bloomsbury Club in London.
It’s the holiday season, so it seems like a good time to share a recipe for a cocktail named after Virginia Woolf.
Shared by The Literary Hub earlier this year, The Virginia Woolf features rum, peach syrup and lemon juice.
Here is the recipe.
The Virginia Woolf
2 shots oaked amber rum
¾ shot peach syrup*
¾ shot fresh lemon juice
Garnish: mint
Add all ingredients to a shaker filled with ice and shake vigorously. Strain through a fine strainer into a Nick and Nora glass. Gently press mint with fingers to release oils, and garnish.
*Peach Syrup:
In a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan, simmer 2 small peaches (sliced into small pieces) and basic simple syrup for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, allow to cool, and strain.
This is not the first time we wrote about a Virginia Woolf cocktail.
Back in 2018, I wrote about my visit to the Bloomsbury Club in the Bloomsbury Hotel on London’s Great Russell Street. There, I ordered the Virginia, a yummy mix of gin, lemon, raspberry shrub, Cocchi Americano and egg white.
Sadly, a recent visit to the club’s website indicates that the club’s Bloomsbury-themed cocktails are no longer being served.
The Bloomsbury hotel is also the site of The Dalloway Terrace.
Editor’s Note: Woolf scholar and author Maggie Humm informed us that The Bloomsbury hotel serves Woolf-themed cocktails. She recommends the Mrs. Dalloway.
Posted in Bloomsbury, podcast, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Folger Shakespeare Library, Marjorie Garber, Shakespeare on Thursday 2 November 2023| 2 Comments »
Shakespeare and Bloomsbury. They may not seem to go together, but they do. And the
In episode 221, Harvard Professor Marjorie Garber explains how modernist writers of London’s Bloomsbury group made Shakespeare their own. In this conversation with Barbara Bogaev, she discusses the threads of Shakespeare that run through Woolf’s novels, how Lytton Strachey changed our perspective on Shakespeare’s late plays, and what got her interested in the Bloomsbury Group in the first place, according to the website.
Garber is the author of Shakespeare in Bloomsbury (2023), in which she traces the influence of Shakespeare on the members of the group, which included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, Vanessa Bell, Dadie Rylands, Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, and others.
What surprised me was how widespread it was . . . they are all writers and they’re interested in style, but no matter what they’re writing about, Shakespeare comes in. . . He is for them the pinnacle of a certain kind of intellectual achievement.
Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, events, tagged Bloomsbury, Charleston on Friday 11 August 2023| 1 Comment »
Charleston is coming to Lewes, Sussex.
In September, the venerable location of Bloomsbury in the country will open a new venue in the former district council offices in Southover Road in Lewes that will feature a shop, a pop-up café pop-up café operated by Lewes-based Caccia & Tails, and a free program of co-produced community projects, artist-led workshops, gallery activities, and a learning program.
Charleston, 2019
The effort is the first step in bringing 100 of the most important Bloomsbury works back to Sussex and providing a growing Bloomsbury archive in a central location that is accessible to researchers and visitors.
Two free exhibitions will be featured during the venue’s first season, which will run Sept. 13 through Jan. 7, 2024:
Here is what Nathaniel Hepburn, director of Charleston, has to say about the project:
“Since Charleston reopened after the pandemic, we have been working in partnership
“It is exciting to be able to announce plans to launch this space in time for a major cultural season happening across Sussex to coincide with the largest contemporary art prize in the world – Turner Prize – being hosted in Eastbourne. It’s a great moment to put Lewes on the map as an important part of the region’s cultural offer.”
According to the Charleston website:
It is not a new idea for the Bloomsbury group to explore creating a cultural centre in Lewes. During the Second World War, the economist John Maynard Keynes, alongside Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, worked on a project for the precursor of the Arts Council, making designs for a theatre and art gallery – with a café – for small towns across the country, using Lewes as a model.
Posted in A Room of One's Own, Bloomsbury, tagged A Room of One's Own, Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square, Virginia Woolf on Friday 14 July 2023| Leave a Comment »
Want to stay in a Bloomsbury bedroom dedicated to Virginia Woolf that is also on the site of a home formerly occupied by Virginia and Leonard Woolf? Maybe you can.
The site of the building at 37 Mecklenburgh Square in which Virginia Woolf lived.
The Woolfs lived on the top floor at 37 Mecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury, during the London blitz from 1939-1940, according to Jean Moorcroft Wilson’s Virginia Woolf Life and London: Bloomsbury and Beyond (1987/2011).
Now on that site is the William Goodenough House, which is part of Goodenough College. It has one student-style bedroom dedicated to Virginia, and each year that room is allocated to a literary student who, upon arrival, finds a copy of A Room of One’s Own on their bedside table.
Naida Babic was a student at Goodenough College in 2021. She recently met up with College Director Alice Walpole and friends to install a framed copy of one of her poems outside the room dedicated to Woolf, next to Woolf’s commemorative plaque.
She explains: “I was living at Goodenough College while completing the last term of my MA Creative Writing programme at Birkbeck University, London. I wrote my poem “In the Hand of Virginia” during my poetry module.”
To commemorate the occasion, Maggie Humm, emeritus professor of cultural studies at the University of East London and the author or editor of 14 scholarly books and two novels, as well as Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf’s Society of Great Britain, gave a lecture on “The Photography of the Writer Virginia Woolf and Her Sister, the Artist Vanessa Bell.”
Maggie Humm talks about Woolf’s photography and how it relates to her writing at Dalloway Day 2018 at Gower Street Waterstones.
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