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Louisville Conference call for papers on Woolf

Thursday 13 June 2013 by Paula Maggio

The International Virginia Woolf Society has issued a call for papers for its fourteenth consecutive panel at the University of lcLouisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, scheduled for Feb. 20-22, 2014.

The society invites proposals for critical papers on any topic concerning Woolf studies. A particular panel theme may be chosen depending on the proposals received.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit by email a cover page with your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, professional affiliation (if any), and the title of your paper, and a second anonymous page containing a 250-word paper proposal, to Kristin Czarnecki, kristin_czarnecki@georgetowncollege.edu, by Friday, Sept. 13.

Panel Selection Committee

  • Beth Rigel Daugherty
  • Jeanne Dubino
  • Mark Hussey
  • Jane Lilienfeld
  • Vara Neverow
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Clarissa Dalloway’s Walk through London, June 16th

Wednesday 12 June 2013 by Paula Maggio

For more on traveling in Virginia Woolf’s footsteps visit Blogging Woolf’s In Her Steps page.

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New Woolf work out tomorrow

Tuesday 11 June 2013 by Paula Maggio

The Charleston Bulletin Supplements, Virginia Woolf’s last known unpublished work, is being published by the British Library tomorrow, the first time the Supplements have been published since they were first written in the 1920s.

Announced earlier this year, the volume includes work, written or dictated by Woolf between 1923 and 1927 and published in The Charleston Bulletin’s Supplements in collaboration with her nephew, Quentin Bell. The pieces reveal a familiar, playful side of Woolf, as they describe incidents and individuals of her family and household, including servants and members of the Bloomsbury Group. Bell provided more than 40 illustrations.

David Bradshaw’s preface to the volume makes the connection between the Supplements, with their inside jokes and absurdities, and Woolf’s novels, such as Orlando. Claudia Olk, Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin, edited the project.

“We are delighted to share these childhood newspapers from the British Library’s archives with a wider audience in a new publication. The Supplements present fantastical narrative excursions into this illustrious family’s history, evoking imaginary details and building up fictional personalities. The writer and the illustrator, aunt and nephew, are united in their dislike of seriousness and boredom and they mercilessly target shallowness and hypocrisy,” Olk said.

The hardback volume is available for £12.99 from the British Library.

Read more about the Supplements:

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Woolf collection on sale for $4.5 million

Friday 7 June 2013 by Paula Maggio

A CNBC story reports on a collection of Virginia Woolf’s letters and other items that is for sale en bloc for $4 million. The letters are being sold by Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in Manhattan.

They include letters from Woolf to her nephew Julian Bell, as well as letters from Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell and Vita Sackville-West.

The most poignant, said Horowitz during the CNBC interview, is one written by Vita Sackville-West, describing Woolf’s suicide and the days leading up to the discovery of her body. “It’s really one of the most touching collections of letters I’ve had the privilege of handling,” Horowitz said.

The private collection was built over a period of 40 years by William B. Beekman, who started collecting Woolf items as a Harvard undergraduate before Quentin Bell’s 1972 biography brought her renewed interest from the academy, according to Horowitz’s site. Included in the collection are items that span Woolf’ life, such as photographs, letters, inscribed books and dust jackets.

Although the CNBC story put the value of the collection at $4 million, the Horowitz website prices it at $4.5 million. The collection was put on the market and exhibited in East Hampton last July.

In 2011, Horowitz published a digital catalog of Bloomsbury materials to its website. Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, and The Bloomsbury Group contains more than 150 first editions, association copies, letters and more.

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Follow Woolf conference live on Twitter

Friday 7 June 2013 by Paula Maggio

If you are a Virginia Woolf fan and can’t attend the 23rd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader in Vancouver, follow the conference via live tweets from woolfwriter.

If you are at the conference and have a Twitter account, add the hashtag #vwconf23 to your posts.

Read the collection of #vwconf23 tweets.

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