A Bucket of One’s Own

by Lucy

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 →

My Desert Island Book

by Lucy

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 →

Margery and Julian – the Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox of their day

by Lucy

I propose a new monopoly card — bookseller’s error in your favour, collect £2.78 and a free book! I say this as I ordered the first volume of Virginia’s Woolf’s diary from Amazon… Continue reading →

‘All Passion Spent’ but New Obsessions Found.

by Sarah

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 →

#Woolfalong: Virginia Woolf’s ‘Between The Acts’

by Sarah

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 →

Virginia’s on the radio!

by Lucy

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 →

#Woolfalong:’Ignorance is bliss, Mr Ramsey, Ignorance is bliss!

by Sarah

*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 →

#AW80Books: ‘Pointed Roofs’ by Dorothy Richardson

by Sarah

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 Don’t Need a Man

by Sarah

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 →

Well, where would you take Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf for a great day out?

by Sarah

A couple of weekends ago my daughter and I caught the early National Express coach from Swansea to London and went to the Women’s FA Cup Final at Wembley. Despite copious packed lunch… Continue reading →