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The Woolf Salon is back,after a seven-month hiatus. Woolf Salon No. 26: Faces and Voices is set for Friday, Feb. 23, 2-4 p.m. ET.

The details

Event: Woolf Salon No. 26: Faces and Voices
Hosts: Salon Conspirators
Day: Friday, Feb. 23
Time: 2–4 p.m. ET (New York)
Where: On Zoom
How: Contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

The readings

To cover the topic “Faces and Voices,” participants will spend some time with Woolf and that (in)substantial territory between prose and poem and prose poem and sketch and draft and experimental collaboration.

Intrigued? Join in for a discussion of “Portraits,” “Uncle Vanya,” and “Ode WrittenPartly in Prose on Seeing the Name of Cutbush Above a Butcher Shop in Pentonville.”

You can find all three selections in The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf, 2nd ed. (pp. 237–47, with Susan Dick’s notes on 307–08). (If you don’t have a copy, you may find this link helpful.)

How to join the Salon

Anyone can join the group, which meets via Zoom and focuses on a single topic or text. Just contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

Future Salons planned

  • Friday, April 19, at 2 p.m. ET – Woolf Salon No. 27: The Miscellany at Issue 100
  • Friday, July 26, at 2 p.m. ET – Woolf Salon No. 28: TBA

The last Woolf Salon, Woolf Salon No. 25: Party Time, was held July 28.

Background on the Salon

The Salon Conspirators — Benjamin Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

 

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Marielle O’Neill and Elte Rauch. Photo copyright by Marielle O’Neill.

Marielle O’Neill, executive council member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, joined publisher HetMoet for the launch of its Dutch translations of Am I a Snob? by Virginia Woolf and The Wise Virgins by Leonard Woolf.

About the launch

Hosted by HetMoet, publisher Elte Rauch and bookstagram influencer Corina Maduro, the Jan. 26 launch event included a panel discussion with translators Jetty Huisman, Thomas Heij and Pauline Slot.

Featured speakers included:

  • Woolf scholar Marielle O’Neill, who is undertaking a PhD. on Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s political activism at Leeds Trinity University,
  • Rindhert Kromhout, who wrote a trilogy of young adult books about the Bloomsbury Group from the perspectives of Quentin and Angelica Bell, and
  • actor Milou van Duijnhoven, who recently starred in an Amsterdam-production of  Orlando.

Elte Rauch mixes a Stinger at the Amsterdam book launch. Photo copyright by Marielle O’Neill.

The event included 1920s jazz music, along with shakers full of Vita Sackville-West and Violet Trefusis’ favorite cocktail, the Stinger, a concoction of brandy and creme de menthe.

“It was wonderful to see Virginia Woolf being read, discussed and celebrated 142 years after her birth. And it was especially refreshing to see a spotlight being shone on Leonard Woolf; an influential and important political thinker and — with Virginia — a pioneering publisher,” O’Neill said.

About the translations

Hetmoet published the first Dutch translation of On Being Ill in 2021.

Moments of Being was first published in Dutch 40 years ago, and the same translator, Leonoor Broeder, has done this modern translation of the work, retitled as Am I a Snob? The current translation of The Wise Virgins is the first-ever in Dutch.

Louisa Albani designed the book covers. Ilse van Oosten edited the volumes and wrote the foreword for Am I a Snob.

HetMoet is a Dutch indie publisher run by Rauch, who recently set up HetMoet’s UK imprint, The New Menard Press, with Anthony Rudolf, who wrote the foreword for The Wise Virgins.

Leonoor Broeder’s translation is excellent. [This Dutch edition deviates] from the original by arranging the texts chronologically, but that works out fortunately. The separate parts thus form a coherent whole that reads like the autobiography that Woolf was unable to complete (while his husband Leonard could not stop and published a six-part autobiography). – Koen Schouwenburg, De Groene Amsterdammer

Rindhert Kromhout. Photo copyright by Marielle O’Neill.

Jetty Huisman, Thomas Heij and Pauline Slot. Photo copyright by Marielle O’Neill.

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NKP Theatre Company’s production of a 50-minute abridged adaptation of Eileen Atkins’ play  Vita & Virginia will be on stage for four more performances February through April.

An earlier performance was held in November at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham.

Dates and locations

Date: Saturday, Feb. 17
Times: 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Coach House Theatre, Malvern

Date: Wednesday April 3
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

Date: Thursday, April 4
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Katie Fitzgerald’s, Stourbridge

About the play

This is a 50-minute abridged version of the play by Eileen Atkins, created for an intimate setting by NKP Theatre Company. In it, Virginia Woolf meets fellow author Vita Sackville-West in London in the 1920s. They embark on a 20-year relationship that inspires one of Virginia’s most famous novels, Orlando.

Abridged from the original play by Eileen Atkins, Vita and Virginia deftly brings to life the real letters and diaries of the two women, revealing deep friendship, wit and passion between the literary genius and the aristocratic yet middle-brow poet.

Ticket prices and how to book

Prices vary but are around £15.
Book here.

Emma Francis and Ruth Cattell smash it. Each gives incredible, powerful, provocative yet heart-felt, down-to-earth performances. – Edinburgh Review

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Katherine Mansfield

The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain will hold its Annual Birthday Lecture 2024 at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27.  Dr. Gerri Kimber will give the lecture, “Endgame: The Untidy Deaths of Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf.”

Who: Kimber is a visiting professor in the Department of English at the University of Northampton and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, as well as former chair of the International Katherine Mansfield Society. She is currently writing a biography of Mansfield.

What: The lecture will be followed by a birthday cake and wine reception. Attendees will receive a printed copy of the lecture.

Where: The lecture will be given in Lecture Theatre MAL 532 on the fifth floor of Birkbeck, University of London, Torrington Square, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 7JL.

Cost: £30 for members of the Society and £35 for non-members; priority booking for members runs from the date of this email to the end of October.

Booking: Email eventsvwsgb@gmail.com for further details and to book.

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The website for the 33rd Annual International Conference on Virignia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology is now live.

Jean Moorcroft Wilson was also a featured speaker at the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held in June 2023, at Florida Gulf Coast University.

On this website, you can find the call for papers, submission information, and details about the conference, which will take place at California State University, Fresno, between June 6-9, 2024.

Excursions

Pre-and post-conference excursions are to Yosemite National Park on June 5 and to Sequoia/Kings Canyon on June 9. Panels are in person;  plenary events will be streamed online for a registration fee.

Plenary speakers

The conference will feature plenary speakers Jane Goldman, Vara Neverow, Emilia Raczowska, Paul Saint-Amour, Sonita Sarker, Drew Shannon, and Jean Moorfcroft Wilson, and artists and poets Ane Thon Knutsen, Brynn Saito, and Mai Der Vang. Get more details.

Call for papers

Submissions are open for paper, panel, workshop, and exhibition proposals. The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 15, 2024.

Get the call for papers.

Get more information

Dr. J. Ashley Foster is the conference organizer. Please email woolf2024@mail.fresnostate.edu with any questions.

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