Latest posts tagged with #Woolfpack on Bluesky
female practitioners...chosen not to fulfill their own biological destiny and therefore have had more time to concentrate on their work. ...by engaging with the world on other terms... 190
#RachelCuskTogether #Kudos Also G. Stein, S.T. Warner, G. O'Keeffe, V. Woolf, H. DeWitt! #Woolfpack
Everything has been used up, he said, except I suppose, Eduardo added, the waves, which continue to pound on the shore and will still be pounding when we're gone. 173
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"...coming back from London. For some reason one can't settle to read, & yet writing seems the proper channel for the unsettled irritable condition one is generally in."
#Diaries of Virginia #Woolf 1918 Apr 8
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"But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction--what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain. ... What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?...to set free whatever is in the brain."
- Virginia Woolf, Oct. 1928 essay.
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"He glanced over the volumes of his library: Moby Dick, Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour, ... and a novel called Jacob's Room, and a paper volume whose title haunted him, A l'Ombre des Jeunes Filles en Fleurs." 66
P ii #ANote_2025 #Lehmann Love! #ProustTogether #Woolfpack #VirginiaWoolf #Melville
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Definitely picking up a copy of Mr Mendelson's wise book.
One of my favorites- by my desk at all times. If Woolf and Lehmann had a precocious child. #Woolfpack #Lehmann
"'It is very strange,' she thought, 'that the years teach us patience; that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.'" 118
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Interesting podcast
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"She would not say of any one in the world now that they were this or were that. She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife through everything; at the same time was outside, looking on." 11 #MrsDalloway 100th anniversary of publication 1925-2025 #Woolf #Woolfpack
"It sometimes occurs to me that there's not a single secret in politics; everything is to be guessed from the newspapers." 7 Dec 1917 #Woolf #Diaries Vol. I #Woolfpack
Just remembered that Thackeray's younger daughter Harriet (Minny) was the first wife of Leslie Stephen, father to Virginia Woolf. Minny died from eclampsia in her second pregnancy. Stephen then married Julia Duckworth, widow & friend & mother of Virginia. #Woolf #Woolfpack
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Latest episode was interesting!
We went to the Vanessa Bell exhibition at the Milton Keynes Gallery. Despite an unpromising approach with the air stinking of deep-fried fast food, once inside it was wonderful. Some of the Hogarth Press dust jackets. #WoolfPack
Rereading The Waves #woolfpack and I’m in a rapture and I want to remain in that state of grace but morning breaks, school ends, I want so badly to be one and not single!
first English translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies published by #HogarthPress 1931. Vita Sackville-West co-translator with cousin Eddy Sackville-West. #woolfpack @nemimeli.bsky.social
"He so lamented the death of Virginia Woolf that death might not have been all round him: he wrote wistfully of Mozart, as if music were his only deprivation." This detail endeared me to otherwise detached, stolid Mr Tillotson.
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came out in 1953, Woolf died in 1941. #WoolfPack
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