February 2012
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“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via awritersruminations)
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“… but ‘I’ rejected: ‘We’ substituted: to whom at the end there shall be an...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 26 April 1938 (via proustitute)
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“Discretion is not the better part of biography.”
– Lytton Strachey
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Heads up: Carrington, the 1995 film staring Emma Thompson as Bloomsbury painter Carrington, is now streaming on Netflix.
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“There are two principal models for biography in our culture, and perhaps the...”
– from Brooke Allen’s review of Rosamund Bartlett’s new biography on Tolstoy. (Which I incidentally perused an advance copy of last summer!)
January 2012
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“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
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“I’m not sure whether The Times will by now have announced that Virginia is missing. I’m afraid there is not the slightest doubt that she drowned herself about noon last Friday. She had left letters for Leonard and Vanessa. Her stick and footprints were found by the edge of the river.
For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered...
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BLUE BLOOMS OUR YOUTH
A quick break from the Bloomsbury love in an effort of self-promotion:
In case you didn’t know, I am a writer and Smith College senior. I just started a website where I will be blogging essays, criticism, and short fiction; right now I started it off by posting the first paragraph of the novel I am currently working on, which is called The Sibyl and is a retelling of the Roman myth of the...
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acandleandawick:
Marjorie Strachey talks about...
Anonymous asked: Hi - your photo of Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1926, as photographed by Vita Sackville-West - can tell me where it is from (ie the archive)? I am urgently looking for a copy for publication. Thanks!
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December 2011
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“She might have become a glorified diseuse, who frittered away her broader...”
– E.M. Forster on Virginia Woolf, from Virginia Woolf: The Rede Lecture (1942)
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“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at...”
– E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel. (1927)
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“For one moment she felt that if they both got up, here, now on the lawn, and...”
– To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
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November 2011
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“What is the use, she thought, of trying to tell people about one’s past? What is...”
– Virginia Woolf,The Years. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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“It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.”
– Lytton Strachey, Elizabeth and Essex, 1928.
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“The snob is a flutter-brained, hare-brained creature so little satisfied with...”
– Virginia Woolf, “Am I A Snob?”, from Moments of Being.
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acandleandawick:
Clive Bells remembers Lytton...
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Anonymous asked: How was James Joyce associated with the Bloomsbury Group?
October 2011
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“As an experience, madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed...”
– Virginia Woolf, in a letter to Ethel Smyth.
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“Having failed as (a) a civil servant, (b) a novelist, (c) an editor, (d) a...”
– Leonard Woolf, joking to Lytton Strachey.
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“By and large, his somewhat compulsive tendency to regulate and keep track—he noted his mileage every day, recorded how much they spent on every item of clothing, made long lists of gardening seeds to purchase, entered into Sebastopolian campaigns of protest letters—was steadying for Virginia Woolf, though sometimes it has a quality both touching and absurd. When she had an affair of some...
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“How did she come up with the title [Blue Nights]? ‘I really don’t...”
– Joan Didion, in a September 30th Publishers Weekly article about her new book, Blue Nights. Love seeing one of my favorite authors mention another favorite author.
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September 2011
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“When she considered the multitudinous objects which belonged to her, or, better...”
– Lytton Strachey, “The Old Age of Queen Victoria,” published in The New Republic in 1921.
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