Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Wednesday 18 July 2018| Leave a Comment »
The results are in. The winning quote in the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s query posted on its Facebook page is:
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – A Room of One’s Own
You can read all four of the quotes short-listed for the competition, which was held in celebration of #DallowayDay. The VWSGB says it will hold a similar vote to celebrate #DallowayDay next year.
Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Friday 13 July 2018| 1 Comment »
As we reported earlier, the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is asking Woolf readers to vote for their favorite quote 
Here’s the VWSGB’s Facebook query:
Thanks to all those who emailed or Facebooked their favourite Virginia Woolf quotations. We received a great variety, but have shortlisted the following five. Just vote for your favourite using the number next to it. If you voted earlier, you can choose the same one or another, and you can make your message public or reply privately. But please vote! #vwquotevote
1) Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. (Mrs Dalloway)
2) In the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
(Mrs Dalloway)
3) Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour – landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one’s hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! With one’s hair flying back like the tail of a race-horse. Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard …
(‘The Mark on the Wall’)
4) Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. (A Room of One’s Own)
5) Nothing is simply one thing. (To the Lighthouse)
Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, quotes, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Tuesday 12 June 2018| 1 Comment »
In conjunction with #DallowayDay 2018 the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is asking Woolf fans for their favourite Woolf quotation.
Don’t worry about the exact words; organizers say they can probably find the one you mean.
Here’s what to do. Just click on the ‘Send Message’ button on the VWSGB Facebook page and type in your favourite Woolf quotation, where it comes from and a few words about why you like it, and the group will add it to the list.
The VWSGB needs quotes by the third Wednesday in June, which most Woolfians consider to be the day on which Clarissa Dalloway takes her walk around London and holds her party. This year, as in 1923, when the novel is set, this falls on Wednesday 20 June.
When all ideas are collected, the top five will be listed and members will be asked to vote for one of them by 30 June. Results will be announced in early July.
Posted in books, events, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged birthday lecture, Frances Spalding, The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Tuesday 2 January 2018| Leave a Comment »
Location for the talk is Waterstones, 82 Gower Street, London.
Tickets are £5 and £3 for students and are available online or by telephone 020 7636 1577.
Posted in Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, Woolf sightings, tagged Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf on Sunday 24 September 2017| 1 Comment »
From the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain come several Woolf sightings. Read on for details.
Julia Jackson, as photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron
