Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged Emma Woolf, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Virginia Woolf on Tuesday 18 December 2012| Leave a Comment »
Titled “An Apple a Day: A Special Anniversary,” the piece was published in The Times on Nov. 20. It tells the story of the goodbyes she has said to loved ones who have passed on. And it ends with a quote from Virginia Woolf: “Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.”
But before it ends, Emma shares this wisdom: “[L]ife is precious. Now more than ever is a time for new beginnings.”
Amen.
Posted in 21st Annual Internation Conference on Virginia Woolf, books, Cecil Woolf Publishers, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Mark Hussey, tagged Cecil Woolf Publishers, Emily Kopley, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Mark Hussey, Mary Ann Caws on Saturday 18 June 2011| 1 Comment »
Cecil Woolf Publishers, 1 Mornington Place London NW1 7RP, UK Tel: 020 7387 2394 or +44 (0)20 7387 2394 from outside the UK, cecilwoolf@gmail.com
Each year at the Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, Cecil Woolf Publishers introduce several new monographs in their Bloomsbury Heritage Series and distribute a new catalogue of their publications.
Here are the three new titles that debuted at the 21st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held June 9-12 at the University of Glasgow, and the two that were reissued:
Download Cecil Woolf Publishers Bloomsbury Heritage Series 2011 Catalogue and Order Form.
Posted in 21st Annual Internation Conference on Virginia Woolf, tagged 21st Annual Internation Conference on Virginia Woolf, Catherine Hollis, Contradictory Woolf, Jane Goldman, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Patrizia Muscogiuri, Suzanne Bellamy on Tuesday 14 June 2011| 2 Comments »
Marina Warner and Jane Goldman, conference organizer
Jean Moorcroft Wilson
At left, Gill Lowe in the pageant skit written by Suzanne Bellamy, pictured at right
Posted in Cecil Woolf, Cecil Woolf Publishers, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, tagged Cecil Woolf, Cecil Woolf Publishers, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Remembrance Day on Friday 19 November 2010| 4 Comments »
Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Cecil Woolf are featured in an article about World War I poet Edward Thomas posted today on the Islington Tribune website.
Wilson, who is writing a biography of Thomas, spoke about him at an event at the Imperial War Museum on the eve of Remembrance Day. She is the author of biographies of World War I poets Isaac Rosenberg (2005) and Siegfried Sassoon (2009).
Churchill biographer Martin Wilson also spoke at the event, describing the conditions on the Western Front during the Great War.
Wilson serves as editor for many monographs in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series and the War Poets Series published by her husband, Cecil Woolf of Cecil Woolf Publishers, which is based in London.
She also wrote the text that every Woolfian consults when planning a trip to England in the hopes of following in Virginia Woolf’s footsteps. It’s titled Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place.
Posted in Bloomsbury, books, Cecil Woolf, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, Woolf Letters, tagged Angelica Garnett, Cecil Woolf, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, The Unspoken Truth: A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories, Virginia Woolf letters on Sunday 7 February 2010| Leave a Comment »
I never rip it right open. I usually hold the letter in my hands for a minute, thinking about the long distance it has come, the water it has crossed, the person on the other end who has taken the time to sit down and put pen to paper.
Sometimes I have to wait for the right moment before I can open it. I never want to read a letter from abroad when I am agitated or in a hurry or distracted by some mundane matter.
But when the moment is right, I settle down on my favorite sofa, the one where the late afternoon sun slants across my shoulder. In that calm and quiet spot, I carefully slit open the envelope. I sip the words slowly, letting them swish around in my mind. I savor their flavor and their meaning. I note their nuances and subtleties. I picture the person who wrote it and the place where he wrote.
So where is the Virginia Woolf connection in all of this? Well, we all know she wrote and received lots of letters — volumes in fact. Five of them sit on my bookshelf.
But two other things have made me think about letters. The first was a note I received from Cecil Woolf, nephew of Leonard and Virginia, who wrote to say that he and his wife Jean Moorcroft Wilson had spent 12 days in South Africa, where they spoke at the University of Capetown. Cecil’s talk was titled “As I Remember Them: Virginia and Leonard Woolf.” His missive was dated Jan. 26, and I thought about the significance of that date as well.
Cecil Woolf
The second thing that made me think about letters was the much-discussed news that Angelica Garnett has published a new volume of short stories, The Unspoken Truth: A Quartet of Bloomsbury Stories. These stories are not letters. But Garnett has been quoted as saying that the stories are autobiographical, not invented, for the most part.
