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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Virginia Woolf

Posted in events, tagged , , , on Sunday 9 February 2025| Leave a Comment »

Are you a member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain? If so, join an online reading of “Bloomsbury in Love.” If not, consider joining so you can participate in this free member-only online event in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

Who: The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
What:  “Bloomsbury in Love,” an evening of readings by members from works by Virginia Woolf and her friends.
When: Wednesday 19 February 2025, 5:30 p.m. GMT or 12:30 p.m. EST
How: Via Zoom. If you are a society member you should have received the Zoom login details via email. If not, you can join here.

Want to read your favorite passage?

The society is looking for people who would like to read out a favorite passage on the topic of love (in its many forms) from a Bloomsbury novel, diary, letter, essay, or other piece of writing. All you need to do is introduce the piece, with a brief word about its context, and then read it out to other members. Readings should be four or five minutes long, including your introduction.

If you would like to do a reading, please email: onlinevwsgb@gmail.com by Wednesday 12 February, with details of what you would like to read. If it is a diary entry or letter, please include the date; if a section from a longer piece of writing, please include the first and last lines.

 

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Bloomsbury in Love: free British Society member event

Posted in Bloomsbury, events, tagged , , , on Thursday 8 February 2024| Leave a Comment »

The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain invites all members to a free members-only online event titled “Bloomsbury in Love,” in honor of Valentine’s Day as well as the love relationships of members of the Bloomsbury group.

Details

When: Wednesday, Feb, 21, 5:30 p.m. GMT
Where: On Zoom. Members will be sent the Zoom link.
What: An evening of readings by members about love and relationships from Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group.
How: If you are not already a member of the society, join now to participate.

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Virginia Woolf’s Valentine’s Day dinner 99 years ago today

Posted in quotes, tagged , , on Tuesday 14 February 2023| Leave a Comment »

It’s Valentine’s Day. And in Virginia Woolf’s Diary: Volume 2, there is no entry for Feb. 14, 1923, 100 years ago today. So instead I have pulled a quote from her Feb. 14, 1922, diary, 99 years ago.

In it, she does not mention Valentine’s Day, but she does share a bit of detail about her dinner at Hogarth House, their home in Richmond from 1915-1924.

We dine over the fire. L. has his tray on a little stool. We are as comfortable as cottagers (looked at through the window) . . . Diary: Volume 2, pg. 161.

The fireplace in the dining room at Monk’s House, the Woolf’s summer home in Sussex from 1919 until their deaths.

 

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Woolf and wine on Valentine’s Day

Posted in quotes, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Wednesday 14 February 2018| 1 Comment »

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.

The quotes, said Maggie, a Woolf scholar and author, were on a brief list she sent to the Tate for the launch of her 2006 book Snapshots of Bloomsbury, at the London Review of Books.

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’.

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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with Woolf love letters

Posted in events, tagged , , , on Friday 30 January 2015| Leave a Comment »

If you live in or near Seattle, there is a Woolf event for you. It’s called “With or Without You: Letters of Loving, Longing and Leaving,” and it includes the public reading of “steamy letters of longing from Virginia Woolf.”

Here are the details:

Dates: Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Feb. 14 at 2 and 7:30 p.m.
Location: 12th Ave Arts building (1660 12th Ave.) in Capitol Hill, Seattle, Wash.
Tickets: Range from $20-$30 in price and are available from Brown Paper Tickets.

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