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Woolf and Freedom is focus of 4th Woolf season @LitCamb

Posted in events, Literature Cambridge, Woolf online, tagged , , , on Friday 5 January 2024| Leave a Comment »

Literature Cambridge’s fourth Woolf Season: Woolf and Freedom is in progress. It includes a live online lecture and seminar every month until June.

Times below are in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) through February and British Summer Time (BST) March through June. Course fees range from £27-£32. All prices include VAT at 20 percent.

At the 2019 Literature Cambridge course “Virginia Woolf and Gardens,” Kabe Wilson talked about his art project in which he cut out the words from Woolf’s “A Room of One’s Own” to create his novella’s 145 pages.

Remaining sessions

• Saturday 6 January, 6 p.m. Lecture 5. To the Lighthouse (1927), Art and the Freedom of Movement, with Kabe Wilson.

• Sunday 4 February, 6 p.m. Lecture 6. A Room of One’s Own (1929): Intelligence and Intellectual Freedom, with Natasha Periyan.

• Saturday 23 March, 6 p.m. Lecture 7. Shakespeare’s Sister and Creative Freedom in A Room of One’s Own (1929), with Varsha Panjwani.

• Saturday 6 April, 6 p.m. Lecture 8. Freedom of Thought in Woolf’s Essays, with Beth Rigel Daugherty.

• Saturday 4 May, 6 p.m. Lecture 9. Freedom of The Waves (1931), with Angela Harris.

• Saturday 8 June, 6 p.m. Lecture 10. ‘The Essence of Freedom’ in Three Guineas (1938), with Claire Davison.

Members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain may book any Woolf session at the student price.

King’s College, Cambridge

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Tiny tomes that focus on one Virginia Woolf topic

Posted in books, essays, tagged , , , , , on Saturday 11 November 2023| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf wrote hundreds of essays during her lifetime. The total varies from “nearly 600” (Fernald 160) to “640,” (Rigel Daughtery 9) so it can be difficult to locate just the right essay when needed. For that reason,  sometimes a slim collection of Virginia Woolf essays that focus on a specific topic is just the thing.

Here are two.

On freedom

The first is part of a 27-volume Vintage Mini collection, a Vintage Classic published by Penguin/Random House. Titled Liberty, it includes selections from A Room of One’s Own (1929), The Waves (1931), and the essays “Street Haunting” and “How Should One Read a Book.”

Here begins the freedom of the mind, or rather the possibility that in the course of time the mind will be free to write what it likes – jacket quote from Liberty (2018)

On the visual arts

The second is the twentieth volume in the ekphrasis series published by David Zwirner Books in 2021 and is a collection of Woolf’s writings on the visual arts.

Titled Oh, to Be a Painter!, the volume begins with an introduction by Claudia Tobin and includes Woolf’s longest essay on painting, “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934), alongside shorter essays and reviews, including “Pictures and Portraits” (1920) and “Pictures” (1925).

References:

Fernald, Anne E. “A Feminist Public Sphere? Virginia Woolf’s Revisions of the Eighteenth Century.” Feminist Studies 31:1 (2005): 158-182.

Daugherty, Beth Rigel. “The Transatlantic Virginia Woolf: Essaying an American Audience.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany 76 (2009): 9-11.

 

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