The film Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day, a playful, visually stunning adaptation of Woolf’s second novel, is now out in the U.S. for a limited run. You can enter a drawing to win a pair of ti…

Edward Mendelson had a need. While working on the text of To the Lighthouse, the Virginia Woolf scholar wanted to use a hard-copy facsimile of the first edition. And since he couldn’t find an…

Literature Cambridge has a new project: The Archive. A unique audio collection, it offers more than 25 hours of audio lectures recorded live online.

Today at the Literature Cambridge course on Virginia Woolf’s Gardens, we went To the Lighthouse. Not literally. But that was the focus of both the lecture by Trudi Tate and our small group tutorial…

Today is April 8, 2024, a much-hyped eclipse day where I live in Ohio. To view it, all I have to do is step outside my door and put on the cardboard glasses I picked up for free at my local library…

The view of Godrevy Lighthouse from Talland House in St. Ives, Cornwall, will soon disappear, but there is still a chance to see it at special events that are  part of the St. Ives September Festiv…

Oslo in June. Paris in July. And Virginia Woolf at both. Next year two international conferences focused on Virginia Woolf will be held in Europe. The first, the 36th Annual International Conferenc…

The film Night and Day based on Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel, is out in the UK, but not in the US. In anticipation of its release, the Woolf Salon invites you to three salons running from July…

Focusing on Virginia Woolf and the Blooomsbury Group

The Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP) and the archives of the Hogarth Press is looking for a Writer in Residence to start work this June in preparation for a major 2027 exhibition celebr…

For years, Virginia Woolf readers and scholars around the globe have fought against development plans that threatened the view of the Cornwall coast and Godrevy Lighthouse from Talland House in St.…

In mid-January, we reported on the most recent plan to construct a multi-million dollar flat project that would obstruct the view of the Cornwall coast and Godrevy Lighthouse from Talland House in …

Virginia Woolf scholars from Brazil invite participants from all over the world to submit a proposal to the open forum Virginia Woolf: Sound and Rhythm in Translation, in preparation for the 35th A…

A year or so ago, on the recommendation of a friend, I bought Sarah J. Sloat’s Hotel Almighty, a book of erasure poems born from Stephen King’s novel Misery. Each page bears not only Sloat’s erasur…

Naoise Dolan, Anne Griffin and Ailbhe Malone in conversation

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World will be the focus of this year’s Literature Cambridge summer course, which will be held twice — once online and once in person. The live online course wil…

It was Christmas 1933 and Ottoline Morrell gave Virginia Woolf an embroidered silk shawl as a gift. It still exists today as the only remaining piece of Woolf’s clothing, and the National Tru…

Virginia Woolf’s reception in South Korea will be the topic for the third session of the A Room of One’s Own Around the Globe seminar on Thursday, Jan. 22, at 4 p.m. CET on Zoom.

Developers are at it again. As in 2015, and 2003, they are planning a multi-million dollar flat project that would obstruct the view from Talland House in St. Ives, Cornwall, which was the setting …

One hundred years ago today, on Dec. 28, 1925, Virginia Woolf headed to London to join her husband Leonard after spending Christmas at Charleston. Except for 1925 and 1926, the Woolfs spent their C…

Today, the Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey presents a new talk in its Woolf Seminar series, featuring Jeanne Dubino on “Virginia Woolf’s Life and Writing: The Embodiment of Animal Studies.”…

Today is the 250th birthday of the celebrated British author Jane Austen, an author that Virginia Woolf held in great esteem, as evidenced by the fact that references to Austen are all over Woolf&#…

Here are just a handful of news bits about Virginia Woolf scholars. I know there are more. So if you have one, please add it as a comment below this post. Or send it to me by clicking on the email …

The upcoming Woolf Salon on Friday, Dec. 5, will celebrate The Common Reader at 100, Virginia’s book-length work of literary criticism collecting 20 essays which she introduces with a short p…

Two Virginia Woolf events will take place this week, one on Thursday, one on Friday, and both on Zoom. The first discusses the reception of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own in Brazil. The se…

Yesterday, survivors of Jeffrey Epstein, who were as young as age 14 when they were first sexually abused and trafficked, released a powerful PSA that featured their childhood photos. It made the n…

When I sat next to Ben Majchrowicz at the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, he showed me a treasure.

There are five days left to see a new play, “I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too,” which is playing through Nov. 9 at Barons Court Theatre in London.

If you’ll be in England this month, you have the opportunity to travel to Charleston for a special event with Mark Hussey and his new book, Mrs. Dalloway: Biography of a Novel. The details Wh…

“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…

In the 18 years that Blogging Woolf has been in existence, few things Woolfian have excited me more than writing a chapter about this blog for The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Transnat…

If you’ll be in England this month, you have the opportunity to travel to Charleston for a special event with Mark Hussey and his new book, Mrs. Dalloway: Biography of a Novel. The details Wh…

I had not thought much about Virginia Woolf and Simone deBeauvoir’s life writing until I decided to write a paper connecting their wartime diaries with those of writer Iris Origo.

he Life of Violet, edited by Urmila Seshagiri and just out today from Princeton University Press, is the newly discovered revised typescript of three early short stories by Virginia Woolf based on …

I don’t always watch the evening news, but when I do, I watch PBS Newshour. I watched yesterday, and I am glad I did. Why? Because they included a feature on The Life of Violet, edited by Urm…

“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…

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…

“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…

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.