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The Bell of the Ball

Posted in Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Friday 1 May 2015| Leave a Comment »

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Look behind the scenes at Charleston Farmhouse

Posted in art, Charleston Farmhouse, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Monday 20 April 2015| 2 Comments »

Oh, the lovely connections we make in the world of Woolf. This time, the connection gives us all a behind-the-scenes look at Charleston, the Sussex site known as Bloomsbury in the country.

Alice Purkiss, a curatorial trainee at The Charleston Trust, contacted Blogging Woolf via a Facebook message last week to ask that we help publicize The Charleston Attic. The blog was created by Purkiss and fellow trainee Dorian Knight, who just left the project. His replacement at Charleston is Samantha Wilson.

In existence one year,The Charleston Attic shares the trainees’ research at the former home of Vanessa Bell and her family and includes discussions of Woolf and her works. According to the blog, it “is a record of our work cataloguing, researching and interpreting the Angelica Garnett Gift from the Charleston attic – overlooked by a bust of Virginia Woolf.”

Recent posts of particular interest to Woolfians include:

The curatorial trainee project with the Charleston Trust provides for six-month training periods for a dozen trainees over three years.

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Lecture at NPG on Woolf and Charleston

Posted in Charleston Farmhouse, events, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Friday 1 August 2014| 3 Comments »

Oh, if only I were in London this month. There’s so much for Woolfians to do. Below is a screenshot of the Aug. 21 National Portrait Gallery Late Shift event, a lecture titled “`Absolutely Divine’: Virginia Woolf and Charleston.”

The NPG is celebrating Woolf with a special exhibit, “Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision,” now through Oct. 26.

NPG Charleston event

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Recreating Charleston in a room of one’s own

Posted in Charleston Farmhouse, Rooms of Our Own, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , on Friday 8 November 2013| 1 Comment »

In “Forgive me, Virginia Woolf,” Melissa Bellinelli shares the story of how she created a Charleston-style dining room of her own in a sunny Long Island home.

Her inspiration came from taking a class on Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group at Oxford, along with her frequent visits to Charleston Farm.

She remembered the details — the black stenciled walls, the hand-painted round table and the chairs designed by Roger Fry — and decided to mimic them in the dining room addition she and her husband built. So she ordered the reproduction chairs and the Biblioteque wallpaper — and went on to create her fantasy room, in two different incarnations.

Here are some other Charleston links of interest:

The Bloomsbury Crowd Pinterest

Charleston slideshow

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Take a moving look at Charleston Farmhouse

Posted in Charleston Farmhouse, films, tagged , , , , on Friday 14 June 2013| 1 Comment »

This video offers a fascinating inside look at Charleston Farmhouse, also known as “Bloomsbury in the Country.”

It includes an interview with Virginia Nicholson — who calls the home “nicely messy” — and offers lovely views of the gardens and the countryside.

Nicholson is the author of Millions Like Us, Singled Out and Among the Bohemians and is the daughter of Virginia Woolf’s nephew and biographer Quentin Bell.

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