Last week, NYPL Berg Collection librarian Rebecca Filner gave me the hot tip that I could find unpublished letters written by Vanessa Bell to Maynard Keynes at the Morgan Library & Museum. Today ...
This week’s Woolf sightings use a Virginia Woolf quote to justify recommending a good dinner as an excellent Valentine’s Day tribute (# 7, 25), cite Woolf as the inspiration for the song ...
My fifth day at the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection was yesterday. But since I skipped out early to go to the Athena Film Festival at Barnard College, I don’t have a lot to say about ...
Door to the Berg Collection After four hours of reading mostly unpublished letters from Vanessa Bell to her sister Virginia Woolf today, I felt sad. The letters — and there are 371 of them dati...
Today at the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, I got firsthand help from curator Isaac Gewirtz. First, he showed me an article he wrote comparing the proof copy of Virginia Woolf’s A R...
The fall 2012 issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany invites brief analyses and explorations of how queer studies can help or has helped illuminate Woolf’s life and work, and vice versa – how Woolf’s...
Rebecca Filner, librarian at the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection, doesn’t leave her job behind when she walks out of the Schwarzman Building on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue. Wha...
This unusual pair of earrings must be shared. Take a look at the “Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Typewriter Earrings.” As the name implies, they combine an image of a vintage typewriter ...
Nervous. Anxious. Excited. Awed. Those were my top four feelings today as I walked into the Schwarzman Building of the New York Public Library for the first day of my Short-Term Research Fellowship. ...
The 2013 volume of Woolf Studies Annual will be devoted to the topic of Jews and/or Jewishness in Woolf’s writing. We are less interested in the question of whether or not Woolf herself was or was no...
I am two weeks late with this. Life interrupted my efforts to celebrate Virginia Woolf’s 130th birthday with style. Here, instead, is a collection of birthday wishes from around the World Wide ...
An Australian play that includes a character struggling with a thesis on Virginia Woolf (#12). An investment piece that includes a long Woolf quote (#21). A Broadway play that features two Bloomsbury...
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 title...
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 cou...
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 ...
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...
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 H...
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 ye...
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 b...
Virginia Woolf Is My Pen Pal note card 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 fo...
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 Vir...
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 de...
Sabrina Card uses the phrase "Whatever pieces" and cites Woolf's quote on her redbubble page. I was working my way through a backed-up express line at Trader Joe’s one day over t...
Winter is upon us; fog, frost, every horror. One creeps about the house longing only for bed. Even without a cold, one’s nose drips perpetually. The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 2, 492 ...
Night and Day: Monk’s House, Rodmell (2011), an original cut paper collage by Amanda White that is part of her Writers' Houses series. See more at www.amandawhite-contemporaryna iveart.com. Woolf...
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...
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,R...
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 ...
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...
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 publishe...
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