Woolf sightings

Updated 8 October 2009

Spotted Virginia Woolf lately? Tell us.

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Woolf sightings:
Virginia’s Likes & Dislikes

Blogging Woolf continues to collect “Virginia Woolf’s Likes and Dislikes” for a monograph in Cecil Woolf Publishers’ Bloomsbury Heritage series. Submit your entries in the comments section on this page, citing the source of the quote (Woolf’s Diary or Letters), volume, and page number.

Contributors should also include their name and academic affiliation, if appropriate, so you can be credited for your contribution in the Bloomsbury Heritage volume Cecil plans to edit and publish. Submit your like or dislike here.

Woolf sightings: Scholarly

• Bibliography of Woolf studies published in 1999
• Bibliography of Woolf studies published in 1998
• Bibliography of Woolf studies published in 1997
• Bibliography of Woolf studies published in 1996
• Literary criticism

Woolf sightings: Popular fiction and non-fiction

• “Passing Glances” compiled by Sally Greene, former bibliographer/historian of the International Virginia Woolf Society
• Vanity Fair The Portraits: A Century of Iconic Images by Graydon Carter
• When I Forgot by Elina Hirvonen
• The White Garden: A Novel of Virginia Woolf by Stephanie Barron. Bantam. Sept. 2009. 320p. ISBN 978-0-553-80735-6. $25. Barron (Jane and the Barque of Frailty) introduces Jo Bellamy, whose studies of Woolf’s famous White Garden trigger disturbing questions about Woolf’s suicide. The best-selling author lives near Denver. Read a review.
• The Machiavellian Minister by Charlie Frémaux. 2009. Read more.
• Sighting Woolf in contemporary British crime fiction
• Help track Woolf in contemporary fiction

Woolf sightings: Print media

Go here for a listing of references to Woolf in newspapers and magazines available online.

Woolf sightings: Broadcast media

• “What People Were Reading During the Depression“ -NPR.org, June 16, 2009
  “That same month, Virginia Woolf cashed in on the Flush craze by bringing out a biography of the pooch; the ad promised that the forthcoming shaggy dog story was ‘certain to be Mrs. Woolf’s most popular book.’ Clearly, the copywriter was not a fan of Woolf’s experiments in literary modernism.”
• Bloomsbury house history search“ – BBC, Jan. 29, 2009
• “In ‘Freshwater,’ A Lighter Side of Virginia Woolf“ – NPR.org, Jan. 25, 2009
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• “Selected Shorts: ‘Family Matters’“ – WNYC.org, Dec. 28, 2008
  “We complete this program with Rick Moody’s poignant story, `Boys.’ In a style reminiscent of Virginia Woolf’s The Years it uses stream-of-consciousness and repetition to chronicle the life of two brothers from birth to adulthood in a brief but rich narrative. “
• “Virginia Woolf, at intersection of science and art“ – NPR, Aug. 2, 2008
• “What your stuff says about you“ - NPR, May 26, 2008
  “A tiny gift edition of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.”
• “Farmhouse reclaims artist’s work” – BBC, March 28, 2007
• “Virginia Woolf portrait uncovered” – BBC, April 5, 2004
• Interview with Nigel Nicholson about his biography, Virginia Woolf – NPR, Oct. 25, 2000

Woolf sightings: Music

• Indigo Girls song lyrics - ”Virginia Woolf”
• “Eminent Victorians” by Princeton includes four Woolf-related tracks. Read more.
• “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Jimmy Smith

Woolf sightings: Web sites

• “Odd facts about Nobel Prize winners,” CNN.com, Oct. 6, 2009
• “Join us at Manchester Pride,” The Lesbian and Gay Foundation, Aug. 18, 2009
  “Virginia Woolf and Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative government for inadvertently mobilising the gay community in the face of Section 28.”
• “Open Thread: When Art and Ideals Collide,” Feministe, July 28, 2009
  “For example, I love Virginia Woolf, but I am Jewish …”
• Interview: Agnes Varda, Eye Weekly.com, July 23, 2009
  “When I saw what painting had done in the last 30 years, what writers like Joyce or Virginia Woolf or Faulkner or Hemingway had done, these people changed so much.”
• “The Hours and Pink Grapefruit With Pink Peony Petals,” Virginia Woolf and Tea Before Bedtime, July 14, 2009
• “The Vacation That Almost Destroyed a Marriage: Author’s New Novel Explores Power and Limits of Love,” PR.com, June 27, 2009
  “In a style that is part Ian McEwan and part Virginia Woolf“
• “I’d love to repeat Abhay Deol in a film: Anurag Kashyap,” Sify Movies, June 8, 2009
• “Virginia Woolf on June nights and roses,” Colleen Smith, Examiner.com, June 7, 2009
• “Donovan Leitch Pens Woolf Musical,” ContactMusic.com, May 24, 2009
• “Do Women Need Their Own Space?,” Indra Adnan, Huffington Post, May 14, 2009
• “The Pain and The Itch: Virginia Woolf-lite,” Broadwayworld.com, March 17, 2009
• National Portrait Gallery: Virginia Woolf, sitter in 60 portraits
• Teacher Cyberguide: Life and Works of Virginia Woolf
• Virginia Woolf on Women and Fiction
• “A Feminist at Fifty,” Jayne Lyn Stahl, Atlantic Free Press, Feb. 20, 2009
  “There’s always Susan Sontag, of course, Anais Nin, and Virginia Woolf, but there aren’t nearly as many women in the annals of world literature as there are men.”
• “Happy Birthday, Virginia Woolf, novelist and essayist” - Finding Dulcinea, Jan. 25, 2009
• “Called to the Table” - Bates College online magazine Bates Matters, Jan. 6, 2009
  “In presenting Bates Contemplates Food to the College audience at Convocation this fall, I juxtaposed two stories, one fictional and one factual. The first story, about two meals the narrator eats on her visit to the fictional university of Oxbridge, is taken from the opening chapter of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own, where Woolf introduces her argument about the relationship among money, space, and creative thought.”
• “Two Versions of Virginia Woolf’s Freshwater Are Combined for World Premiere in NYC; Cast Announced“ – Playbill, Jan. 5, 2009
• “With a little thought, paint can help transform a room” - silive.com, Dec. 10, 2008
  “Throughout the first half of the 20th century the Bloomsbury writers, painters and designers exerted a powerful influence on English culture. Quentin Bell and his daughter, Virginia Nicholson, tell the story of the Charleston farmhouse in the Sussex Downs, linking it with some of the major figures who spent time there, including Bell’s aunt, Virginia Woolf.”
• “Waving to Virginia” – Patti Smith reading Virginia Woolf on YouTube with Jesse Smith on piano
• Virginia Woolf on Facebook
• Virginia Woolf’s MySpace page
• Worldwide Woolf
• Timeline Results for Virginia Woolf
• Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets: Virginia Woolf
• Virginia Woolf News on The New York Times Web Page
• Virginia Woolf Center
• Woolf Texts and Covers
• MIT’s Open CourseWare: Interpretation: Virginia Woolf’s Shakespeare
• The Virginia Woolf Trail

Woolf sightings: Blogs

• Virginia Woolf Tag Page on Technorati
• Orlando – a French blog about the Woolf novel
• “Children of Divorce are Good Actors,” by Ilana Simons – The Literary Mind, July 30, 2009
• Review: “A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf“ - The Zen Leaf, July 30, 2009
• “Who’s inspired by Virginia Woolf” – My Inner French Girl, July 28, 2009
• “I love Virginia Woolf more than is healthy” – The Beaver, July 26, 2009
• “Shedworking: Virginia Woolf’s garden office” – Shedworking, July 26, 2009
• “The Waves and a British Breakfast” – Tea & Virginia Woolf Before Bedtime, July 22, 2009
• “Virginia Woolf’s Multi-Personal Dialogues,” by Thomas Scheff – On Fiction, July 22, 2009
• “Virginia Woolf on Henry James,” Fernham, July 17, 2009
• “Literature Review: Virginia Woolf, “An Unwritten Novel“ – Pol Culture, July 5, 2009
• “A Room of One’s Own (With Apologies to Virginia Woolf)”- Abigail Rieley, July 5, 2009
• Thoughts of the Common Reader
• Virginia Woolf
• 3504: A Student Woolf Blog
• “An Introduction“ – My TPM Blog, June 8, 2009
  “The English Lit class assigned Virginia Woolf. To 19-year-old boys. In 1968. It turned out I was afraid of Virginia Woolf.”
• Literature Review: Virginia Woolf, “A Haunted House“- – Pol Culture, Feb. 3, 2009
• “Virginia Woolf on Reading” – Book Oven, Jan. 31, 2009.
• “Seven Questions on Virginia Woolf” - Jacket Copy, Jan. 28, 2009.
• “Updikes’s Essays and the Virginia Woolf Test” – Neuron Culture, Jan. 28, 2009.
• “Why I love Virginia Woolf” - Ancient Hebrew Poetry, Jan. 28, 2009.
• “Orlando,” Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way, Jan. 26, 2009.
• “Virginia Woolf’s Kitchen” – Mae’s Food Blog, Jan. 26, 2009.
• “2 Scripts Later, A Woolf PlayMakes its Debut“ – NYT City Room Blog, Jan. 16, 2009.
• “The Waves behind the scenes“ – TheatreFromScratch, Jan. 6, 2009.
• “60 in 60: #18 – Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (Penguin’s Great Ideas)” – Ecstatic Days, Jan. 1, 2009.
• “‘My bread’ – Virginia Woolf” – John Baker’s Blog, Dec. 26, 2009.
• “Jeff Ray’s Top 10” - SFBG Music Blog, Dec. 24, 2008
  “Favorite book: bad year for me in new books since I am in school. But I did get to read some old British modern novels. My favorite was Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love.”
• “Discovering Virginia Woolf” – Spirituality Sparks, Oct. 20, 2008
• “Can Virginia Woolf be considered a feminist?” - enotes.com, Dec. 2, 2008
• “Discovering Virginia Woolf” – Spirituality Sparks, Oct. 20, 2008.
• “Virginia Woolf and Boring Habits by Ilana Simons” – Penguin U.S.A. Blog, Nov. 28, 2007.
• “Passing Glances at Virginia Woolf” – Fernham, Nov. 28, 2007
• “Woolfiana” – Fernham, Jan. 30, 2007
• “Virginia Woolf” – A Feminist Blog, Dec. 26, 2006.
• “Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas: synopsis, quotes, bibliography” – feminish, July 29, 2006.
• Virginia Woolf posts on Maitresse
• “The Most Virginia Woolf of SF Writers” - bookslut.com, May 2005.
• “The Postmodern Animal: The Ground: Virginia Woolf” – Artrift, Oct. 16, 2004.

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• Print media Woolf sightings
• Woolf likes & dislikes