Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf sightings, tagged Alice Lowe, Arctic exploration, Baltimore Review, Virginia Woolf on Wednesday 15 February 2017| 1 Comment »
Read Alice Lowe’s post on her blog about her essay in the Baltimore Review to find out how she ties Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own to the topic of 19th-century Arctic exploration.
How did I come to write about 19th-century Arctic exploration? It started with a song, as I explain in my essay “The Idea of North.” One thing led to another, and I was off on a tangent…
Source: The Idea of North | Alice Lowe blogs … about writing & reading & Virginia Woolf
Posted in essays, Virginia Woolf, Woolf in Contemporary Fiction, tagged Alice Lowe, Fire and Stone, Priscilla Long, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf in contemporary fiction on Friday 16 December 2016| Leave a Comment »
Fire and Stone by Priscilla Long is an outstanding collection of personal essays encompassing
Priscilla’s life and family, her reflections on being an activist in Boston in the sixties, forays into science, literary influences, and more. Disclosure: In addition to being a remarkable writer, Priscilla is a good friend and my writing mentor.
I enjoyed reading in her essay “Throwing Stones” about how she “entered into the shadowy realm of American rebellion, into the sixties of pickets and protests and street marches and flag burnings … and danced all night and marched against the war and read Gramsci and Marx and Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf….”
But I was surprised when I found references to Mrs. Dalloway in two more essays in the same section: “The Musician” and “Dressing.” I knew Priscilla admired Woolf’s work, but I didn’t think she’d been a significant influence. So I asked her, “What’s with this?” She replied that she had written the essays at different times, had assembled the collection in a fitting order, but hadn’t realized there were Woolf references in three closely-sequenced essays.
When I delved into Woolf references in contemporary fiction* several years ago, I noted how they often were positioned to identify a time or a milieu in young women’s lives. They do that in Priscilla’s essays, but these aren’t fiction—Priscilla and her feminist cohort were reading A Room of One’s Own; young women were pondering the life and times of Clarissa Dalloway. I still find fictional references, and I read a number of personal essays every week. I frequently come across writers’ tributes to Woolf’s influence, or references to her novels or characters. Posters still hang in dorm rooms; Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are on many a beside table of many a woman, young and old, in fiction and in life.
*Editor’s Note: Alice Lowe’s monograph, Beyond the Icon: Virginia Woolf in Contemporary Fiction, is available from Cecil Woolf Publishers. You can also find more posts about Woolf in contemporary fiction.
Posted in Alice Lowe, Virginia Woolf, tagged Alice Lowe, Spry Literary Journal, Virginia Woolf on Tuesday 11 October 2016| Leave a Comment »
After having an essay published last year in Spry Literary Journal, I was invited to contribute to 
Spry’s ABC series. Writing for Beginners and Fiction Writing would be followed by the ABCs of Creative Nonfiction, and I could write on the letter of my choice.
I quickly claimed the letter “M” with its myriad manifestations–memoir, memory, motivation, and metaphor, to name just a few. And what about mentors and muses? I’d written a chapter, “A Muse of One’s Own,” for the 2014 book Writing after Retirement(yes, of course I spotlight Virginia Woolf!)–so I adapted it for this project.
Editor’s Note: You can finish reading this post on Alice’s blog: ABCs of Creative Nonfiction | Alice Lowe blogs … about writing & reading & Virginia Woolf
Posted in 26th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, contemporary fiction, Virginia Woolf, Woolf in Contemporary Fiction, tagged 26th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Alice Lowe, Catherine Hollis, gendered violence, Lidia Yuknavitch, The Small Backs of Children, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 8 September 2016| Leave a Comment »
At the 26th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, scholar Catherine Hollis 
made the connection between Virginia Woolf and Lidia Yukavitch’s novel The Small Backs of Children in her paper, “Thinking Through Virginia Woolf: Woolf as Portal in Lidia Yuknavitch’s The Small Backs of Children.”
Hollis was part of a fascinating panel titled “Woolf’s Legacy to Female Writers,” along with Eva Mendez, who spoke about Alice Munro, and Amy Muse, who spoke about Sarah Ruhl.
Hollis also wrote a review of Yuknavitch’s novel for Public Books in which she connects it to Woolf’s critique of gendered violence. “The Woolf Girl” appears in the December 15 issue of the online review site devoted to interdisciplinary discussion of books and the arts.
For more on the novel’s connections with Woolf, read Alice Lowe’s blog post, “Lidia Yuknavitch novel draws on Woolf.”
Posted in 11th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Alice Lowe, tagged Alice Lowe, Cecil Woolf Publishers on Saturday 4 June 2016| Leave a Comment »
Here’s Blogging Woolf contributor Alice Lowe’s essay on the work world for women in the not too distant past. She’s the author of two monographs published by Cecil Woolf Publishers:
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[This essay was originally published in Crab Creek Review, Vol. 2016, #1] But can she type? Back in the early 1970s, when my latent feminist consciousness was starting to awaken, I bought a poster, a 16 by 24-inc…
Source: But can she type?
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