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News about Virginia Woolf scholars

Posted in awards, books, tagged Amanda Golden, Ane Thon Knutsen, Anne Fernald, Karen V. Kukil, Maggie Humm on Friday 12 December 2025| Leave a Comment »

Here are just a handful of news bits about Virginia Woolf scholars. I know there are more. So if you have one, please add it as a comment below this post. Or send it to me by clicking on the email link in the right sidebar.

Maggie Humm’s book The Bloomsbury Photographs (2024) received two honors this year. It was a finalist in the American Writing Award 2025 for Academic/Educational book, and it won the American Writing Award 2025 for photography.
Amanda Golden and Karen V. Kukil edited The Poems of Sylvia Plath, which is listed in the Faber Spring Catalogue and is now available for pre-order on Amazon UK. It is considered the definitive edition of Plath’s poetry.
Anne Fernald has a new book coming out in August. Her Own Voice: Eight Women Who Rewrote Life and Art tells the stories of eight radical women who responded to social oppression and helped create the modernist movement. In it, Fernald argues that the stories we read shape the lives we imagine for ourselves, and offers these stories as possible templates for living boldly and creatively.
Ane Thon Knutsen had another of her works, A Room of One’s Own (2017), included in the Catalog for Artistic Publishing, which is a collection of the most important 100 publications from Norwegian artists.

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Celebrating Dalloway Day in London

Posted in Virginia Woolf, tagged Hatchard, Maggie Gee, Maggie Humm, Mark Hussey, Michelle de Krester, Mrs. Dalloway, Mrs. Dalloway's Party, Sarah Lane, Vara Neverow on Tuesday 1 July 2025| Leave a Comment »

Harchards new edition of Mrs. Dalloway filled one of the shop’s windows.

Dalloway Day celebrations are taking place across the globe this month, as Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway marks its centenary. Today I have a report from Dalloway Day in London, held June 28 at one of my favorite London bookstores, Hatchards in Piccadilly.

The event, held in collaboration with the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, featured two panels. The first was led by Maggie Humm and featured Maggie Gee, author of Virginia Woolf in Manhattan and Michelle de Kretser, author of Theory and Practice.

The second included Vara Neverow, editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, interviewing Mark Hussey about his new book, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel. Sarah Hall facilitated the question and answer period.

A book signing was then followed by champagne, sweets, and live music as Mrs. Dalloway’s Party got into full swing.

The three books by the authors on the first panel.

Michelle de Kretser reads a passage from her new novel while Maggie Humm looks on.

Standing to project Virginia’s voice, Maggie Gee reads from her novel.

Maggie Gee and Michelle de Kretzer sign their books.

Vara Neverow, Mark Hussey and Sarah Hall are ready for their panel at Hatchards.

It was a sell-out crowd for the Dalloway Day event at Hatchards.

Live music from the 1930s and ‘40s added to the ambience.

Guests at Mrs. Dalloway’s party came from near and far — London, Boston, Antwerp, Italy, Germany, and more.

More guests from around the globe.

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Free online talk on The Bloomsbury Photographs

Posted in books, events, photography, tagged Bloomsbury, books, Maggie Humm, online talk, photographs on Monday 9 June 2025| 3 Comments »

The Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey will host a talk by Maggie Humm titled “The Bloomsbury Photographs” from noon-2 p.m. EST and from 5-7 p.m. BST on Wednesday, June 11.

As the final talk of the society’s Woolf season, Humm will discuss her latest book, The Bloomsbury Photographs (Yale UP, 2024). She will explore the relationships, friendships and stories of the Bloomsbury group, offering a unique visual and historical perspective.

About Humm

Maggie Humm

Humm is an Emeritus Professor University of East London and Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She has written and edited numerous books about Woolf and Bloomsbury, including a novel, Talland House, based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

How to attend

This online event is open to all, but registration at Eventbrite is required. Places are limited.

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Maggie Humm’s book The Bloomsbury Photographs debuts

Posted in Bloomsbury, books, photographs, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Hatchard's, Maggie Humm, photographs on Sunday 20 October 2024| 3 Comments »

Hatchard’s will celebrate the publication of Maggie Humm’s new book, The Bloomsbury Photographs (2024) with a special “lantern show” at 18:30 BST on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at its shop on Piccadilly.

About the event

At the event, Maggie Humm will offer a fresh portrait of the Bloomsbury Group by showing a curated selection of the thousands of photographs that shows them in a setting of domestic intimacy. Scenes include the pastimes, children, clothes, houses, servants, pets, and holidays of the group.

According to Hatchard’s: “Several photographs are blurred as if taken in a hurried moment of time, and unguarded close-ups reflect complex personal relationships – revealing them to be more than simply documents; they are testimonies of relationships, friendships, and the significance of empathetic lives.”

About tickets and the author

Tickets are priced at £5 for members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and Hatchard’s Reward Card holders. General admission is £10. Tickets are available online, but sales end soon.

Humm is vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and author of many monographs about Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury, including her novel Talland House, which is based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

Hatchard’s on Piccadilly

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Join the sold-out crowd at Talland House via video

Posted in events, Talland House, You Tube, tagged black plaque, Maggie Humm, Talland House, unveiling on Sunday 18 September 2022| Leave a Comment »

Join the sold-out crowd at the Sept. 11 unveiling of the Virginia Woolf heritage plaque at Talland House, her summertime home in St. Ives, Cornwall from 1882-1894.

Professor Maggie Humm, vice-chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, and Councillor Johnnie Wells, Deputy Mayor of St. Ives at the Talland House plaque unveiling. Photo: St. Ives September Festival

The plaque, which marks Woolf’s childhood time in St. Ives, was unveiled as part of the St. Ives September Festival last Sunday. The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain shared the video below to document the occasion. Tony Mason produced the film, which runs just under two minutes.

About the plaque

The first in the black and white colors of the Cornwall flag, the plaque is the product of a long-running campaign by the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, led by Woolf scholar Maggie Humm and the St. Ives Town Council.

The project received unanimous support from St. Ives Town Council as well as from local MP Derek Thomas.

The Council, together with Talland House’s owner Peter Eddy and the society, hosted the sold-out event, which was fully booked within hours of being announced. The event included a reading by Humm from her novel Talland House (2020).

Humm and others are pictured in the video below. In it, you will get a view of Godrevy Bay and the famous Godrevy Lighthouse.