A book by any other name ….

Alice Lowe, contributor to Blogging Woolf, on her latest monograph in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, “Virginia Woolf as Memoirist: ‘I am made and remade continually’”

Alice Lowe -- still writing

It’s a monograph: “a specialist work of writing on a single subject or an aspect of a subject, usually by a single author.” But indulge me–it has an ISBN, an International Standard Book Number, so let’s call it a book–a small book, but a book (we won’t trivialize it with “booklet” or “bookette”). Thank you!

That said, I’m happy to announce that Virginia Woolf as Memoirist: ‘I am made and remade continually’ has just been released by Cecil Woolf Publishers in London. This is my second inclusion in the Bloomsbury Heritage Series, which includes more than 70 publications about the lives and work of Virginia Woolf and others in the Bloomsbury group.

Cecil Woolf is the nephew of Leonard Woolf and the last living link to Virginia Woolf; he proudly points to Virginia’s mentions of him in her diary as “the boy with the sloping nose.” Cecil’s wife, Jean Moorcroft Wilson, is the general editor of the series…

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Woolf sightings: From Woolf fan Bill Nighy to TV show “Friends”

Woolf sightings appear online daily, and Blogging Woolf posts the briefest of them on Facebook. But today we have gathered a few to share with readers here as well. Here they are:

• Virginia Woolf as a teacher of fashion lessons.
• Woolf is one of the guests at a Tea with Mr. Hardy event.
• Teju Cole’s first book of essays will include one on Virginia Woolf.
• Whose voice do we hear in the novel “Adeline”? Virginia Woolf’s or Norah Vincent’s?
• It’s pricey, but you can spend the night in or near Bloomsbury-related digs–from Sissinghurst to Charleston.
• Exhibit for Julie Margaret Cameron makes yahoonews. There is also a story on NPR.
• Portrait of a mother as Virginia Woolf, painted on a ceiling, Sistine Chapel style.
• Woolfians are falling in love with actor Bill Nighy, who has identified himself as a fan of Virginia Woolf. In a recent article, he said he is reading The Voyage Out, his 5th Woolf novel in a row.
• Here’s how Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group are like the TV series “Friends.”
• Woolf is among writers who loved a good walk.
• Woolf’s relevance today regarding women’s power to stop war.

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