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A belated happy birthday to Mrs. Dalloway

Posted in Anne Fernald, Happy birthday, Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , , , , on Thursday 11 July 2013| 1 Comment »

I missed Mrs. Dalloway’s birthday two months ago. May 14 marked 88 years sincedalloway Woolf’s 1925 novel was published, a fact I noticed when I came across Anne Fernald’s essay, “Mrs. Dalloway at 88” on The Awl website.

Fernald’s essay was also republished on the website of London Fictions.

In her piece, Fernald gives eight compelling reasons why the book still matters today:

  1. Woolf makes us care about a fancy middle-aged lady throwing a party.
  2. The characters have great names that have interesting histories.
  3. It’s a great example of a novel set on a single day.
  4. Woolf deploys allusions to Shakespeare like a master.
  5. It continues to inspire other works of art.
  6. It’s full of London history.
  7. Even the random details are not random.
  8. We still need to remember to take care of veterans and we still don’t do enough.

Fernald, Woolf scholar and passionate feminist, is always worth following.

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Woolf sightings: A series of Woolf-related events

Posted in Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Monday 20 August 2012| Leave a Comment »

A series of Woolf-related events (1,5, 10)  and a new use for Virginia and Leonard’s former home in Richmond (4) take center stage in Woolf sightings this week.
  1. The History Girls Present: A Summary of Things So Far, Chortle
    Instead, they simply reimagine the likes of Boudicca, the Bröntes, Napoleon and Virginia Woolf with contemporary mentalities, casting them in a series of modern situations to ever diminishing returns. This might be perfectly watchable if almost …
  2. ‘Diaries’ by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, Boston Globe
    … have always been a record of what the writers feel, not just what they see and do. Whether it is the overwhelmingly intimate confidences of a Virginia Woolf or the more event-packed memoirs of Pepys and Boswell; the I, and the I’s emotions lie at …
  3. Ties That Bind: Canadian-Sri Lankan Partnerships, The Island.lk (subscription)
    Virginia Woolf once said that ‘nothing has really happened unless it has been described.’ Many would know by personal experience one or two facets of the Sri Lanka-Canada relationship. They would not be aware of the full story. What Ingrid Knutson has …
  4. Alchemy Viral Chooses to Support ETC Charity, Educating the Children, Melodika.net(press release) 

    Brooks House, 34 Paradise Rd., Richmond Upon Thames

    The company is based in Virginia Woolf’s house, in central Richmond. After considering various charities Alchemy Viral (AV) has chosen to support Educating the Children**,http://www.etceducation.org, a charity that fights for education for children in …

  5. Luna Stage Presents VITA AND VIRGINIA, 9/27-10/28, Broadway World
    Luna Stage presents the New Jersey Premiere of ‘Vita and Virginia’ by Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Directed by Jane Mandel, with previews running Sept 27-Oct 4 and opening night set for Oct …
  6. How the great writers published themselves, The Independent
    So did Walcott and Woolf. And what Marcel Proust, and Laurence Sterne, and Martin Luther, and Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound, and Emily Dickinson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jane Austen, and Derek Walcott, and Virginia Woolf all did, at least …
  7. ‘In Their Own Words’ explores British thinkers with stunning archival footage, HollywoodSoapbox.com
    In Their Own Words features six hours of endlessly interesting audio and visual footage of several iconic voices from the 20th century, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Sigmund Freud, Robert Graves and Virginia Woolf. Broken into six one-hour documentaries …
  8. All about art, but lacking in artistry, Irish Times
    As the prose is so strained, it is easy to speculate instead whether this novel is intended as an act of homage to Virginia Woolf. Stylistically, the two writers are worlds apart, and Woolf’s extraordinary third work, Jacob’s Room (1922), shaped by her…
  9. Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement, Examiner.com
    … from poetry, fiction, biography and autobiography to cinema and religious text. … The theme of freedom of movement running through the work, encompassing not only the oft-repeated need for women to have, in Virginia Woolf’s words, ‘a room of their …
  10. South Orange Professor Lectures on Virginia Woolf, Patch.com
    South Orange resident and Fordham University professor Anne Fernald launches a four-lecture book talk and lecture series on the life and works of Virginia Woolf. Fernald teaches English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus …
  11. 10 toughest challenges in literature identified, Hurriyet Daily News
    “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf is a novel written in 1927 that is “both intellectually and psychically difficult,” according to Wilkinson. “Not only is it hard to tell who’s who and who’s saying or thinking what, it is also disconcerting, even …
  12. ‘Breaking Bad’ recap: Episode 5, ‘Dead Freight’, Baltimore Sun (blog)
    Last week, after Skyler channeled Virginia Woolf and made a slow walk into a swimming pool her most obvious cry for help, it was time for “Breaking Bad” to get back to its increasingly complicated drug business. When Walt “defeated” Gus, he believed he …
  13. The beauty of ‘camping’, The Doings Western Springs
    Writers such as Henry Thoreau and Virginia Woolf have written long, exploratory narratives about the importance of solitude. We all have a fundamental need to be alone, to think, to recharge. And perhaps this is what I need more than a hike in the woods.
  14. Baby Names That End With The Letter ‘O’, Huffington Post
    Famed also as the enigmatic protagonist of  Orlando:_A_Biography, Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel, it has been brought into the modern world by British actor Orlando Bloom, not to mention …
  15. Picture books capture imaginations, StarPhoenix
    Virginia Woolf covertly chronicles the childhood relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell, through a story about a little girl who encourages her moody “wolfish” sibling to communicate through art. Isabelle Arsenault’s …
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Fernald on Woolf in Brooklyn

Posted in Anne Fernald, events, Mrs. Dalloway, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 8 August 2012| 2 Comments »

Anne Fernald, associate professor at Fordham University and the editor of a forthcoming edition of Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press, will give the first of four talks on Virginia Woolf at the Brooklyn Public Library, Aug. 22, from 3 – 5 p.m.

Fittingly, Fernald’s Aug. 22 talk will be on the topic of Mrs. Dalloway and will be held in the Central Library’s Reverend Elsie Smith Room.

The other three talks are:

Great Books: Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 5, 3 p.m.

Great Books: Virginia Woolf: Between the Acts
Date: Wednesday, Sept. 19, 3 p.m.

Great Books: Virginia Woolf: Moments of Being
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 3, 3 p.m.

All talks in the series will be held in the Central Library, Reverend Elsie Smith Room, Brooklyn Public Library. The series is made possible through Brooklyn Public Library’s Fund for the Humanities, established through the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Ask Anne about To the Lighthouse

Posted in Anne Fernald, events, To the Lighthouse, tagged , on Wednesday 18 April 2012| Leave a Comment »

Just saw this exciting news on Facebook: Anne Fernald will be one of several writers and public figures who will speak about favorite Virginia Woolf novel To the Lighthouse on April 24 at 7 p.m. at McNally Jackson, 52 Prince St. in New York City.

The event is billed as part book club, part lecture, part show and part social occasion. Read more at Ask Me About…To The Lighthouse | McNally Jackson Books.

Fernald is associate professor and director of writing and composition and writing at Fordham University. She blogs at Fernham. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006) and recently completed a new annotated Cambridge edition of Mrs. Dalloway.

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Podcast of Fernald’s “Editing Mrs. Dalloway” online

Posted in 21st century Woolf, Anne Fernald, Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf audio, tagged , , on Tuesday 18 January 2011| 5 Comments »

The virtual public square featuring conversations about Virginia Woolf is a reality. Anne Fernald, writer in residence at The New York Public Library’s Wertheim Study last year, just posted this news on Facebook: The talk she gave at the NYPL in October is now available online as a free podcast.

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“On Traffic Lights and Full Stops: Editing Mrs. Dalloway” focuses on her work preparing a textual edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) for Cambridge University Press. The 68-minute piece includes discussion of manuscript material housed in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library.

Fernald is an associate professor of English at Fordham University where she also directs the first-year writing and composition program and is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader (Palgrave 2006). She blogs at Fernham.

Other talks in the three-day Woolf lecture “festival” at the NYPL are available as free podcasts as well. They include:

Listen to more podcasts by or about Virginia Woolf.

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