Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Wednesday 18 July 2018| Leave a Comment »
The results are in. The winning quote in the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain’s query posted on its Facebook page is:
“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” – A Room of One’s Own
You can read all four of the quotes short-listed for the competition, which was held in celebration of #DallowayDay. The VWSGB says it will hold a similar vote to celebrate #DallowayDay next year.
Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf quotes, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Friday 13 July 2018| 1 Comment »
As we reported earlier, the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is asking Woolf readers to vote for their favorite quote 
Here’s the VWSGB’s Facebook query:
Thanks to all those who emailed or Facebooked their favourite Virginia Woolf quotations. We received a great variety, but have shortlisted the following five. Just vote for your favourite using the number next to it. If you voted earlier, you can choose the same one or another, and you can make your message public or reply privately. But please vote! #vwquotevote
1) Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. (Mrs Dalloway)
2) In the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June.
(Mrs Dalloway)
3) Why, if one wants to compare life to anything, one must liken it to being blown through the Tube at fifty miles an hour – landing at the other end without a single hairpin in one’s hair! Shot out at the feet of God entirely naked! Tumbling head over heels in the asphodel meadows like brown paper parcels pitched down a shoot in the post office! With one’s hair flying back like the tail of a race-horse. Yes, that seems to express the rapidity of life, the perpetual waste and repair; all so casual, all so haphazard …
(‘The Mark on the Wall’)
4) Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. (A Room of One’s Own)
5) Nothing is simply one thing. (To the Lighthouse)
Posted in Dalloway Day, events, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Virginia Woolf, tagged #DallowayDay, Bloomsbury, Farrah Ahamed, Francesca Wade, Gower Street Waterstones, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Maggie Humm, Mecklenburgh Square, Virginia Woolf, Waterstones on Saturday 16 June 2018| 3 Comments »
Gower Street Waterstones
About 25 Virginia Woolf fans gathered at Gower Street Waterstones this afternoon to talk about ”Woolf, Walking & Writing” in advance of the official #DallowayDay this Wednesday.
The bookstore and the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain sponsored the event, which began with an hour-long tour of Bloomsbury guided by Jean Moorcroft Wilson, author of Virginia Woolf’s London.
Jean began the walk with the suggestion that we think about it as a shopping expedition, one Woolf would have taken in her day. She then led us around the Bloomsbury squares where Woolf and other Bloomsbury Group members lived, putting each in context by adding quotes from Woolf’s diaries and references to her 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway.
Back at the shop, the event included a panel discussion about writing with two writers — Francesca Wade and Farah Ahamed. Wade is writing a book about interwar women and Mecklenburgh Square and Ahamed writes fiction and essays.
The event concluded with wine and a presentation about Woolf’s photographs by Maggie Humm, author of Snapshots of Bloomsbury.
Here are some photos from the day.
The Woolf crowd gathers at Waterstones for the tour led by Jean Moorcroft Wilson.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson on the doorstep of 46 Gordon Square, Woolf’s first Bloomsbury home.
Our next stop was the Tavistock Hotel, where this blue plaque honoring Virginia and Leonard Woolf was installed this spring. The hotel is located on the site of their former home at 52 Tavistock Square, which was destroyed in World War II.
At Waterstones, ready for the #DallowayDay talks
A display of books by and about Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group available at the shop.
Panel discussion on Woolf and writing with M.L. Banting, Farah Ahamed and Francesca Wade.
Maggie Humm talks about Woolf’s photography and how it relates to her writing.
Posted in Dalloway Day, quotes, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged #DallowayDay, quotes, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain on Tuesday 12 June 2018| 1 Comment »
In conjunction with #DallowayDay 2018 the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is asking Woolf fans for their favourite Woolf quotation.
Don’t worry about the exact words; organizers say they can probably find the one you mean.
Here’s what to do. Just click on the ‘Send Message’ button on the VWSGB Facebook page and type in your favourite Woolf quotation, where it comes from and a few words about why you like it, and the group will add it to the list.
The VWSGB needs quotes by the third Wednesday in June, which most Woolfians consider to be the day on which Clarissa Dalloway takes her walk around London and holds her party. This year, as in 1923, when the novel is set, this falls on Wednesday 20 June.
When all ideas are collected, the top five will be listed and members will be asked to vote for one of them by 30 June. Results will be announced in early July.
Posted in Dalloway Day, tagged #DallowayDay, Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 10 May 2018| Leave a Comment »
Bookings are now open for the free Gallery Talk: Looking at Mrs. Dalloway, a tour of Virginia 
