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Tag: Virginia Woolf

Rain & Moonlight: Weathering with Dorothy Wordsworth and Polly Atkin by Iona Glen

12th April 202213th April 2022  Iona Glen

Dorothy Wordsworth’s journals shine with moonlight and rain-washed landscapes, but did her later illness inhibit such vision? No, writes Iona Glen, who, when considering the poetry and criticism of Polly Atkin, sees Wordsworth’s creativity flourish in her periods of ill health.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Alice Hattrick, Bodies, Dorothy Wordsworth, Fitzcarraldo Editions, Ill Feelings, illness, Iona Glen, My Body's Bodies Editorial, nature writing, non-fiction, Polly Atkin, Seren Books, Susan Sontag, Virginia Woolf

Speaking from the Shadows: Writing Fiction and Chronic Illness

14th March 202214th March 2022  Katy Wimhurst

In her essay, author Katy Wimhurst explores how the experience of chronic illness challenges established (and often ableist) conventions of storytelling, opening up fiction – and indeed language itself – to new, imaginative possibilities.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Chronic Illness, Fiction, Franz Kafka, John Adair, Katy Wimhurst, Louise Kenward, Marie Mutsuki Mockett, My Body's Bodies Editorial, Rabih Alemeddine, Short Stories, Snapshots of the Apocalypse, Sol Worth, Susan Sontag, Through Navajo Eyes, Virginia Woolf

A Home of the Muses by Iona Glen

19th August 202125th August 2021  Iona Glen

Iona Glen reflects on Celia Paul’s memoir, Self Portrait, the significance of the British Museum and Bloomsbury to the artist’s work, and her subversive vanquishing of “muse-dom” and patriarchal conventions through painting.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, BooksTagged: Artist, British Museum, Celia Paul, Gwen John, Iona Glen, Lucian Freud, painting, Rachel Cusk, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, women artists, Zadie Smith

Interview with acclaimed author Francesca Wade: ‘You really get a sense, in these women’s letters and novels, of the exhilaration that having a place of their own brought about’

17th August 202117th August 2021  Lottie Whalen

Lottie Whalen talks to editor and author Francesca Wade about her prize-winning book, Square Haunting, the single women who sought to find a room of their own in Bloomsbury, her research and writing processes, and why the book resonates for women today.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Between the Acts, Bloomsbury, Dorothy Sayers, Eileen Power, Faber, Francesca Wade, H. D., housing, Jane Harrison, Square Haunting, Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf

Writing with: Hélène, Julia, and Virginia

18th January 202120th January 2021  Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie

In this creative, collagic essay, Kathryn Cutler-MacKenzie writes with and through the words of Virginia Woolf, Hélène Cixous and Julia Kristeva to convey the freedom of writing and kinship felt when reading their works.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Bodies, Disembodied Voices, Disembodied Voices: Friendship During the Pandemic, Feminism, Friends, friendship, Friendship During the Pandemic, Hélène Cixous, Julia Kristeva, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, Orlando, Psycho-analysis, The Laugh of The Medusa, The Waves, Virginia Woolf, writing

Lanny by Max Porter – an astonishing novel rich in folklore, myth and the idioms of the English language

3rd September 20195th September 2019  Victoria Smith

Victoria Smith is captivated by Lanny, Max Porter’s long listed Booker Prize novel about the disappearance of a little boy from an English village. Here, Smith reviews the novel against Porter’s 2015 debut, Grief is the Thing with Feathers.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Assia Wevill, Booker Prize longlist, Brexit, E. M. Forster, Enda Walsh, Environment, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Joan Aiken, Lanny, Man Booker Prize, Max Porter, Neil Gaiman, Simon Armitage, Ted Hughes, The Booker Prize 2019, Virginia Woolf

The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain at Tate Britain

16th June 201916th June 2019  Jo Hemmings

Tate’s latest exhibition, Van Gogh and Britain, reveals the extent to which the artist was inspired by British culture and in turn, influenced it. In her review, Jo Hemmings asks why we’re still captivated by Van Gogh and his work.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: At Eternity's Gate, Charles Dickens, London, Loving Vincent, painting, Starry Night, Sunflowers, Tate, Tate Britain, Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf

Reflections on ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired By Her Writings’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

11th December 20185th January 2019  Olivia Scott-Berry

Olivia Scott Berry questions curatorial decisions and a lack of intersectionality in the recent exhibition inspired by Virginia Woolf’s writings. In the words of poet Rebecca Wilcox, Berry asks ‘what about the transformational potential of discourse?’ when returning to the oeuvre of Woolf.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts Essays, BooksTagged: Fitzwilliam Museum, Laura Knight, Laura Smith, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Winifred Nicholson

Review of Modern Couples at the Barbican Art Gallery

10th December 201819th January 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Iconic partnerships and queer love are celebrated in the Barbican Art Gallery’s current exhibition, Modern Couples: Art, Intimacy and the Avant-garde.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, Camille Claudel, Claude Cahun, Dora Maar, Marcel Moore, Modern Couples, Pablo Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West
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