Woolf Studies Annual, Volume 17, will be published next month. It will feature information about the newly discovered proof copy of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
Dr. Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library, has an article in the volume that discusses the variations between the proof copy and the first edition of Woolf’s feminist classic. An appendix of the variations is also included in the volume.
Details of the contents and the opportunity to place an early order at the discounted price of $32 may be found at the Pace UP website.
Make Room, Milkwood gallery – review, The Guardian
Supported by The Leverhulme Trust In an age of austerity, Virginia Woolf’s words still ring true under the spotlights of Milkwood Gallery’s latest exhibition Make Room. Yes, an artist simply must have ‘a room of one’s own’ but it’s certainly practical …
No one is sacrosant, Telegraph.co.uk
The Hours (1998) by Michael Cunningham featured Virginia Woolf writing Mrs Dalloway and committing suicide. EL Doctorow’s Ragtime (1975) contained a lavish assortment of “real characters” including Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Sigmund Freud. …
Magical elements: an interview with Uršula Kovalyk, Czech Position (blog)
In any case, I’ve always been fascinated by writers like GGMárquez, Isabel Allende, Virginia Woolf, that had magical elements in their work. I really dislike talking about my writing style though, because I’m not a literary theorist and honestly, …
MENTAL ILLNESS IS NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF, Daily Mirror
Author Virginia Woolf was manic depressive and so was England’s wartime Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. John Nash who won the Nobel Prize for Mathematics was diagnosed with Schizophrenia. So there is nothing to be ashamed of in becoming mentally … Continue Reading »
The money comes from the Heritage Lottery Fund and is part of £10 million in funding for a variety of projects, including those at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cardigan Castle, Ceredigion and the Royal Crescent, as well as Charleston.
Charleston, located in Lewes and the country home of artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, will use its funds to redevelop the building and museum into a new education and exhibition space for its thousands of annual visitors.
The expansion and restoration will include:
Restoration of the Charleston Barn
Recreation of the granary that stood on the site until the 1970s
Creation of new buildings in a hidden courtyard behind the barn
Creation of an auditorium, a new studio learning space, and storage for the Charleston Trust’s reserve collection of 8,000 works
Restoration of existing buildings, which will return Charleston to the way it looked in the 1950s.
Virginia Nicholson, granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, said: “I have known and loved this house and its surrounding buildings for more than 50 years. I played on the farm as a child, and I am delighted to think that Charleston has such an exciting future in the 21st century.”
Charleston also served as a country retreat for the writers, artists and intellectuals who made up the Bloomsbury Group, including Leonard andVirginia Woolf, whose country place, Monk’s House, was located nearby.
Nude readers of Woolf, you ask? Yes, and on stage no less. But that is just one Woolf sighting in a week of many. Links to forty-five of them are posted below, including the news that the last and final volume of Woolf essays — Volume six — is now out.
The Right Questions To Ask About Literature, Slate Magazine
Needless to say, the common reader (whom Garber condescends to as “a crucial ancillary part of the world of readers,” though she’s paraphrasing Samuel Johnson and Virginia Woolf and may dispute the “crucial” part) is not up to the task. …
Very fine verse of Heller, Holt, TheChronicleHerald.ca
Her voice sounds like Sylvia Plath mashed up with Virginia Woolf. A Gertrude Stein-like phrase, “the ins and outs of you and I,” is matched later by another, “Life without you is like life for worse / or better. And right now / I like better better. …
Sometimes, actors are celebrities. Other times, they play them.
Anthony Hopkins played Richard Nixon. (And Picasso). Will Smith played Muhammad Ali. Meryl Streep played Julia Child (and Virginia Woolf).
All of which brings us around to Calgary actor and producer Joel Cochrane’s new role. He’s playing Kurt Vonnegut, a famous dead novelist, in And So It Goes, the George F. Walker play that begins a . . .
