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Get on the bus, the Virginia Woolf bus

Posted in commodification, Woolf sightings, tagged , , on Tuesday 28 April 2009| 1 Comment »

Since 1999, every new bus entering the fleet in Brighton, England, has been named after a famous person with a connection to the city. One of them is Virginia Woolf.

The bus named in her honor is bus #887. Her sister, Vanessa Bell, has a bus named after her too. It is #671.

Read more on the Brighton & Hove Web site.

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Mozart by The Hours

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, music, The Hours, tagged , , , , , on Monday 27 April 2009| Leave a Comment »

Michael Cunningham says music inspires his writing — and that he plays the same pieces over and over again to influence the rythm and the emotion of his work.

So it is apt that he read from his novel The Hours while the Sinfonietta Quartet played excerpts from Mozart’s “Dissonance” quartet, the piece he has said inspired his novel based on Virginia Woolf.

Also on Saturday night’s program in Tacoma, Washington, were Philip Glass’s score for the movie version of The Hours and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden.”

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A Woolf conversation in cartoon form

Posted in Bloomsbury, Lytton Strachey, Woolf diary, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , on Sunday 26 April 2009| Leave a Comment »

Want to see an amusing Virginia Woolf cartoon? Visit “from the blog of Virginia Woolf” on The Spider Spoke, written by Tom Arthur Smith.

His cartoon cleverly features Woolf’s diary entries regarding a conversation with Lytton Strachey. It is posted under the category “diary drawings.”

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