A Bucket of One’s Own
One of my favourite books (essay really, but who cares) is Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own. It’s a nice blueprint for people who want a quiet life of reading, writing, wandering… Continue reading
I’ve been finding it hard to read. The news of impending redundancy has made me a jittery, C.V-redrafting, cake-seeking missile of worry. Full panic has yet to take over as I have lots… Continue reading
Reading one of Jane’s delightful A to Z blog posts at Beyond Eden Rock, I decided to explore the monthly ‘Author Reads’ in the Virago Modern Classics group on Library Thing. I wasn’t… Continue reading
When the #Woolfalong reading challenge hosted by Heavenali popped up on my radar I jumped at the chance to read or re-read a number of Virginia Woolf’s novels over the course of the… Continue reading
Well, Mrs Woolf was in 1937, as the wonders of Youtube (or ‘One’s tube’ as she’d have possibly called it) can now show us. I had never heard her voice before this, and… Continue reading
*I wrote this a while ago after reading Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse but never got round to posting it. Having re-read To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway very recently, I thought I’d skip those… Continue reading
I’m not sure whether it was Beyond Eden Rock or Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings that I first heard about the writer Dorothy Richardson and her series of thirteen novels collectively called Pilgrimage. Richardson was a contemporary of Virginia… Continue reading
I love that Virginia Woolf created Lily Briscoe as she did. Early on, we see her through Mrs Ramsey’s eyes With her little Chinese eyes and her puckered-up face she would never marry;… Continue reading