Members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain will spend Valentine’s Day with Virginia Woolf
Letters will include those between Woolf and Vita Sackville-West.
The meeting and reading of romantic letters will take place via Zoom on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 8 p.m. GMT or 3 p.m. EST. Members of the VWSGB can register by emailing Marielle O’Neill at onlinevwsgb@gmail.com.
If you are not a member of the group, find out how you can join.
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The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain began its celebration of our beloved author’s 139th birthday virtually on Saturday via Zoom with Professor Maggie Humm’s talk on “The significance of birthdays to Virginia Woolf.”
Members toasted Woolf and shared favorite quotes from her work.
The Society also shared this quote and photo on its Facebook page:
Once a year champagne is fizzier, food tastes better and the sun – when it shines – shines brighter. Celebrate with the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and join us in wishing the wonderful Ms Woolf a happy birthday!
Birthday photo posted on Facebook by the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
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Tomorrow, Jan. 25, is Virginia Woolf’s birthday. And you can celebrate by joining a conversation about 
Filmed in 2015, the light-hearted conversation between the publisher and the noted author of biographer of World War I poets is being held to celebrate Virginia’s 139th birthday as well as to publicize the on-going campaign to honor her with a statue.
The online event runs from 2 to 2:50 p.m. EST and you can purchase a ticket for £3.83 on Eventbrite.
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In my world of creative nonfiction and literary journals, Virginia Woolf never ceases to be an inspiration for writers. Here are two recent contributions:
One panel in the Woolf display in the foyer of the Virginia Woolf Building at King’s College, London
In USC’s Air/Light Journal, Emily Hodgson Anderson writes in “No Room of One’s Own” that “…in frustrated moments as a writer, I feel Woolf’s resentment of my state. If I were a man, I think, or, if I had more money, more room, more time . . . perhaps I would emerge as Woolf’s cryptic Judith Shakespeare, my genius freed from the domestic labor of my life.”
“As Woolf knew, illness, like trauma, lingers, even after we think we’ve recovered,” writes Gabrielle Bellot, exploring the complexity of detailing sickness in the age of COVID at Lit Hub, in “Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness and Disability.”
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Attention, Woolf readers around the globe. Literature Cambridge, which went virtual with its study sessions when the coronavirus hit, is in the midst of a Virginia Woolf Season that you won’t want to miss.
I, for one, have logged on to several sessions and plan to sign up for as many as my schedule will allow. Not only do I enjoy learning more about Woolf, it’s also fun to see old and new Woolf friends from all over the world, while benefiting from their knowledge and interest in Woolf.
The online classes, which explore Woolf’s major works in consecutive order, began in October with The Voyage Out (1915) and run through June 2021 with Between the Acts (1941). Each two-hour class via Zoom is taught by a Woolf expert from the UK and features a one-hour original lecture followed by a question and answer session.
Lisa Hutchins, who lives in Cambridge and is a former journalist turned college archivist, is penning blog posts on the Woolf Season. She wrote one on The Voyage Out and another on the lecture covering Night and Day: Tea and Tradition.
The cost is £26 at full price and £22 for students, CAMcard holders and members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.
Lisa Hutchins, who lives in Cambridge and is a former journalist turned college archivist, is penning blog posts on the Woolf Season. She wrote one on The Voyage Out and another on the lecture covering Night and Day: Tea and Tradition.
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