Virginia Woolf readers and scholars around the globe are coming up with creative ways to fill the
time as they shelter at home during the current coronavirus pandemic.
- A Norwegian typesetter is setting a sentence a day from On Being Ill.
- Members and followers of the Italian Virginia Woolf Society are posting photos of themselves reading Woolf and reading her letters aloud via video.
- And now, the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain is sending its members 100 questions about Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury — a few at a time. “There’s no prize, just a sense of satisfaction, perhaps even smugness, if you get them all right,” states the society’s email.
The first five brain teasers from the Big VW Quiz
Play along by answering these questions:
1) When was Virginia’s play Freshwater first performed?
(a) April 1933
(b) November 1934
(c) January 1935
d) December 1936
2) Where was it performed?
3) What year did Virginia first meet Vita Sackville-West?
4) What was Virginia’s first piece of published shorter fiction (as defined by Susan Dick in “Complete Shorter Fiction”)?
5) In which years were the first and second Post Impressionist exhibitions?
Join up
If you’d like to join the society to get the remaining 95 questions, you can find out more on the VWSGB website’s membership page.
Woolfians can celebrate Virginia Woolf’s 127th birthday on stage from afternoon to evening on Jan. 25 with performances of Woolf’s own play Freshwater and a staged reading of 
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