The first session of the “A Room of One’s Own in Europe” seminar will take place on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6 p.m. (CET) on Zoom and will track the reception of Woolf’s 1929 essay in Spain. (CET time is six hours ahead of EST time.)
Professor Laura M. Lojo Rodriguez, professor of English studies at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and Celia Recarey Rendo, freelance translator & editor, will lead the session.
To receive the zoom invitation please contact them at woolfianroom@gmail.com
About the project
The Room Project, which is in its second season, is a research project that takes up Virginia Woolf’s landmark essay A Room of One’s Own (1929) and explores its full potential. Nearly a century after its publication, it asks the question: What echo chambers has A Room of One’s Own opened up?
Editor’s Note: Maggie Humm provided Blogging Woolf with the story and images of her experience working with France Culture radio and the French TV channel ARTE’s series Invitation Au Voyage on programs about Virginia Woolf.
By Maggie Humm
A cold, windy day in April 2019 saw me walking and talking in Kensington for France Culture radio about Virginia Woolf’s London childhood and her own daily walks with her father. Thankfully, my talk didn’t have to be in French or delivered sideways as in The West Wing.
Maggie Humm with the French TV channel ARTE’s series Invitation Au Voyage in St. Ives
France Culture has over 3,000 podcasts and items about Virginia Woolf. Director Simonetta Greggio simply said, “I love Woolf.”
Woolf and France past
As Blogging Woolf readers know, Charles Mauron translated “Time Passes” from To the Lighthouse in Commerce as early as Winter 1926, and Woolf’s works were translated into French more quickly than into other languages.
Woolf knew several leading French intellectuals including Mauron – Jacques Raverat and Jacques-Émile Blanche – and the translation of Mrs Dalloway had a preface by André Maurois. Simone de Beauvoir discusses Woolf in The Second Sex.
To the lighthouse
Top of my bucket list however was visiting Godrevy Lighthouse thanks to Lolita Rivé of Elephant Productions who invited me to present “Cornwall Through the Eyes of Virginia Woolf” as part of the French TV channel ARTE’s series Invitation au Voyage.
It’s not possible to convey my excitement and delight reading To the Lighthouseat Godrevy Lighthouse, as well as reading The Waves on St. Ives beach.
Maggie Humm heads to Godrevy Lighthouse with the French TV channel ARTE’s series Invitation Au Voyage. As Woolf said about St. Ives Regatta Day – it made her ‘think of a French picture’ (MOB: 132). Vive la France!
