Posted in films, Monk's House, Virginia Woolf, tagged BBC, Leonard Woolf, Monk's House, Paul Martin, Rodmell, Virginia Woolf on Friday 3 May 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This video tour of Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Monk’s House in Rodmell, Sussex was produced by the BBC and is hosted by Paul Martin.
If you haven’t walked in her steps through England — or even if you have — this is a great way to get an up-close look at the Woolfs’ longtime home.
Posted in events, Leonard Woolf, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Leonard Woolf, VirginiaWoolf on Wednesday 3 April 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf by Natania Rosenfeld, available from Princeton UP
The first meeting of the Leonard Woolf Society is set for May 24, 2013, at Room G37, Senate House, Malet St., WC1, London. The time and theme will be announced later, according to organizers.
A Day Symposium on Leonard Woolf’s The Village in the Jungle was held Saturday, March 9, at Hertford College, Oxford. It was hosted by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College to mark the centenary of the publication of Leonard Woolf’s path-breaking first novel, set in then Ceylon, The Village in the Jungle (1913).
Read more about the symposium.
Posted in Woolf diary, tagged East Sussex, Leonard Woolf, T. S. Eliot, University of Sussex, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf diaries on Saturday 12 January 2013 | 4 Comments »
Personal details of Virginia Woolf’s final years are available to the public for the first time after the University of Sussex acquired this engagement diary and seven more at a Sotheby’s auction.
The University of Sussex has purchased Virginia Woolf’s small pocket engagement diaries that she used to detail her personal life from 1930 to 1941. The last entry is for March 28, 1941, which is written in pencil by Leonard Woolf, and simply states “Died.”
The University of Sussex has purchased Virginia Woolf’s small pocket engagement diaries that she used to detail her personal life from 1930 to 1941. The last entry is for March 28, 1941, which is written in pencil by Leonard Woolf, and simply states “Died.”
The diaries briefly record Woolf’s meetings with contemporaries, including E. M. Forster and T. S. Eliot, along with visits to her artist sister Vanessa Bell. They also indicate when she would be staying at her home Monk’s House in Rodmell, East Sussex.
Some of the diaries include pencil lines through several dates and appointments, accompanied by the word “Bed,”indicating periods when she was experiencing health problems.
The University’s Special Collections has an extensive collection of materials related to Woolf. It bought the diaries to complement the Monks House Papers, which were donated to the University’s Special Collections in 1972 and contain Woolf’s correspondence from other writers, family, friends, admirers and publishers. They also include her reading notebooks, drafts of essays and typescripts of some of her works, proofed and corrected in her own hand.
The Monks House Papers fall into three groups: letters, manuscripts and press-cuttings. There is documentation of Woolfs career from her earliest journalism to what was possibly her final short fiction, The Watering Place, a two-page manuscript which draws on a diary entry of 1941 written shortly before her suicide.
Fiona Courage, special collections manager, said: “The collection very much represents Woolf’s ‘everyday’ life in the same way that the pocket engagement diaries do. As with the engagement diaries, our collections relate to Woolf as an individual rather than her public persona of novelist, reviewer and essayist.
“The activities recorded in these engagement diaries may not have found their way into her more detailed daily diaries, but are significant in terms of her daily life, her social circle and her physical and mental state. The diaries also complement a set of appointment diaries belonging to Leonard Woolf, and held within his papers at the University.”
She added that these diaries have never been made publically available for research.“By acquiring them we can now make them accessible to scholars, enthusiasts and the general public.”
The University was able to raise the £60,000 necessary to buy the diaries with support from the V&A/MLA Purchase Grant Fund*, the Friends of the National Libraries and a number of individual donors.
Besides the Monk’s House Papers and the small engagement diaries, the University of Sussex Special Collections holds the following related materials:
Additional biographical and literary manuscripts of Virginia Woolf that were at Monk’s House are now in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library in New York. The Berg Collection holds the largest collection of Woolf manuscripts in the world.
Read more:
Posted in Bloomsbury, music, MySpace, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, tagged Bloomsbury, Leonard Woolf, Princeton, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, Woolf blog, Woolf music on Friday 21 November 2008 | 6 Comments »
Princeton. It’s not just your grandfather’s school any more. Now it’s the name of a California band with a debut album called Bloomsbury.
The album is a four-song disc ”based on the lives of four members of the influential Bloomsbury intellectual collective of the early 20th century.”
Songs feature four well-known Bloomsbury figures — Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey.
Song titles are: “The Waves,” “Leonard Woolf,” “Eminent Victorians,” and “Ms. Bentwich.”
Of the four, “The Waves” is the most popular one downloaded from iTunes. There, each song costs 99 cents. The whole disc can also be streamed from their Myspace page.
Read a December 2008 update about the group’s album here. Then read more about Princeton’s Bloomsbury here and in Spin.
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