Posted in Charleston Farmhouse, films, photography, river ouse, Virginia Woolf, Woolf on TV on Friday 22 January 2016| Leave a Comment »
This video from UK TV – BBC2’s “The Culture Show” features Patti Smith’s views and photographs of sites connected to the Bloomsbury Group, from Charleston to the River Ouse.
In it, she muses on the special silvery light of the English countryside that shimmers in her black and white photos of Bloomsbury country sites.
Posted in photography, tagged Garsington album, Lady Ottoline Morrell, NPG, Virginia Woolf on Friday 3 October 2014| Leave a Comment »
Society hostess Lady Ottoline Morrell’s photograph albums provide a record of guests at her homes in London and Garsington, Oxfordshire and are featured in the exhibition. You can explore her Garsington album online, which includes images of Woolf and her circle.
Posted in art exhibits, events, photography, tagged National Portrait Gallery, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 6 August 2014| 2 Comments »
“Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and 
Below are some comments from lucky visitors to the exhibit who posted their thoughts to the list this week:
“I saw the show last week and was captivated. I particularly enjoyed the section on Woolf and public transport! That said, there was a glaring, dismaying mistake in one of the captions. Under a first edition of Ulysses, Harriet Shaw Weaver is identified as the “owner of the Shakespeare & Company bookshop in Paris” who approached the Hogarth Press about publishing the full book. Of course Weaver was the editor of The Egoist, who serialized Ulysses and yes approached the Woolfs. Sylvia Beach was the owner of Shakespeare & Company, who finally published the book herself, at great personal expense, and as far as I know had no dealings with the Woolfs or Hogarth.” – Laura
“I was lucky enough to have my trip to London coincide with the exhibit. I wish it had not been so crowded, as it was hard to pace myself, but I was so glad to get the chance! The book that Spalding has compiled for the exhibit 
“Frances Spalding has done a wonderful job of creating a narrative through visual artefacts. Those photos by Ott can actually be seen on the NPG website, I believe. I was surprised by Mark Gertler’s painting of Koteliansky (?Kot?): quite irrationally I had always imagined Kot as an ascetic and tiny man, but in this portrait he looks like a big burly businessman! There are some real rarities in the show?the bound volumes of letters that Violet Dickinson returned to VW late in life; I had not ever known Violet annotated these (of course, under glass one can only see a page, but the prospect is tantalizing); also the actual Gestapo list on which L & VW’s names appear. And yes, the catalog is very rich and interesting. I am in London doing research for a biography of Clive Bell, so was lucky to be able to see this wonderful exhibition.” – Mark Hussey
If you’re visiting the exhibit, tweet your thoughts using the hashtag #NPGWoolf. By searching tweets with that hasthtag, I found this review on another WordPress blog in which the writer says the exhibit left her “inspired to firstly read everything she’s ever written (starting with Orlando) and secondly, to journal in a more dedicated way.”
Posted in 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, photography, tagged 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Woolf conference photos on Friday 13 June 2014| Leave a Comment »
Now online via Flickr: A small collection of photos from the 24th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Writing the World in Chicago.
Have any you’d like to share? Send them along to Blogging Woolf.
View the photos here or by clicking on the link in the right sidebar under the heading Woolf Snaps. Read more about the conference.
Posted in photography, St. Ives, Virginia Woolf, tagged old photos of St. Ives on Thursday 12 July 2012| 1 Comment »
Virginia Woolf spent summers at Talland House in St. Ives, Cornwall, until her mother, Julia Stephen died in 1895. And her novel To the Lighthouse (1927) was inspired by Godrevy Lighthouse, which she could see from her summer home.
So when I read the news that Godrevy Lighthouse will replace its winking white dual beam light with modern LEDs, I was prompted to do some ambling around the Web.
In the process, I found photos of St. Ives that date from the 1890s to the 1940s. Take a look at these old photos of St. Ives. I promise you will be charmed.
And while you are at it, view color film footage of the harbor and streets of St. Ives, Cornwall, and of the streets of London in 1924, during Woolf’s time. You can get the back story on this project and watch the video here.
