Thank you to everyone who entered the Blogging Woolf Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day Ticket Giveaway, in collaboration with
@woolfsnightandday and @quiverdistribution. We now have three winners, each of whom will get a pair of tickets to a U.S. screening of the film.
And each shared their answer to the optional question “How did you meet Virginia Woolf?”
Tickets for the “unromantic comedy” based on Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel are available for purchase at this link.
Winners in the Blogging Woolf Night & Day Ticket Giveaway
- Sherry Arendt
- Kathleen Dixon Donnelly
- Diane Gillespie
Here’s how our winners first met Virginia
Sherry Arendt’s answer to “How did you first meet Virginia Woolf?”
I became aware of Virginia Woolf in the 1970s. She sounded fascinating, and over the years I bought many of her books. However, I didn’t read them; my high school teachers had convinced me I wasn’t smart enough. So, instead, I went out into the world, earned a living, and took care of animals and people.
Then lockdown. My life moved online. Having realized there are worse things than somebody’s unimaginative assessment of one’s intelligence, I took on a zoom book club that had lost its organizer. We started with Mrs. Dalloway. Being retired, and having the books, I managed. We do Woolf: novels, letters, essays, diaries, short stories; and the Woolf-adjacent: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, T. S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell, the trench poets, Sappho, Shakespeare. Wherever my members want to go. The wonderful people who come every week have made me the most fortunate woman in the world. Every week, five years, and counting. Common readers all.
Diane Gillespie’s answer to “How did you first meet Virginia Woolf?”
We met in Mrs. Dalloway’s London, introduced in the 1960s by Professor Sarah Youngblood, one of the few women English Department faculty members at the University of Minnesota. I’ve kept in touch with Virginia Woolf through her writing ever since. Accompanied by Professor Shirley Rose, we conversed through my dissertation years at the University of Alberta. We collaborated on seminars I taught at Washington State University where the Leonard and Virginia Woolf Library resides in Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections. Virginia Woolf continues to inspire much of what I write and publish in my retirement years.
Kathleen Dixon Donnelly’s answer to “How did you first meet Virginia Woolf?”
When I’d heard of something called the “Bloomsbury Group,” and started my research into writers who hung out together…
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