Virginia Woolf

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• A Room to Write or A Hut of Own’s Own

  
  AccessRomance - All A-Blog — Authority: 464
  Virginia Woolf famously said that for a woman to write she needed a room of her own.  I’ve been writing in the spare room for years, although I do have a desk and bookshelves of my own, and I’ve been quite happy with that.  Even my uninspiring view of an inside wall allows me space to stick up pictures of the ...
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• Behold! My writing cottage unveiled!

  
  Mad Woman in the Forest — Authority: 511
  ::sounds a fanfare:: Without further ado, I bring you the greatest gift a writer can ever receive:
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• Core

  
  Letters from a Librarian — Authority: 98
  [ Flowerville ] What is the value of a philosophy which has no power over life? And so I return to Virginia. I have been thinking much about the value of philosophy -- going again through the morass of difficulties I have with doing this study and this work in an academic setting. I have also been ...
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• Web site launched for 2010 Woolf conference

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  A Web site for the 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and the Natural World has launched, and organizers have announced the conference call for papers , which are due Jan. 15, 2010. The conference, which will be held in the Thomas & King Leadership and Conference Center ...
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• Virginia Woolf, Essayist

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  I just treated myself to the new 2009 edition of The Best American Essays . I’m often left speechless at the incredible diversity of work as well as the brilliance, cleverness, wit and pathos of individual selections. The first essay in the collection, “Taking a Reading” by Sue Allison, starts with, “A ...
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• Way Cool Item of the Day ~ Secrets of the New York Public Library

  
  Snoop du Jour — Authority: 112
  Today’s item is dedicated to the memory of Norbert Pearlroth , head researcher for Ripley’s Believe It Or Not , who sat in the same spot in the research room at the New York Public Library for 52 years - just about every day. Thank you Robin Finn , who wrote the terrific column Secrets of the Stacks last ...
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• "A Room of Ones Own" - Ill be Happy with the Bathroom!

  
  Blogs — Authority: 159
  Virginia Woolf in "A Room of Ones Own" wrote passionately about the need for women to have a place of their own to write and to be creative. Eighty years later, women across the country still have the same lament! Mothers whether they live in mansions or apartments eventually all will get driven to the smallest ...
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• Smith College course features Woolf and friends

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  A Smith College professor will teach a course on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group that offers students the opportunity to work closely with primary materials from the Smith collections. Professor Robert Hosmer, of Smith’s English language and literature department, will teach the course, which is called ...
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• Virginia Woolf: There’s an App for that

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  Being able to download Virginia Woolf novels to Apple’s sleek little iPod means we can now carry her words with us anywhere we go.  Because so far, I haven’t found a pocket that the gizmo — stocked with Woolf novels — doesn’t fit in. Here’s my story. I bought an IPod touch a few weeks ago. Since then, I ...
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• thirty movies hath november - Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

  
  Jockey Full of Bourbon — Authority: 128
  what a groundbreaking movie Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was. the movie of a play that many thought impossible to bring to the screen. the first American movie where the word goddamn was said. the movie where Elizabeth Taylor, disheveled, p... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
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• Virginia Woolf: There’s an App for that

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  Being able to download Virginia Woolf novels to Apple’s sleek little iPod means we can now carry her words with us anywhere we go.  Because so far, I haven’t found a pocket that the gizmo — stocked with Woolf novels — doesn’t fit in. Here’s my story. I bought an IPod touch a few weeks ago. Since then, I ...
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• What book changed your life?

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  In a recent interview , writer Jeanette Winterson was asked, “What book changed your life?” Here is her answer: “The Bible shaped me; Virginia Woolf’s  Orlando shaped my imagination; and Italo Calvino’s  Invisible Cities gave me the courage to write whatever I wanted.” I posed the same question ...
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• Woolf’s Lighthouse on list of 40 personal classics

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  Susan Hill had a mountain of books inside her Gloucestershire farmhouse that she had never made time to read. So she spent a year reading nothing but the unread books that filled her shelves. The result is Howards End Is On the Landing: A Year of Reading From Home , published in August by Profile Books. Included in ...
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• On Favorite Teachers, "A Room Of Ones Own," And Permission To Succeed [Life Lessons]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 819
  A former teacher left writer Karen Houppert $75,000, and her meditation on the reasons why is a moving love letter to feminism, the spirit of collective action, and the impact a beloved mentor can have. Marcia Carlisle was Houpperts professor at Bennington in the early 80s, and Houppert praises her "stealthy ...
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• Aristotle and the Indians (and Us Too)

  
  Aristotle's Feminist Subject — Authority: 467
  I dont know about you, but one of my favorite things about blogging is having friends who teach me new things. One of my friends, Suzanne McCarthy of Suzannes Bookshelf , is a prolific reader who reads blogs, essays, articles, and books, and shares pertinent snippets. At her suggestion, Ive been reading Aristotle ...
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• Top 25 Favorite Writers

  
  Celsius1414 — Authority: 128
  Much like for my favorite movies , here is a list of my Top 25 favorite writers. Vladimir Nabokov Ray Bradbury JRR Tolkien Kurt Vonnegut Douglas Adams Mark Twain The rest in alphabetical order by last name: Robert Benchley Charlotte Brontë Emily Brontë Albert Camus Raymond Chandler Umberto Eco ...
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• Mrs. Dalloway is having a party in San Francisco

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  If you live in the Bay Area, you can go to Mrs. Dalloway’s party. It’s an evening of short stories written by Virginia Woolf and performed by an ensemble of actors at St. Mary’s College of California. According to the school’s Web site , “Wry observations and elegant prose come to life onstage through ...
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• Virginia Woolf: Personal Finance Blogger? | Well-Heeled, with a …

  
  The Wealthy Soul — Authority: 153
  Personal finance nerd, shoe aficionada, food lover, and aspiring tanguera – on a mission to save and invest for tomorrow but live life to the fullest today. See original here:  Virginia Woolf: Personal Finance Blogger? | Well-Heeled, with a …
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• Whose play is it, anyway? On authors and interpreters

  
  Art Scatter — Authority: 423
  Sartre’s “No Exit” on the tilt, at Imago Theatre. Photo: Jerry Mouawad Who wrote that play? I don’t mean, did the modestly talented actor Will Shakespeare really write all those great stageworks, or was he just a convenient front man for Edward de Vere or some other dandy of the ruling class? I mean, is ...
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• When reading Woolf: Read. Think. Repeat.

  
  Blogging Woolf — Authority: 117
  James Joyce detailed Leopold Bloom’s day in Dublin. Virginia Woolf followed Clarissa Dalloway through London on a fine day in June. Ian McEwan told Henry Perowne’s tale on a post-Sept. 11 Saturday in February. And Christopher Isherwood described one day in the life of an ageing professor named George in ...
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