Virginia Woolf was an expert at making New Year’s resolutions. Alice Lowe reported on her resolutions of 1931 and 1936 in a post on Dec. 27, 2010. Since then, one particular resolution has been popular on Twitter and Facebook. Here it is from the Charleston Trust. Her resolution stands up well 90 years later.
Virginia Woolf’s New Year’s resolutions❤️
January 2, 1931:
Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year.
To have none. Not to be tied.
To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. pic.twitter.com/ljcfE8RlFa
Back in January, in response to Blogging Woolf’s tweet about a Virginia Woolf punch, Maggie Humm tweeted about Virginia Woolf and wine, saying she had a list of Woolf quotes referencing the fermented beverage.
The emeritus professor at the University of East London provided them at our request, apologizing for the lack of complete citations. Grateful for her contribution, we gladly forgive her.
We share them with you here — and raise a glass to Virginia Woolf, with love on Valentine’s Day 2018.
Woolf quotes on wine
1936 to Ethel Smyth the feminist composer: ‘Oh and the champagne! How I like it.
1937 to Vita Sackville-West: ‘shant I be thankful to be in a courtyard in France, listening to a nightingale, drinking red wine, while you are curtseying & singing God Save the King’.
1938 to Quentin Bell: ‘Wine would be a passport to my heart, its true’.
1939 to Ethel Smyth: ‘How it liberates the soul to drink a bottle of good wine daily & sit in the sun’.
1929 Cassis: ‘Nessa’s villa…a delicious life, with a great deal of wine, cheap cigars, conversation’.
1931 to Ethel Smyth from Bergerac (Woolf likes Bergerac wine): `Just dined off eels, artichokes and wine – slightly tipsy’.
1940 Diary: ‘All the young English drink spirits. I like wine. Air raids much less’.
1931 Diary: ‘Wine at lunch flushes me & floats me’.
Room of One’s Own: ‘I blandly told them to drink wine and have a room of their own’.
Most of the reactions below come via Twitter, where “Life in Squares” was a trending topic after the first episode aired last night with an audience of between 1.85 and 1.9 million UK viewers.
Her despairing cry may be echoed by some viewers of the BBC’s three-part series Life in Squares, for the Bloomsbury Group attracts many detractors as well as legions of devotees. — Frances Spalding
Be sure to click on the comments below to read Maggie Humm’s assessment of Spalding’s review, along with her own insights.
I would have struggled with this piecemeal version of the Bloomsbury group #LifeInSquares had I been unfamiliar with the comings and goings. — Jill (@JillHS23) July 27, 2015
Life in Squares viewers had to use Wikipedia to decipher the plot … http://t.co/UDABAZoGYv
— UK News Information (@AnglosearchNews) July 28, 2015
