I just came across a fascinating project titled “Literary Bloomsbury” that combines social media with the
Bloomsbury Group.
In it, Camilla Lunde, whose Twitter handle is @CGlunde, imagines how Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, E.M. Forster and the Hogarth Press would make use of 21st-century social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
With this project, Lunde has given the four key members of the group their own social media presence. Woolf is on Twitter as @mrsstephenwoolf. Forester has an author Facebook page. Bell has an Instagram account as mrsstephenbell. And the Hogarth Press is on YouTube.
While I find the idea interesting, its reach is limited at present. Woolf only has four tweets posted. I was unable to find Forster’s page when I did a Facebook search. Bell’s Instagram account is private, so can’t be viewed unless one goes to a link on the Project Publishing blog. And I couldn’t locate the YouTube page for the Hogarth press either, although a screenshot exists on Lunde’s Tumblr blog. Lunde does not include links to the accounts on her blog.
Lunde’s project has won praise on social media and an award from the UCL Centre for Publishing at University College London.
#shoutout to our literary Bloomsbury winner @CGlunde. Check out her blog piece at https://t.co/twYpuL2x4P. Congratulations Camilla!
— uclpublishing (@uclpublishing) November 3, 2015
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