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A conversation about Woolf’s “On Being Ill”

Posted in events, On Being Ill, tagged , , on Friday 12 May 2017| Leave a Comment »

Here is a Virginia Woolf event set for May 21 in Goshen, Mass.
This event is wheelchair accessible. For more information, contact

Paris Press 413-628-0051, info@parispress.org.

Books will be available to purchase.

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council
and the Schocken Family Foundation.

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Program tomorrow: Writing and Reading thru Illness and Caregiving

Posted in events, On Being Ill, tagged , , on Tuesday 31 January 2017| Leave a Comment »

Paris Press and Meekins Library invite you to an evening of readings, discussion, and writing about theonbeingill transformations of illness and caregiving.

What: Writing and Reading thru Illness and Caregiving
When: Tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 6:30 p.m.
Where: Meekins Library, 2 Williams St. Williamsburg, MA

Join Karen Kukil, Nanny Vonnegut, Amelia Stevens, Jan Freeman, and Marya Zilberberg in a reading and discussion about the transformations that we experience in illness and caregiving.

This program springs from Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill with Notes from Sick Rooms by Julia Stephen, Woolf’s mother. A group writing activity will follow the reading and discussion. Books will be available to purchase.

For more information, contact Meekins Library 413-268-7472, Paris Press 413-628-0051, info@parispress.org, or meekins@cwmars.org.

Sponsored by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Schocken Family Foundation.

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Woolf, her mother and narrative medicine at NYU

Posted in books, events, Julia Stephen, On Being Ill, tagged , , , , , , on Tuesday 2 April 2013| 3 Comments »

on becoming ill eventParis Press Books: On Being Ill

 

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Woolf and her mother On Being Ill

Posted in Julia Stephen, Woolf events, tagged , , , , on Tuesday 13 November 2012| Leave a Comment »

Woolfians near Manhattan have an advantage tomorrow. They can attend a book launch celebrating the Paris Press 10th anniversary edition of Virginia Woolf’s On Being Ill that includes Notes from Sick Rooms by her mother, Julia Stephen.

It marks the first book publication of Woolf and her mother.

The event will feature readings by Rita Charon (physician and Director of the Program in Narrative Medicine), Mark Hussey (Pace University and acclaimed Virginia Woolf scholar), Judith Kelman (Director of Visible Ink Writing Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering), and Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins (physician and poet).

Held at Case Lounge, JG Hall, Columbia Law School, the event is free and open to the public.

Read a review of the book in Publisher’s Weekly.

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“When the lights of health go down,” read On Being Ill

Posted in books, essays, Hermione Lee, Hogarth Press, On Being Ill, tagged , , , on Wednesday 22 October 2008| Leave a Comment »

Everywhere I go, I hear it — that hacking cough that people just cannot seem to get rid of this fall.

So how fitting that this week, the Financial Times published a review of Virginia Woolf’s 1930 volume On Being Ill.

As the story goes, Woolf fainted at a party in 1925. During the aftermath, which involved several months of recuperation, she wrote a thoughtful rumination on how illness changes one’s experience of the world.

Those thoughts were published by the Hogarth Press in a slim volume with cover art designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell. It was titled On Being Ill.

The Financial Times review mentions a new edition of the volume, published by Paris Press and with an introduction by Hermione Lee. It is a facsimile of the original, cover art and all.

Five years ago, in 2003, Lee presented the keynote address at the 13th Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference on the essay. The theme that year was “Woolf in the Real World.” Nothing is more real than illness.

The Paris Press edition is not that new. My volume, which I picked up several years ago at my local Borders, has a copyright date of 2002.

Perhaps you can pick up a copy for an ill friend. It just might change his or her experience of the world.

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