Thanks to Title Wave for Books, you can put the famous first line of Mrs. Dalloway on your behind. And you can even choose from among three colors for your pair of boy-style underpants.
Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself – Virginia Woolf
You can also put the quote under your head on a pillow and over your shoulder and at your side on a messenger bag.
You’ll find a variety of other commodities bearing the familiar quote here.
In Woolf sightings today, we have the odd mention of an author who swam “a spooky mile of the River Ouse” (10) and instructions for setting up “a room of your own” online (13).
There are also plenty of literary discussions with slim and broad connections to Woolf — one on the 1914 literary vanguard (7), “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (8), To the Lighthouse (16, 19) and travel reading in Istanbul.
‘Orlando’: Elizabethan tale with a twist, San Francisco Chronicle Virginia Woolf‘s 1928 novel “Orlando” set a precedent for stories straddling multiple genres and narratives. TheatreFIRST’s production of Sarah Ruhl’s …
Shock Therapy, The Portland Mercury VIRGINIA WOOLF walked into a river with stones in her pockets. Sylvia Plath wrote about the trauma of electroconvulsive therapy. And in Ellen Margolis’ new …
Book review: Mutton, By India Knight, The Independent I don’t believe in aging,” wrote Virginia Woolf as she approached 50. “I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.” Clara Hutt, the peri-menopausal …
Book World: ‘The Husband’s Secret’ by Liane Moriarty, Washington Post
The decades have shown that, too often — as Virginia Woolf once predicted — women write about what goes on inside the houses, and men get to claim ..
Tales across time, The Hindu
There are notable exceptions of course: S.T. Coleridge, T.S. Eliot, Matthew Arnold and Virginia Woolf, among others. Nearer home, in post-independence India, …
The Disquiet of Ziggy Zeitgeist, Wall Street Journal
I admired the sensibility of Virginia Woolf when she wrote: “On or about December, 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one …
May Sinclair: the readable modernist, The Guardian But 40 years of Virago’s modern classics have shown that Virginia Woolfwasn’t the only female author at the head of the literary vanguard, rediscovering and …
From the Stacks: “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid,” The New Republic
For most of her life, Virginia Woolf wrote quietly elegiac works, but in the 1930s she began to fashion herself into a kind of British conscience. “I’m just poised to …
A Meal of One’s Own, Wall Street Journal
In “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf noted that novelists tended to depict luncheon parties by recounting what was wittily said or wisely done, not what was ..
Lara Feigel’s ‘Love-Charm of Bombs’, New York Times 9, 1940, Virginia Woolf’s London apartment was hit by an unexploded bomb. A week later, the bomb went off, blowing up the entire house and destroying the …
A Room Of Your Own (Online), Huffington Post
To echo Virginia Woolf in her essay “A Room Of One’s Own,” every (person) needs a place of their own where they can dream and write and create. In Woolf’s …
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells, USA TODAY But again, I was reminded of another, better book: Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Hours, in which he played off Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway to draw devastating parallels between the First World War and the AIDS crisis.
Connolly/Shaw/Drake at the Wigmore Hall, The Times (subscription)
With Dominick Argento’s prose song cycle From the Diary of Virginia Woolf at its heart, Sarah Connolly, Julius Drake and Fiona Shaw set out to create an hour’s programme to capture for the listener something of the nature of Woolf’s own relationship to …
Books that changed me: Susan Holoubek, Sydney Morning Herald
Oh, Virginia Woolf! The acuity of your insight, those exquisite layers of paradoxical feeling, that startling attention to domestic minutiae. To the Lighthouse was on the University of Adelaide’s English I reading list in 1980. Blessings on the person …
Book Review: Low, by Anna Quon,National Post
In a letter to a friend in 1929, Virginia Woolf described her impulse to write A Room of One’s Own: “I wanted to encourage the young women,” she wrote, “they seem to get fearfully depressed.” Last September, in The Walrus, Stacey May Fowles surveyed …
A reminder of a masterpiece, The Ledger (blog)
I sometimes find the brief descriptions of books sophomoric, but Monday’s item reminded me of a truly great book, Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse.” Here’s the summary: “As a contemplation of marriage and family life, ‘To the Lighthouse’ has no …
with Caroline Zoob
Wednesday 4th September 2013, 11am-5pm
£50 including lunch and exclusive access to Monk’s House & garden.
Fancy spending a day embroidering with Caroline Zoob? There are still a couple of places remaining on the course organised by the National Trust at Monk’s House on Wednesday 4th September 2013. You need never have picked up a needle!
Spend a day with textile designer and embroiderer Caroline Zoob,
making a framed picture using vintage textiles and embroidery, inspired by the
beautiful garden at Monk’s House.
The course includes private access to Monk’s House garden with Caroline Zoob.
Caroline and her husband Jonathan were the last tenants at Monk’s House, where
they spent 10 years caring for the beautiful garden. After a walk around the
garden to gain inspiration, Caroline will show you how to translate your
photographs and sketches into textiles and hand-embroidery, using scraps from
her workroom. The course will be held in the Village Hall in Rodmell, which was
opened by Leonard Woolf in 1960 and is a focal point for many activities in the
village.
A full itinerary and menu will be emailed on booking.
Level: Any level – you do not need any previous experience of sewing or
embroidery for this course….promise! Booking Essential: By phone: 01273 749 467. If you have problems getting through, please call 01435 883136.
From the NT shop: Monk’s House, The Street, Rodmell, Nr Lewes, BN7 3HF For full events listings at Monk’s House visit:www.nationaltrust.org.uk/monkshouse For further press information please contact: Allison Pritchard, Assistant Property Manager, Monk’s House, The Street, Rodmell, Nr Lewes, BN7 3HF
01273 474760 email: monkshouse@nationaltrust.org.uk
‘Our Garden is a perfect variegated chintz: asters, plumasters, zinnias, geums, nasturtiums & so on; all bright, cut from coloured papers, stiff, upstanding as flowers should be.’
Virginia WoolfAbout Monk’s House
‘Dropped beneath the downs’, Monk’s House is a tranquil 17th Century weatherboarded cottage that was home to the 20th Century literary icon Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard. The Woolfs bought Monk’s House for the ‘shape and fertility and wildness of the garden’. Today, the lovely cottage garden contains a mix of flowers, vegetables, orchards, lawns and ponds and is perfect for picnics. Many of Virginia’s famous novels were penned in the writing room at the bottom of the garden.
This animation of the Great Frost scene in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando was shared at the 2010 Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf in the Natural World
It is one of the longer segments included in a TV film titled Simple Gifts that was first broadcast by PBS at Christmas 1977. The animation is the work of Hungarian-American Tissa David, and it is accompanied by Jacobean-style music and narration by Hermione Gingold.
