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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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Two Virginia Woolf poems discovered in Texas

Posted in poetry, tagged , , , , on Sunday 19 January 2025| Leave a Comment »

The news is out on both sides of the pond. The Times Literary Supplement and NPR report that two poems Virginia Woolf wrote for her niece and nephew were discovered in a folder at a university library in Texas.

Sophia Oliver, a lecturer of modernism at the University of Liverpool, found the poems at the Harry Ransom Center, an archive library at the University of Texas at Austin, while doing research on Gertrude Stein. Oliver went on to poke about in the Woolf files and spotted the poems at the back of a folder of letters to her niece, Angelica Bell.

The poem for Bell is titled “Angelica” and the piece for her nephew, Quentin Bell, is titled “Hiccoughs.” Oliver estimates that both were written after 1927.

Below are photographs of the TLS article that Jane Goldman posted to Facebook. She is a poet and reader in A vant-garde poetics and creative writing at the University of Glasgow. Thank you, Jane!

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Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own now in public domain

Posted in A Room of One's Own, tagged , , on Thursday 9 January 2025| Leave a Comment »

It’s a new year and another work by Virginia Woolf has entered the public domain in the United States. Woolf’s feminist polemic, A Room of One’s Own, which was published in 1929, is now added to the list of Woolf works that are out of copyright.

Besides A Room of One’s Own, the list includes:

In the U.S., any work published before 1924 is in the public domain. Works published between 1923 and 1977 generally receive copyright protection for 95 years from the date of their publication. In 2012, writers who died before 1942 entered the pubic domain.

According to U.S. copyright law, these works are available for people to use, share and adapt after 95 years, when their copyrights expired.

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Virginia Woolf’s 1931 New Year’s resolutions

Posted in diaries, tagged , , , on Tuesday 31 December 2024| 1 Comment »

In a Diary entry dated Friday, Jan. 2, 1931, Virginia Woolf wrote the following New Year’s resolutions, prefacing them with this remark:

Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year.

First, to have none. Not to be tied.

Second, to be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio.

To make a good job of The Waves.

To care nothing for making money.

As for Nelly, to stop irritation by the assurance that nothing is worth irritation: if it comes back, she must go . . .

Then — well the chief resolution is the most import — not to make resolutions. Sometimes to read, sometimes not to read. To go out yes – but stay at home in spite of being asked. As for clothes, I think to buy good ones.”

– Diary 4, pg. 3

All of them seem particularly appropriate for me, except one: I don’t have a Nelly to let go if I find her irritating.

If you want more, read this post that includes Woolf’s resolutions for 1933, and this one includes those for 1936.

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Virginia Woolf’s Jacob’s Room is 102 today

Posted in Hogarth Press, Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged , , on Sunday 27 October 2024| Leave a Comment »

Today I share a Facebook post from the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain:

“On this day in 1922 Virginia Woolf’s third novel, Jacob’s Room, was first published by the Hogarth Press. Approximately 1,200 copies were printed, priced at 7s 6d.

It was the first of Woolf’s novels to be published by her own company; from then on, all her works were published under its imprint. The printer was R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh.

Woolf’s Diary entry of Monday 26 January 1920 – the day after her 38th birthday – reveals her first thoughts about ‘a new form for a new novel’:

Suppose one thing should open out of another – as in An Unwritten Novel – only not for 10 pages but 200 or so – doesn’t that give the looseness & lightness I want: doesnt that get closer & yet keep form & speed, & enclose everything, everything? . . . I figure that the approach will be entirely different this time: no scaffolding; scarcely a brick to be seen; all crepuscular, but the heart, the passion, humour, everything as bright as fire in the mist. . . . conceive mark on the wall, K. G. & unwritten novel taking hands & dancing in unity. – Virginia Woolf, Diary 2, pp. 13–14. B. J. Kirkpatrick and Stuart N. Clarke, A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, 4th edition, 1997, pp. 27–8.

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