Technically, I’m on spring break. I have had a break from teaching and preparing for classes, but I haven’t gone anywhere. No sun, no sand, no waves tickling my toes.
So I pushed my current project aside and took a three-minute beach break in St. Ives, Cornwall, where Virginia Woolf spent her summers until the age of 12.
Join me there now. I’ve got the sunscreen.
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Watch this video about the Bloomsbury Project, which investigated the growth of Bloomsbury in the 19th century. In it, project director Professor Rosemary Ashton and researcher Dr. Deborah Colville share their research and insights. You’ll also see some interesting video footage. It’s almost as good as being there.
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Laurence is the author of Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes
After she attends tonight’s performance of Room, Woolf scholar Patricia Laurence will write a review of the play based on Virginia Woolf’s writing.
Laurence is is a writer, critic and professor of English at Brooklyn College, the City University of New York.
The play is on stage through March 27 at the Julia Miles Theater, 424 W. 55th St., and Blogging Woolf readers can get half-price tickets by using the code you will find at this link.
Read more about Woolf’s Room on stage in NY March 12-27.
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I already spend too much time on my laptop — way too much on some days. And now I’ve gone and opened a Tumblr blog.
I can only guess what this will do to my free time. Whatever that is.
What got into me? Good question. I took a look at the Tumblr blogs of Hearts Asunder, Megan Branch and Ann Fernald, clicked on the archive link of each, and I was hooked. It just looks so cool.
My new Tumblr blog, Woolfwriter, will give me a place to post small bits about Woolf, as well as miscellaneous stuff I come across that I want to share.
Besides what I post on Facebook and Twitter, I mean.
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The beauty of the world, which is soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
Do pay a visit to Hearts Asunder before the month is out. It’s a 28-day blog that illustrates the Woolf quote above.
Another thing the Tumblr blog does is show how common readers are inspired by Woolf — and how they combine 21st-century pop culture and technology to share that inspiration.
These same common readers also connect Woolf to current events. For example, Hearts Asunder creator Brianna Goldberg posted a piece that links Woolf to this week’s devastating tsunami in Japan. On a lighter note, a blogger describes Woolf’s reaction to the news of the late Pope John Paul II’s forthcoming Facebook page.
The RSS feed of the most recent Hearts Asunder posts are at the top of the sidebar at the right. And to make sure you don’t miss anything, take a look at the clever archives display of the online collaborative writing project too.
The site is definitely worth the trip. Read more about the project concept to find out why.
Hearts Asunder archives
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