Major events of 1912 featured on SuchFriends blog

The SuchFriends blog has announced that it will travel back in time to 1912, the year the RMS Titanic sank — and the year of a major event in Virginia Woolf’s life. Blogger Kathleen Dixon Donnelly says she will discuss Woolf’s major event, as well as others that took place in Ireland, England, France and America that year. On [...]

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Woolf and the gang in the American West

Here is a fun Woolf sighting that would have been buried in this week’s long list if Alice Lowe hadn’t called my attention to it with her comment. Titled “Bloomsbury Heads West,” this short story published on the Seven Days website, transports Virginia Woolf to the 21st-century American West, where she appears in the form of [...]

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Woolf sightings: Swimming in Malibu, with Man Ray at the Met

It’s the end of the year, so we have lots of Woolf sightings connecting her to the literature of 2011. That is to be expected. But this week we also have a quirky one linking her to a pop song about swimming/suicide in Malibu. That one is a stretch for anyone who knows Woolf. And there [...]

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The Hours…of Clarissa Dalloway’s party

While doing research on Mrs. Dalloway a few years ago, one of the aspects of the novel I became interested in was the role of time construction in the narrative. As we know, Mrs. Dalloway takes place in a few different times and places. However, a more curious question became how many hours, from Clarissa going [...]

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Woolf sightings: A miscellany

The past week offers a miscellany of Woolf sightings, from Woolf-style instructions for preparing Clafoutis Grandmère (#18) to her epitaph (#4) to a paean to beautiful books, including those published by the Hogarth Press (#27). And For My Next Midlife Crisis: It’s A Shame About Ray, Huffington Post UK The eponymous Ray receives only a cameo role [...]

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New cover designs Woolfians love to hate

The new cover designs by Angus Hyland for a hardback series of Woolf’s major works inspired numerous comments on the VWoolf Listserv this week. Trouble is, all of them were negative. The series includes Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, and Orlando and is available on Penguin Books U.K. site for 14 pounds (about $21) each. The covers are modeled [...]

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Woolf on New Yorker cover

It doesn’t rank up there with the 1937 cover of Time magazine, but Virginia Woolf appears on the cover of the Dec. 5 issue of The New Yorker—if you look carefully. Titled “Black Friday,” the cover by Daniel Clowes shows a middle-aged bespectacled man entering a book store, apparently looking for . . . books. Hmm, go [...]

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Virginia Woolf: The Flight of Time exhibit in NYC

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Inc. is staging the exhibition Virginia Woolf: The Flight of Time. The exhibition, which is open to the public, runs Nov. 21 through Jan. 14 at the Forbes Galleries, at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street in New York City. The galleries, which are located in the lobby of Forbes Magazine’s [...]

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Woolf sightings: What if Virginia were …

What if Virginia Woolf were a food writer? What if she were a dog? This week’s Woolf sightings have a few “what-ifs” and a lot of other stuff too. Sightings include inspiring new cover designs by Angus Hyland for a hardback series of Woolf’s major works. The covers are modeled after the textile designs of the Omega [...]

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