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Bloomsbury talk in San Francisco

Posted in Bloomsbury, events, tagged , , on Thursday 21 October 2010| Leave a Comment »

“On and About: Bloomsbury and December 1910” will be the topic of a lecture by Peter Stansky, professor of history emeritus at Stanford University and expert on modern British history, on Dec. 6, 5 to 7 p.m at the Book Club of California.

Also at the 312 Sutter St. location in San Francisco, Calif., will be “In the Gallery: The Birth of Bloomsbury: 1910” from Nov. 15 through Dec. 30.

The events are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.bccbooks.org.

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Getting the facts straight about Dreadnought

Posted in Bloomsbury, Dreadnought Hoax, Hogarth Press, tagged , , , , on Wednesday 10 February 2010| 5 Comments »

The Dreadnought Hoax, Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.

A bit of a back and forth about the Dreadnought Hoax took place on the VWoolf Listserv today. So now that the dust has cleared, here are the facts, as established by our Woolf experts:

  • The hoax occurred Monday, Feb. 7, 1910.  Peter Stansky verified the date by checking the original telegram related to the affair. It is housed in the National Archives at Kew, which was formerly known as the Public Records Office. You can access the Archives’ Dreadnought folder here. Stanksy included a full account of the hoax in his book, On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World, published by Harvard University Press in 1996.
  • Quentin Bell gives Feb. 10 as the date of the hoax in his biography of Woolf. In her biography, Hermione Lee gives Feb. 7 as the date, although she does not cite her source. In her 1997 biography Duncan Grant, Frances Spalding doesn’t give a source for her date either, but she does use the correct date of Feb. 7.
  • The Daily Mirror reported on Feb. 16, 1910, that “All England is laughing at the practical joke played a few days ago…”, beneath a photograph of the participants in the hoax.
  • The Dreadnought talk that Woolf gave to the Rodmell branch of the Women’s Institute is published in The Platform of Time, edited by S. P Rosenbaum. Georgia Johnston discovered the manuscript of the talk, and her account was published in the Woolf Studies Annual, Vol XV in 2009.
  • Adrian Stephen wrote The Dreadnought Hoax, published by the Hogarth Press in 1936.

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