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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 6d

Virginia Woolf said, "Thinking is my fighting," and what better way to aid our thinking than by reading books -- particularly those they try to ban. Thank you, brave librarians! bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/23/f... #VirginiaWoolf

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 8d

Searchable PDF of Virginia Woolf's autobiographical "Moments of Being" is now online -- for free. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/30/s... #VirginiaWoolf

Searchable PDF of Moments of Being online

The second edition of Moments of Being (1985) consists of five pieces that make up Virginia Woolf’s only autobiographical writing, with the exception of her diaries and letters. This edition is now…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 14d

Freedom of mind is the one thing #tyranny cannot destroy. And Virginia Woolf told us why. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/23/f... #VirginiaWoolf #resist

Freedom of mind is the one thing tyranny can’t destroy

“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own, p. 76 Yesterday, af…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · 23d

The website is live and the call for papers is out for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, with its theme of "Woolf and Sound." bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/15/c... #VirginiaWoolf #callforpapers #woolf2026

Call for papers for 35th Woolf Conference: Woolf and Sound

The website for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound is now live, and the call for proposals is out, with abstracts due Dec. 20.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 7

Newly discovered Virginia Woolf proofs of "Orlando," "The Waves" and "Common Reader: Second Series" are now available online, thanks to Edward Mendelson and @columbiauniversity.bsky.social bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/07/n... #VirginiaWoolf

Newly discovered Woolf proofs now available online

Edward Mendelson of Columbia University has shared scanned images of three sets of proofs newly discovered in Columbia’s library. They include two Virginia Woolf novels, as well as an edition…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 4

@nytimes.com critic says: At 100 years old, Mrs. Dalloway is a must-read for today's technological world bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/04/n... #VirginiaWoolf #MrsDalloway

NYT says: Mrs. Dalloway is a must-read for today

At 100 years old, Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway is a must-read for all of us living in today’s technological world, according to New York Times critic A.O. Scott.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Something to lighten your heart in these troubled times.

Aut. Stuart Miller 📖✍️🤓 @authorstuartmiller.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me"

This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵

#VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental

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Secret Life of Books Podcast @slobpodcast.bsky.social · Sep 1

Part 4 of our Virginia Woolf mini-series is out now!

This week, we unpack Woolf’s essay, A Room of One’s Own, and:

📚 Her vision for shared cultural progress
🧠 Her push for mental androgyny
🏠 What a “room of one’s own” actually entails

🎧 Listen now!

#virginiawoolf #aroomofonesown #feminist

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London Literary Salon @litsalon.bsky.social · Sep 2

“The things people don’t say, the truths that hover just beyond language.” Join us in St Ives this October to explore Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out BOOK HERE: www.litsalon.co.uk/Studies/virg... #VirginiaWoolf #ModernistLiterature #BloomsburyGroup #StIves

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Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social · Aug 13

In today's #ModWrite, Virginia Woolf redefines the audibility of servants in Mrs Dalloway, revealing how class and hierarchy shape their voices and their silence. #WoolfandSound #VirginiaWoolf #LiteraryAnalysis #ServitudeinLiterature

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Lucky you. I hope you enjoy it.

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Chronically Online @chronically-online.bsky.social · Aug 24

Love these modern cover designs for classic books #virginiawoolf
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2 books. Left mrs dalloway Virginia Woolf. Green background. Small pattern of Green trees and a woman in thr middle (drawn, not photi)
Right the voyage out , Virginia Woolf. Sea Blue background. Clouds and an ocean liner sailing with steam coming out of its chimneys

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @litcamb.bsky.social sixth Woolf season: 10 live Zoom lectures and/or seminars September 2025 through June 2026. #VirginiaWoolf #LiteratureCambridge bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/01/v...

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @LitCamb season six

Join Literature Cambridge September 2025 to June 2026 for a live online season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf on the theme of Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 23

New Turkish translation of seven Virginia Woolf's essays on writing, edited by Mine Özyurt Kılıç, is now out. wp.me/p5Yfi-5LM #VirginiaWoolf #Turkishtranslation

New Turkish translation of Woolf essays now out

A Turkish translation of seven essays by Virginia Woolf, in progress for three years, is now out.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 18

It's only fitting that we send/post/gather flowers in tribute and memoriam to Elisa Kay Sparks, Virginia Woolf scholar, writer, artist, friend who specialized in Woolf flowers and gardens. @cupress.bsky.social #VirginiaWoolf bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/17/f...

Flowers in memoriam to Elisa Kay Sparks

I could never think of Virginia Woolf and flowers without thinking of Elisa Kay Sparks, who died Aug. 16 in Seattle, Washington.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 7

Last month, readers and scholars of #VirginiaWoolf gathered in London and Brighton for the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf #WoolfandDissidence. Check out some of the faces at the opening and closing receptions. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/06/w...

We say “hello.” We say “goodbye” at #WoolfandDissidence

Just like the Beatles, we said “hello” and we said “goodbye” at receptions that marked both ends of the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Dissidenc…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Did Virginia Woolf think she had a “chapter gone wrong” in her 1931 novel "The Waves"? Read about Edward Mendelson's research at bloggingwoolf.org/2025/07/31/e... and in @thetls.bsky.social. His book "The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway" from @columbiaup.bsky.social is out next month.
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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Cast a vote for the Orlando oak at Knole Park in England as the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year 2025. It is thought to be the famous oak featured in Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando." bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/05/v... #VirginiaWoolf

Vote for the oak in Orlando as UK Tree of the Year

Cast a vote for the Orlando oak at Knole Park in England, which is up for the title of Tree of the Year 2025. It is thought to be the one featured in Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando. And the …

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 3

This just in! Plans are being made for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound. Get the details at bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/03/n... #VirginiaWoolf

News: Istanbul is location for 35th Annual Virginia Woolf Conference

This just in! Plans are now being made for the 35th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Sound. It will be held June 24-28, 2026, in Istanbul, Turkey,hosted by İsta…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 3

What are you working on?

Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 3

Here is an interesting Substack post about how Virginia Woolf’s wartime experiences affected her thinking and her writing as she penned her final novel, “Between the Acts.”

Beth Kephart @bethkephart.bsky.social · May 16

How do we write in the midst of tumult? What does #VirginiaWoolf teach us as she works against and through her last book? Thoughts today on this. #BetweentheActs #writinglife #writingcommunity #writinglife #writingthroughtumult thehushandthehowl.substack.com/p/final-acts

Final Acts

in the midst of war, in the curve of self-doubt, at a time of tumult, Virginia Woolf found pleasure in the writing of her final book

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 3

I love seeing that Virginia Woolf’s “To the Lighthouse” is on the list as one of the top 10 books of the 20th century. #VirginiaWoolf

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · Aug 3

The greatest books of all time, as voted by 125 celebrated contemporary authors www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/30/w...

The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125 Famous Authors

Why Tolstoy is 11.6% better than Shakespeare.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 3

This month, catch a Virginia Woolf lecture with @litcamb.bsky.social. Learn about war trauma in "Mrs. Dalloway" to sapphic love in "Orlando" to politics in "Mrs. Dalloway" with @markhussey.bsky.social and more. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/08/03/c... #VirginiaWoolf

Catch a Woolf lecture in August with @LitCamb

This month, Literature Cambridge is repeating four popular lectures from previous Virginia Woolf Seasons. And you can catch up with those you missed online.

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 2

Here's a Call for Papers for the one-day Mrs Dalloway Symposium on Oct. 31 at the Old Burgh School at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. bloggingwoolf.org/2025/07/22/c... #VirginiaWoolf

Call for papers for one-day Mrs. Dalloway symposium

Take a look at the Mrs Dalloway Symposium Call for Papers for a one-day symposium organized by Ellie Mitchell and Valery Goutorova Oct. 31 at the Old Burgh School at the Univerity of St. Andrews i…

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Aug 2

I had never heard of this, but now I am intrigued: "The Life of Violet" by Virginia Woolf, published by Princeton University Press press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #VirginiaWoolf

The Life of Violet

Virginia Woolf’s first fully realized work of fiction—published in its final, revised form for the first timeA beguiling trio of fantastical and farcical anti-fairy tales about a giantess who builds a...

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