Posted in events, memoir, Virginia Woolf, tagged events, Gillian Beer, Literature Cambridge, memoir, online on Sunday 17 October 2021| Leave a Comment »
Virginia Woolf scholar Gillian Beer will do an online reading and discussion of her short mem
oir covering her experiences of being evacuated as a child during WWII. Titled Stations without Signs, the memoir was published this year by Hazel Press.
The one-hour reading via Literature Cambridge will begin at 6 p.m. BT Dec. 5. The cost is £5 and registration is available online.
Gillian Beer lecturing on Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in April as part of Literature Cambridge’s online offerings.
Posted in 18th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, books, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf, tagged All the Lives We Ever Lived, books, Katharine Smyth, memoir, To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf on Tuesday 1 September 2020| Leave a Comment »
In All the Lives We Ever Lived: Seeking Solace in Virginia Woolf, Katharine Smyth links her own 
story with Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
Published last year, Smyth’s memoir tells the story of her own family, of discovering her parents as people, and of her father’s alcoholism and death. She does it all while weaving in literary criticism of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.
By doing so, critics say she creates the perfect medium for reflecting on grief, loss, and marriage, on the way family morphs as you age, on memory and the difficulties of trying to understand who your parents are, and who they once were. Wow. That’s an armload to take on in one book.
The memoir’s title comes from the poem “Luriana Lurilee” by Charles Elton that Woolf references in To the Lighthouse.
That Gordon ties Woolf’s semi-autobiographical novel to her memoir is quite fitting, as Woolf focused her work on her own parents in the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay.
This is a transcendent book, not a simple meditation on one woman’s loss, but a reflection on all of our losses, on loss itself, on how to remember and commemorate our dead. – Charlotte Gordon, The Washington Post
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