New book Modernist Commitments has Woolf chapter

Modernist Commitments: Ethics, Politics and Transnational Modernism, a recently published book by Jessica Berman, has a major chapter on Virginia Woolf. That chapter, the book’s first, is titled “Intimate and Global: Ethical Domains from Woolf to Rhys.” In an email to the VWoolf Listserv, Berman said the material may be familiar to some Woolf scholars, as [...]

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Woolf sightings: Virginia’s connections to Downton Abbey

The fascinating second season of the PBS Masterpiece Classic series Downton Abbey is in full swing. And a couple of Woolf sightings can’t resist connecting Woolf to the show via the English country manor of lover and friend Vita Sackville-West and via World War I as presented in Mrs. Dalloway. If you missed any episodes [...]

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Virginia Woolf: From journaling to blogging

Today we have a link to a blog post sent in by a Blogging Woolf reader. It discusses Virginia Woolf’s lifelong habit of keeping a diary and how that practice has morphed into blogging for many today. Is this a sad development or just a reality we must accept? And does the medium affect the [...]

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More on Bloomsbury West

As Paula observed, I’m always on the lookout for references to Woolf in contemporary fiction and so honed right in on Benjamin Roesch’s story,  “Bloomsbury Heads West,” from a list of 49 sightings in one of the December Woolf sightings. Of course it wasn’t enough for me to enjoy this provocative story; I wanted to [...]

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Woolf sightings: Mark May 11 for Hyde Park Gate News

The most notable offering among this group of Woolf sightings is the date May 11. It marks the British Library exhibition on “British literature and place” that will include an issue of Hyde Park Gate News, the childhood newspaper written by Virginia Woolf describing a summer visit to a lighthouse. Scroll down to #10 for the link. If [...]

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Virginia Woolf: Ich bin kein berliner

Next month, Penguin Books will publish A Small Circus, Hans Fallada‘s dark but humorous account of summer in a small German town in 1929. Virginia and Leonard Woolf visited Germany that same year. They traveled by boat and spent Jan. 17 -21 in Berlin. The impetus for the trip was Vita Sackville-West’s 10-week stay in [...]

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Read the reviews on Mantex

Roy Johnson of the Mantex website is kind enough to keep Blogging Woolf posted about updates to its information about Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. Here are links to recent Woolf-related book reviews: Virginia Woolf: A Biography by Elizabeth Wright Virginia Woolf: An Introduction by Alexandra Harris Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination [...]

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More ways to write a Virginia Woolf note

Last week, when Alice Lowe wrote a piece about finding a note card featuring a Virginia Woolf quote at a Trader Joe’s checkout, I felt the urge to look for more Woolf cards. A Google search later, I had found these cards: A couple dozen featuring Woolf, Woolf quotes and Woolf books on Zazzle Several choices — from headshots [...]

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Woolf sightings: Big name in public domain & the Beatles

Writers who died before 1942 have now entered the pubic domain, and Woolf, of course, is among them. Links to a number of stories about that are below, along with a brief rumination about whether Virginia would have sung along with Beatles songs (#30) and much, much more. As copyright ends, we can take the [...]

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British Library treasures now available as ebooks worldwide

The British Library has gone modern. The library has launched an ‘eBook Treasures‘ series that allows users to explore some of the British Library’s most treasured manuscripts in detail. Included are text, video and audio interpretation. The eBook Treasures are viewable in full-screen high-definition, with realistic page-turning capabilities. Works by Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Lewis [...]

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