Building Virginia Woolf — in Lego blocks

At left is a photo of a Virginia Woolf figure constructed from Lego blocks. I found it online a while ago. I hope you agree that in this case, a picture truly is worth a million words. Suffice it to say that I am now busy imagining a Charleston Lego set that one can fill with Bloomsbury figures. [...]

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Julia Cameron exhibit in Portland through Sept. 7

“For My Best Beloved Sister Mia: An Album of Photographs” by Julia Margaret Cameron, is at the Portland Museum of Art in Portland, Maine, through Sept. 7. A renowned Victorian photographer, Cameron was the aunt of Virginia Woolf’s mother, the former Julia Jackson. View the image gallery. Read a review of the exhibit in the Boston [...]

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Virginia is among feminist icons

I have feminist icons on my mind. That’s why after mentioning them in a recent post on another blog, I keep bumping into examples of who these icons actually are and what they are doing to help us connect with one another. Of course, Virginia Woolf is among them. Consider these examples: On the Web site of The Guardian in [...]

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Read about two Bloomsbury exhibits in the NYT

Earlier this week the New York Times ran a story,”Arts and Crafts From Bloomsbury Days,” on two exhibits of Bloomsbury art, one in New York at Cornell University, and another in London. The Cornell exhibit, “A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections,” is traveling around the country through 2010. The London exhibit, [...]

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New Canadian play features Virginia’s visit to Dora

Virginia Woolf is the focus of a new play staged as part of the NotaBle Acts Summer Theatre Festival in  Fredericton, New Brunswick. Written by Bruce Allen Lynch and titled The Nicest Place In England, the play tells the story of Woolf’s visit to her friend Dora Carrington after Lytton Strachey’s death.  According to the NotaBle Acts Web site, it is a “visitation [...]

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Walking across the Downs from Rodmell to Firle

Flo, the blogger at “Thoughts of the Common Reader,” has posted a fascinating entry, complete with beautiful photos, about her eight-mile walk from Monk’s House in Rodmell to Charleston Farmhouse in Firle. The jaunt was a guided walk called ”In The Footsteps of Virginia Woolf” and organised by the Charleston Trust. Read about Flo’s experience on the walk [...]

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Review of Vanessa and Virginia

Authors of novels about real people have great freedom, in the name of fiction, to carve out their territory. Virginia Woolf and her coterie seem to be frequent subjects of these bold interpretations, and Woolfians are irresistibly drawn to them, myself included. In recent years I have added to my shelves Mitz: The Marmoset of [...]

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Bloomsbury exhibit opens July 18 at Cornell

 A new Bloomsbury exhibit called “A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections” is available July 18 to Oct. 18 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University. The exhibit features more than 190 paintings, watercolors, drawings, books from the Hogarth Press and decorative works, according to the Cornell Chronicle. [...]

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Watch a video imagining Virginia’s ongoing adventures

During one of my many ramblings on You Tube, I came across a charming video called The Adventures of Virginia Woolf. The three-and-a-half minute video, produced by neon filmmaker Jack Feldstein, imagines the many wonderful and creative things Virginia would have done if she had decided not to walk into the River Ouse but had gone on to [...]

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Cornwall beach property sells high

A Cornish woman has purchased the Upton Towans beach property in Gwithian, Cornwall that marketers are describing as the inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. The price?  £80,000, £30,000 more than the guide price for the property. That amount translates to about $130,100 in U.S. dollars. Regulations prohibit development of the 76-acre property, which is a [...]

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