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Talk reveals what we don’t know about Dreadnought hoax

Posted in books, Dreadnought Hoax, events, tagged , , on Wednesday 1 May 2024| 1 Comment »

Is everything we think we know about the Dreadnought hoax wrong? Danell Jones says it is.

Jones, the author of Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax (2023) will give an illustrated online talk on “Everything You Think You Know about the Dreadnought Hoax Is Wrong.” Marielle O’Neill will lead the Q&A that follows.

Event details

What: Talk on “Everything You Think You Know about the Dreadnought Hoax Is Wrong“
Date: Wednesday, May 15
Time: 5:30 p.m. BST
Where: Online
Cost: £6
Sponsor: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
Audience: VWSGB members only. Not a member? Join here.
For more information: Contact onlinevwsgb@gmail.com

About the book — and the talk

Journalists, memoirists and others have been getting the 1910 Dreadnought hoax wrong for more than a century. Even Virginia Woolf’s 1940 talk about the hoax is rife with inaccuracies, exaggerations and misrepresentations.

The Girl Prince, published by Hurst, takes a deep dive into the famous prank, exploring the often-overlooked diversity of Virginia Woolf’s world and setting the record straight on a practical joke that has been misunderstood for 100 years.

About the author

Danell Jones is a writer and scholar with a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers Workshop; the poetry collection Desert Elegy; and An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor, which won the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction.

 

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Reflections of Woolf on the radio

Posted in Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , on Thursday 21 February 2013| Leave a Comment »

“Reflections West,” a weekly show on Montana Public Radio, pairs writer Danell Jones’ observations about living in the West with a literary passage from Orlando. Listen to her musings at Year 3: Episode 68 via the Reflections West website.

Jones is a teacher, writer, scholar and editor who teaches creative writing and literature courses in Billings, Montana. She conducts writing workshops based on her book: The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing.

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Blogger chooses Woolf as writing mentor

Posted in Woolf and writing, Woolf online, tagged , , on Friday 4 May 2012| Leave a Comment »

The blogger at sub rosa plans “to spend 2012 in companion with Virginia Woolf” in an effort to become a better writer. She chose Woolf because of her brilliant writing as well as her ability to speak with wisdom about practical things.

 

The Woolf works included in sub rosa’s 2012 bibliography list are A Room of One’s Own, Three Guineas, To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway and Moments of Being.

This week, sub rosa posted a piece about Alexandra Harris’s biography of Woolf. The post, “Woolf & the Ramsays,” includes musings about Woolf’s relationship to her parents and to her different selves.

Of course, sub rosa is not the first to recognize Woolf’s expertise as a writing mentor and life advisor. Danell Jones wrote the book on that topic — The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing. Read more about that here: Take a writing workshop from Virginia.

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Woolf sightings from around the Web

Posted in Bloomsbury, Virginia Woolf, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , , on Friday 16 April 2010| Leave a Comment »

Here are some Virginia Woolf sightings recently shared by members of the VWoolf Listserv:

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Take a writing workshop from Virginia

Posted in books, tagged , , on Thursday 19 March 2009| 5 Comments »

Last night I spent several hours in a writing workshop. It was wonderful. How could it be anything else? The instructor was Virginia Woolf.

I found Woolf’s lessons on writing inside the covers of the charming book by Danell Jones called The Virginia Woolf Writers’ Workshop: Seven Lessons to Inspire Great Writing.

Jones combed Woolf’s diaries, letters, essays and novels to pull together the author’s best advice about writing. Woolf then delivers this advice in a setting Jones imagines — at an imaginary podium in front of a room full of eager students in a writing workshop. Actual quotes from Woolf are connected by Jones’s own words, but all stay true to what we know and love about Woolf.

This is a little gem of a book that delivers big on its promise to “inspire great writing.” It includes chapters on practicing, working, creating, walking (Yes, walking! After all this is Woolf we are talking about.), reading, publishing and doubting.

And each chapter ends with what Jones calls “Writing Sparks” to inspire hands-on practice. There are more of these at the end of the book as well.

Whether you are a writer, a reader, a teacher or just a Woolf fan, this is a sweet little book to own.

Read a more extensive review here and an excerpt here. You can also read an interview with the author.

The Fall/Winter 2008 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany also has a review of the book, as does the January 2009 issue of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin.

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