Virginia Woolf as storytelling therapist

A while back, Virginia Woolf was my therapist. At least I thought it was Woolf. But maybe it was really Ilana Simons. My confusion came from the fact that I was immersed in the Woolfian therapy found in Simons’  A Life of One’s Own: A Guide to Better Living Through the Wit and Wisdom of Virginia Woolf. Thanks to kind [...]

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Last call for Bloomsbury Artists exhibit

Time is running out to see “A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections” exhibit. The largest collection of Bloomsbury art to have been shown in the states for almost a decade, the exhibit will be in the U.S.  through Sept. 26. Here are the details: What: A Room of Their Own: The [...]

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Still on the hunt for Woolf in contemporary fiction

Back in December 2008, I asked Blogging Woolf readers if they would send me references to Woolf that they come across in fiction. I didn’t realize at the time just how many of these literary allusions I would find or how fascinating and absorbing my research would be. This exploration was initially for my paper [...]

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Iris Origo and Woolf both convey civilian view of war

It’s summertime, and the reading should be easy. At least once in a while. In the past few days, while sitting lakeside, I read three books, a luxury for me. The first was a heavy-hitter. I stumbled across War in Val D’Orcia: An Italian War Diary 1943-1944, while browsing in The Lion Bookshop on Rome’s Via dei [...]

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Woolf in Romania

Knowing of my continued pursuit of Woolf references in fiction, Stuart Clarke of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain pointed me to Olivia Manning’s The Great Fortune, the first book in the Balkan Trilogy, which, combined with the Levant Trilogy, is called Fortunes of War. With a sky-high stack of reading for summer and beyond, [...]

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Clarissa Dalloway’s comeback

While writing in graduate school about the role of geographical citation in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett, I found myself praising Bennett’s approach to recording the history of women much more than I assumed I would have. Despite my praise for Bennett, I do prefer the approach Woolf takes to record the [...]

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Woolf writing for the stage: Take the poll

Alexis Soloski, theatre blogger at The Guardian, argues that novelists cannot write plays. Virginia Woolf does not escape her criticism. To wit: “And I will freely commiserate with anyone forced to endure Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater; that Woolf never intended it for performance only confirms her great intelligence.” Reviewers on this side of the pond, however, have [...]

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Room of Her Own announces deadlines

A Room of Her Own Foundation has announced two competition deadlines for women writers July 31, 2010 The Orlando Prize $1,000 awarded in each of four genres. Prize includes print publication in the Los Angeles Review. Apply online. August 31, 2010 To the Lighthouse Poetry Publication Prize Judge: Alice Quinn $1,000 prize and manuscript publication [...]

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