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1 day ago · Elif Shafak gave the annual "Room of One's Own" lecture at this year's spring Cambridge Literary Festival on the topic of "Virginia Woolf's Politics of Peace." The lecture, the festival's second, provides an opportunity for England's foremost women writers to contemplate how far we have come since Virginia Woolf said ‘"lock up your libraries if…
4 days ago · At first, an unassuming farmer's cottage, then the home of Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard (purchased for a mere £700 in 1919), Monk's House has been lovingly preserved – still full of its past owners' books and artwork collections; a place where writing and ideation by one of the 20th century's greatest minds could be pursued with ...
1 day ago · Woolf began writing in her 20s, following much encouragement from her father. She married Leonard Woolf in 1912 and was known professionally as Virginia Woolf. Woolf’s most notable works include Mrs Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own, and To the Lighthouse. She was homeschooled, with her studies focused on Victorian literature and the English ...
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18 hours ago · This is the fourth and final post on W.G. Sebald in Context, an anthology of critical essays which came out last September from Cambridge University Press. It contains thirty-eight essays on Sebald by specialists from across Europe, Great Britain, the Middle East, and the United States.
1 day ago · So I’m always looking for the books that spark conversation, and, to paraphrase Leonard Cohen, I’ve found that cracks let opinions in. ... By Virginia Woolf (Penguin Classics, 240 pp ...
3 days ago · The house for Pendleton in Beverly Hills was one of the first and most complete realizations of Woolf's Hollywood Regency style. With the large front entrance door, mansard roof, and symmetrical oval windows flanking the front door, the residence contains all of Woolf's signature style.
2 days ago · Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill #ABookADayInMay Day 26. StuckinaBook All May 26, 2024 2010s, 2014, ACOB2024, Offill 8 Comments. I can’t remember who first recommended Dept. of Speculation (2014) to me, but it was on one of the posts where I talked about loving books told in fragments – specifically Kate Briggs’ This Little Art ...
