tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50516335528026168792024-02-19T07:59:27.777-08:00Blooming WoolfElisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-68876581953343263882012-05-26T10:04:00.001-07:002012-05-26T10:05:17.334-07:00St. Ives: The Town<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlsDiFCwRAJzbUvmK0glvf3snGU76qTlxiWt7BjAsj05xSmiWTrG01HuwgqHuFsVN-TxWl_aLHf1gEi4FhW-7nun6sOAt3FKeMkFX7gwifIX6vtpf3P_ikl2DEY9er41gIdiSjtIgB1o/s1600/sistreet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVlsDiFCwRAJzbUvmK0glvf3snGU76qTlxiWt7BjAsj05xSmiWTrG01HuwgqHuFsVN-TxWl_aLHf1gEi4FhW-7nun6sOAt3FKeMkFX7gwifIX6vtpf3P_ikl2DEY9er41gIdiSjtIgB1o/s320/sistreet.jpg" width="240" /></a> Despite some fairly intense development, the center of St. Ives remains much the same: a warren of small steep streets overlooking several white beaches.<br />
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.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still an artist
colony, St. Ives is dotted with small galleries selling prints, paintings,
jewelry, glass products such as small stained glass sailboats and hand poured
glass tiles, and all manner of touristsy gew-gaws.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had so many encounters with so many dogs
of every conceivable size and species that the girls finally declared
themselves in “puppy overload.” Apparently lots of holidayers bring their
dogs to run on the beach. At any rate we met a lovely Burmese Mt
Dog—bigger I think than a Saint Bernard, ubiquitous terriers, a very polite
pair of airdales, the biggest bassett hound I’ve ever seen—maybe it was another
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Ives barely misses having a case of terminal cutes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are many small winding streets, leading
up hills so steep that some streets are simply staircases. Mostly white-washed
walls or grantite, often teal or royal blue trim, pots of flowers or succulents
so large they look like they are from another planet (imagine hens and chickens
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long street fronting the central beach called the wharf which curves around to
become a long pier stretching out into the water with a lighthouse at the
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View from SW side of Pier</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-72281521815187807392012-05-24T04:46:00.000-07:002012-05-26T09:49:20.620-07:00To the Lighthouse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>To the Lighthouse</b></div>
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At the Life Boat Station at the head of the wharf, we met
Derek and got our tickets for a 1:00 boat trip to the lighthouse. (about $20@) <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.stivesboats.co.uk/trips/" target="_blank">Saint Ives Boats</a></div>
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We had to walk down the old granite stairs and across a long pier built
across fields of barnacle and smail-encrusted rocks to get into a small boat,
which took us out to a larger boat. The six
of us went with three other women, including two Americans from San Diego who
run an international animal welfare association, one of whom was a Woolf
fan. We got right up close to the rocks, took dozens of pictures (I took
150 pictures today alone; multiply that by six and you get the idea…we think we
are going to end up with about 1000 pictures each for the whole trip) </div>
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fun. I’ve looked for pictures of Godrevy on-line, and have never seen any
as good as the ones we got. The
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impressive craggy, and you can see why so many ships wrecked off the reef they
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by. There were rows of cormorants on the
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Circling back by
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eaves of several giant alpine chalet roofs which block its view even more effectively
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Lovely trip down, green fields flashing by—some patch work of bright yellow
rape seed. As we get closer to Cornwall, the white lace hedges and clumps of
May (Hawthorn) begin to give way to stands of purple rhododendrons, scotch
broom still bronze in bud, and the occasional palmetto. <br />
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But nothing compared
to arrival at St. Ives from St. Erth.
Sudden vista of endless white sands, turquoise blue waters, with Godrevy
lighthouse out in the center.<br />
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Hired a cab at the train station to take me and all six bags
(suddenly very huge and heavy) up the stair-step steep climb to the top of the
hill where our <a href="http://www.theholliesstives.com/" target="_blank">B&B, The Hollies, on Talland Rd.</a> turns out to be only three
houses down from Talland House itself.
Checked in to general pleasure with small but tidy, pretty rooms and big
view out sitting room window to the Lighthouse itself. Bev Trood, the owner,
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After brief reconnoiter to Talland House (now much hemmed in
by new cottages built in the car park and general crowding all around), we went
down down down the steeple cobblestone
lanes to the center of town (maybe 5 short blocks away—everything much smaller
and closer than I’d remembered). Window-shopped our way down to the waterfront
where we comparison-shopped for a pub with wide menus. Stopped at The Lifeboat Inn where I had something called Rattlesnake Cornish Cider (quite a
bite). Spent another couple of hours
wandering around the town harbor, wharf, and Smeaton’s Pier before climbing the
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Got up and went for lovely breakfast downstairs, including
gluten free toast for me. They switched
Internet providers yesterday and girls are very happy with great
connection. They want to move in as Ian
and Bev are quite lovely, and the place feels very homey. I just booked 1:00 trip to the lighthouse,
and now we are going back to Talland House.
After the lighthouse trip, we are going to the St. Ives Museum, but rest
of day is open for wandering, absorbing atmosphere, taking pictures, and
shopping. I may try to squeeze in trip
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Went up the street to take a closer look round Talland
House. I warned the girls we might not
be able to see much of the garden b/c I didn’t want to be intrusive and bother
the tenants. But just as we arrived, a
man in gardening gloves and a trowel walked out, introduced himself as the
gardener, and invited us in. Trip karma
once again. We’ve been so lucky and so
blessed with generous people. So in we
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What is left of the garden is
beautifully cared for: the top terrace, the oval below, the flat side garden with
the trickling waterfall in the corner and the stream leading down along the
side to the gate onto Albert Rd below. Things have been trimmed and planted and
shaped, though one suspects this more tended appearance takes the garden even
further from the original.<br />
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The
escolonia hedge is still there, but interplanted with laurel and something
else that I think may be honeysuckle.
The big stand of calla lilies by the corner fountain (heaven knows if
they were there in Virginia’s day) has been replaced by clumps of psuedocoreus
(yellow flags, quite a favorite of Leonard’s). The large urns have disappeared from the piers
by the windows on the lower floors, which judging from furniture placement, no
longer function as doors into the garden.
The bright-eyed purple African daises no longer grace the top of the
oval, though we ran across quite a stand of them a little down the road, and
although there are no red-hot pokers, there is a large pampas grass down by the
gate The gate itself has been wired shut and is increasingly fully covered by a
hedge, though Woolfies wanting to recreate the 1906 visit of the Stephen children
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The real changes, however, have to do with the crushing
amount of development crowding round the house.
Only a small stretch of the garden walls that supported the green houses
is left. The whole of the old car park
(what used to be the orchard) is completely taken up by very modern, white and
glass- brick holiday houses. The whole
bottom half of the garden has disappeared, sacrificed for a new wall and access
road up to the holiday houses. Below the
road, an area which used to be a continuation of the garden, where only half a
dozen years ago I took a photo of two stands of red-hot pokers framing the view
to the lighthouse, has become a construction pit. Real estate prices are
apparently booming in St. Ives, and every square inch has become potential
investment property. So not only the
garden, but also the view, and more subtley the whole feeling of graciousness
which used to characterize Talland House has been severely curtailed.<br />
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Ah, last night in my lovely attic London room – made
delightful by what looks to be an entire evening of coverage of the Chelsea
Flower Show on a satellite channel I managed to locate. We got back from
Cambridge about an hour ago, and I’ve already managed to pack everything but
electronics and other sundries, aided by having sent two small but
expensive boxes home this morning as we passed through King’s Cross. The
station has been totally renovated, transformed from a dirty, confusing,
broken-down mess (with frighteningly old and fire-prone wooden escalators) to a clean efficient, generous space, crisscrossed with a
tracery of white girders that let in lots of bright, diffused
light. They’ve kept bits and pieces of the original brick work,
including the old platform 9 and ¾’s, now complete with half a baggage trolley
stuck in it, providing a useful photo op.<br />
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wonderful. Started off with a delay on the line, which allowed for
a coffee stop which should have picked the girls up, but once we got on the
train, they all plugged into i-Phones and fell asleep. The May is fully
out now and long hedges of it flash by on the train broken by the occasional
stand of river birches -- a nice alternation of design elements.<br />
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Once we got to the station, I provided a bit of excitement,
having left my wallet—with ALL the credit cards, my ID, and the train tickets
for St. Ives – on my seat in the train. However, some lovely person
turned it into the lost property office before I’d had more than about 5
minutes of utter panic. I’ve now secreted credit cards in several
different places, so if I lose my mind again, we won’t be totally
destitute. I have to say our interactions with Brits have been
uniformly lovely. They seem geared up to be extra helpful—though I cannot
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Because it is exam season, we were restricted as to what we
could see of Cambridge. All of the girls were feeling as if they were
sickening for something and all were annoyed by the continued cold. We
boarded the Big Bus—again the ticket agent gave us a huge discount: both
student and group rate—which not only provides an informative tour of the town,
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Midway through the tour we got off to find Newnham College,
the “Fernham” of A Room of One’s Own and also the location where Woolf
delivered the lecture version that preceded the book. Crossing the river
Cam on Silver St. I spied a pub, The Anchor, and proposed we first have
lunch. The pub proved to be warm, the food good, and the local apple
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From there we walked up Silver St to Newman college.
After walking halfway round, I began to fear that, like Woolf, we had missed
the turning, but we were assisted by two Newnham girls -- anthropology majors
-- who let us into a dorm then took us through to the main quad and
directed us to the tall towered entrance I remembered. Indeed, we had
missed the turning and needlessly circumnavigated half the grounds. But,
technically the college was not really open, so our detour gained us entrée.
The grounds were lovely: billowing beds of purple allium and yellow wall
flowers.<br />
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From Newnham we made our way across the Backs--another
long way round as several of the entrances were closed to visitors.
However, managed to get in to see Kings College Chapel, which was wildly
impressive. Especially the ceiling. After a brief stop to buy
sweat shirts—the girls have given up all hope that it will ever get warm here--
we walked back up Trinity St. to re- catch the Big Bus on its route and finish
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On the way we were able to duck into Trinity, and visit
the great court and the chapel , so full of plaques and statues. Found some old
friends on the wall: A.E. Houseman, Frazer of the Golden Bough, Cornford the
great ritualist. The porters were particularly pleasant---not at all
foreboding.<br />
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<br /></div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-19997206672907662862012-05-20T13:44:00.003-07:002012-05-26T18:25:34.561-07:00Day 9—Free Day in London<br />
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organizing pictures, writing blogs, sorting receipts. About 11:30 took tube down to Temple to
explore Fleet Street and environs, particularly Clifford’s Inn, where Leonard and
Virginia lived from October 1912-Dec 1913.
I knew that much of it had been destroyed (it was torn down in 1934) but
wanted to see what remained. Had thought
Sunday would be a good day to explore the City since it wouldn’t be busy, but
had not realized they locked it up tight on the weekend – couldn’t even walk
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Inn, the door was locked. But I
persevered and went poking around until I found a way in through a gate to King’s
College. The college buildings are on
the north side with St. Dunstan’s Church on the west, and office buildings on the
other two sides. What remains of the
garden/ green is a much divided patch of hedges and unmown grass with scattered
benches, obviously used mostly by the students who’d left behind scattered detritus
of cigarettes lighters and plastic cups.
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type-high printer’s ornaments, jewelry, cheap scarves, bendable fairies dressed
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browsing, until I started getting tired and hungry. So I settled down at one of
the many sidewalk cafes scattered about and ordered a warm Pims with apple
juice—quite the tonic for a damp cold day (I listened to the weather report and
was only wearing a sweater; they keep promising warmer weather…) and a plate of
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After this late and relaxing lunch, listening to a guy wi
dreds playing blues on his electric guitar on the plaza, I found I’d satiated
my desire to shop and made my way back home on the tube, easily switching lines
to get the shortest route home, avoiding the lines closed for maintenance and
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Took my clothes over to the launderette, only to discover it
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Lovely day today, after a rather slow start. Paddington
rather crazy—after criss-crossing the station three times in search of
an ATM that wasn’t out of money, finally found one that would dispense 50 pds,
but no more. We spent an extra hour or
so getting to Richmond because of delays on the Circle Line. One of the girls figured out we could take
the Hammersmith Line out west and connect at the end of that line to the line
that ran south to Richmond. So we did. Serious
worries about how they are going to handle the Olympics if they can’t do a busy
Saturday morning. And sympathy for why
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When we got to Richmond we went immediately up a series of
twisty little lanes until we got to Hogarth House, Leonard and Virginia’s “London”
home 1915-1924, where they founded the Hogarth Press and began their printing
ventures. The new tenants have nurtured
a wandering wisteria vine, trained to circle the blue plaque commemorating the
Woolfs’ residency which certainly softens the rather stern façade of the building.<br />
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Then we navigated our way over to No. 17 The Green, the house where they first
lived in Richmond, from Oct 1914- March 1915.
About all that Virginia has written about this house are memories of
huddling in the basement with the servants at night, during the aerial bombardment
at the end of WWI. There were guns at
Kew which they could hear firing as well.
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We ducked into Brewer’s Lane, a tiny lane or twitten just a
few houses down from no. 17 in order to get back to the center of town, and found
ourselves in a little shopping alley already festooned with banners for the Jubilee.
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they were dying to explore, so I declared a 15-minute power-shopping break.
Loaded with a few extra bags we rode about a mile and a half down to the Lion’s
Gate, the SW entrance to the park and the place where Woolf would typically
have entered. This is right near the
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Lily Pond. I managed to sneak in a few
minutes at the Marianne North Museum—utterly amazing array of YEARS of
botanical painting all over the world.
The word “redoubtable” was invented for women like her; she travelled
alone to Sumatra, Brazil, India, Australia, Java, Ceylon, always painting the
rarest native species she could find.
When she came back she willed all her paintings to Kew and built a small
museum to hold them. They are hung next to
each other like mosaic tiles, literally hundreds on each wall. Astonishing.
I made friends with a woman who was standing there with her mouth open
when I walked in. We instantly bonded on
the basis of sheer amazement.<br />
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Finally we all met up at the Palm house—so full of hot steam
my glasses became completely opaque when entering—an admired the “oval-shaped
flower beds” outside that are the site of Woollf’s short story, “Kew Gardens.” I also made everyone visit the Victorian
Water Lily House, with its giant lilies five feet across upon which they used
to stand small children—back in the days before child endangerment laws.<br />
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And now everyone is tucked in, working on their blogs and
relishing the idea of sleeping in late tomorrow. The girls have an assignment to visit
Tavistock Sq and take pictures, but otherwise are free. I think everyone is planning to shop. They’ve been very restrained so far, but
TopShop is calling.</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-81629487372083549042012-05-19T14:36:00.002-07:002012-05-19T14:36:34.225-07:00Day 7-- Hampton CourtElisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-65486518149571200672012-05-19T14:35:00.003-07:002012-05-20T14:20:01.267-07:00Day 6-- Art and Cecil and Jean<br />
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Today was to be a free day in London, capped by dinner with
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After a bit of a lie-in, three of the girls and I went down
to the Tate Britain to see the exhibition,.<a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/picasso-modern-british-art?gclid=CLWb5IOzjbACFWwntAodhXNDog" target="_blank">Picasso and British Modernism</a> Which was pretty interesting. There was a whole room of Duncan Grants, a
good selection of Wydham Lewis, and the rest of the show provided a nice
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The girls went on to tour the Globe, while I went over to
Somerset House to visit the Courtauld and the wonderful collection of
post-Impressionists: several Van Goghs, a couple of stupendous Gauguins, what
seemed like dozens of Cezannes,<br />
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some Degas, a few gorgeous Manets and Renoirs… really
the most concentrated selection of great art I’ve ever seen in one small space. The German Expressionist room was full of old
friends, and a new artist, Marianne Werefkin, who I’ve not heard of but whose
one work looks a bit like Emily Carr.</div>
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There is also a British? artist Kees van Dongen, who I’d like to know
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Downstairs there was an
exhibition of new rugs made from Omega Workshop designs by Vanessa Bell and
Duncan Grant. Great to see them made up
in appropriate size and color.<br />
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Went home and changed clothes and gathered girls together to
take the tube north to Chalk Farm in Primrose Hill where we met Cecil and Jean
at a very popular local Greek restaurant.
Dinner was a hilarious three and a half hour affair; I think the eight
of us went through five bottles of wine.
We ordered the assorted menu, which meant course after course of
appetizers. Then came plate after plate of meats. And all through Jean and Cecil at opposite ends of the table were holding court.<br />
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had several very good suggestions for archives I can go to for historical
pictures of places in London before WWII. As the evening evolved, it
became more and more apparent that a trip back at Xmas would enable me to do a
bunch of helpful research for the book. The girls want to come too, but I
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Cecil told lots of the
usual stories about living with Leonard, but a few new ones about taking tea
and milk into Virginia in her room and seeing the floor littered with pieces of
paper with words written on them. Girls pumped him about the publishing
business and felt they learned a good deal about the trials of being a small
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Hugs and hugs all around, and girls given
official permission to call on them anytime they are in London. Not sure
their feet touched the ground on the way back to the tube—though they were
certainly down to earth dealing with the late scatter of drunken students.</div>
</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-7833993912124592752012-05-19T14:33:00.001-07:002012-05-20T14:16:48.738-07:00Day 5 -- Sussex: Monk’s and Charleston<br />
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Got up fairly early to catch the train at Victoria for
Lewes. Arrived around 10:30 and took two cabs down to the tiny hamlet of Rodmell,
where we strolled down The Street to Monk’s House, admiring the wisteria. Walked up the little lane to the church and
church school and cut through the graveyard to peer over the walls into the
back of the garden. Thinks looking quite
cleared out; someone was turning soil in the vegetable garden, lawn chairs were
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gardeners who took our pictures looking north toward Firle BeaconI noticed that the scarred area where the cement plant used
to be on the site of the Woolf’s country home at Asham was beginning to heal
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that led out from the back gate of the garden at Monk’s, which turned into a
broad grassy set of tire tracks, but became increasingly more narrow. We tromped through the water meadows,
admiring the shaggy ponies across the road we should have taken, separated from
us by a culvert too wide and deep to jump.
In true Virginia fashion, I tripped in a very large hole and fell down
into the grasses, about 18 inches high—enough to give the girls a scare when I
suddenly disappeared from sight. But the bog was both soft and relatively dry,
so no harm done. The things I am willing
to do for verisimilitude. Eventually we
came to some narrow brick piers, which hop scotched us across another culvert
to a locked gate leading back to the public footpath. Here we struck up a
conversation with a rider on a horse, who advised us the climb the gate..
.which we all did, including me. I hear
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a group of environmental engineers, self defined as “river-men” who were
replacing the old wooden fences and gates on the footpath that runs along the
top of the bank. The tide was nearly
full out, so about fifteen feet of muddy, salt-smelling bank was exposed. The
river-men were full of information, explaining that the cement works had been
closed down and pointing out the new methane plant across the river which is
producing a good deal of electrical power for the surrounding country. When I remarked that I wished we were doing
more such energy reclamation in the US, we were treated to a lecture of the
methane recycling at the BMW plant at Spartenberg – have to come to UK to find
out what is going out at home.</div>
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Walked back to Monk’s by the proper road – the whole circle
was about 3 miles, we reckoned. When we
arrived we discovered that the old tenants, the Zoobs, had moved on and that
the National Trust had taken over operations.
Monk’s is now open seven days a week (I think), and there are many
beneficial changes, some made possible by more staff. For one thing, you are now allowed to take
photos throughout the whole property, not just in the garden. There are also quite a few more pictures on
the walls and some other artifacts that have been recovered; the box of bowls,
an arrangement of British butterflies and moths rescued form the attic, and
Virginia’s own set of Shakespeare’s works, rebounded and recovered by her.<br />
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The garden at Monk’s has also been thoroughly cleaned
up—lots of brush has been cut away, so the view across the water meadows to Mr.
Caburn is now clear, and the lawn around the dew pond where they used to play
bowls has been mowed and one suspects rolled into a condition recalling
Leonard’s careful grooming. The garden
was in early spring bloom: Wisteria and, early clematis covering walls and
trees, purple tulips blown out by the recent rains, bluebells and
forget-me-nots peeking out, apple trees blooming in the orchard.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dew Pond and Terrace Lawn at Monk's House</td></tr>
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By 2:30 we were all starving, so went up to the
Aberveganny Arms where the girls had
huge platters of fish and chips—the fresh fish speared a top a mountain of
frech fries. They samples the local
beers, whicle I was appy with bangers and mash.</div>
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We called the cabs back and they took us over to Charleston
(Taking the local buses would have saved money but takes SOOO long—several
hours instead of ten minutes as they stop at practically every house—that we
wouldn’t have been able to do both houses in one day)where we got our own
private tour of the house. The girls
were enchanted by the house, every inch of which was painted by Duncan and
Vanessa. We didn’t have enough time to really do the garden before the cabs
were back to take us to the train stations.
Arrived home about 8:00 PM, tired but full of information and images.</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-76124411185136892562012-05-19T14:31:00.000-07:002012-05-19T14:31:10.376-07:00Day 4-- Bloomsbury<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Day 4—Tuesday, May 15, 2012</div>
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A Such a typical London day: first it was pouring down so
hard I had to buy an umbrella at the British Museum; then the sun came out and
it was so hot we were shedding layers like a bunch of hyper-active snakes,
puddles of clothing accumulating around our feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then it turned nasty again, this time with a
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</span>But the big highlight of our Bloomsbury Day was spending an hour or so
at Tony Bradshaw’s apartment near the British Museum looking at original art by
Dora Carrington, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell—several paintings, oil
sketches, and a number of wood and linoleum cuts. Several people feel rather in
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Went to British Museum where we were disappointed to find
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being used as an exhibition space during the Olympics and then being totally remodeled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Had lunch and then sent the girls to the
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</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-32552265097952138442012-05-19T14:29:00.000-07:002012-05-19T14:29:23.208-07:00Day 3-- Dalloway Walk<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Day 3—Monday, MAY 14, 2012</div>
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Another profitable but exhausting day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We began a wet, chilly morning at Westminster
Abbey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The line to get in what so long
we collectively decided not to go inside and instead walked through Dean’s Yard
to begin our Dalloway walk .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>School was
in session and the yard was full of British boys of varying ages, playing
soccer in white shirts, ties, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
trousers; older boys strolled by discussing exams—a brief aural whiff of
Hogwarts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We crossed the yard and plunged
into the windy back streets of Westminster, picking which houses we would
nominate as Clarissa’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Crossing Victoria
Street by the new Scotland Yard, we noticed a statue commemorating Henry Purcell,
a woman with flowers exploding out of her head, which looked like it had been
placed there to commemorate Mrs. Dalloway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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A few blocks later a Starbucks appeared, providing a more
modern opportunity for some caffeine and warmth to fully wake everyone up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And a chance to check e-mail.</div>
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We continued on across St. James Park, noticing large clumps
of tourists—all in yellow baseball caps etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Making our way across the bridge, our view of Buckingham Palace was
obscured by a huge scaffolding going up to hold spectators for the
Jubilee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Head towards Piccadilly, we
wound about until we ended up walking along the edge of Green park (Richard’s
walk).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At this point we heard martial
music and realized they were changing the guard at Buckingham Palace—which
explained why there had been so many groups in the park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One student began taking video, interviewing
us about various sites.</div>
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Turning into Old Bond Street, we were overwhelmed by the
atmosphere of serious money. Two Chanel stores in one block. Diamonds
everywhere (my favorite was a tiny pink diamond pig with a black mask).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We took plenty of pictures, planning a
bewildering collage of images to fit into a video reproduction of Mrs.
Dalloway‘s Walk.</div>
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Arriving at Oxford Street, we found the tide of people in
full surge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our student guide for the
day, Caroline, had found a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>perfect lunch
spot—an Italian restaurant a block off the main street which had reasonable
prices and even served gluten free pasta.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After lunch we broke briefly for shopping—I headed towards Liberty and
the girls went for H&M and Topshop.</div>
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We met back at Oxford Circus and took the tube up to
Regent’s Park.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After becoming totally
disoriented, going south rather than north and circling one restricted-entry
garden, we finally righted ourselves and strolled into the Avenue gardens where
the girls went a little crazy photographing flowers while I explained about
Gertrude Jeykll’s color theories for garden design.</div>
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We next caught a bus to the British Library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally we had intended to only spend an
hour and take a run down to some paper stores near Tottenham Court Rd., but we
found a big new exhibition on “Writing Britain” about authors’<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>relationship to the landscape of UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that is what the whole Woolf sequence
is about,we decided it was a must-see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had asked students to read “Street Haunting” the night before, and when they
discovered that part of the exhibition was titled after Woolf’s essay and
contained a (fine arts printed) copy of it,they were delighted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told them that as English majors the BL was
like their church. And indeed they became totally enthralled with seeing the
actual handwriting of everyone from Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte to Woolf
and Joyce, and finally, J.K. Rowling!</div>
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PIC </div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-21003154101096027152012-05-19T14:13:00.005-07:002012-05-26T18:24:46.883-07:00Houses and Parks<br />
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Day 2—Sunday, MAY 13, 2012</div>
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Started the morning off with a walk through Kensington
Gardens. Since it was a bright Sunday
morning, the park was thronged with Londoners out to get a bit of sun. It was also “dogs on parade” with dozens of
animals galloping around, and lots of toddlers staggering with delighted
ambition, across huge fields of unmowed green grass. Strolled over to Round Pond, where we were
delighted to see several small sailboats blown by the wind or radio operated.
Families wi kids were clustered around groups of hungry swans. Everyone set a
spell in the sling chairs by the pond, until someone came up and tried to
collect money. Wound our way down the
Flower Path, under the weeping birch to the great read lace façade of Queen’s
Gate, just a block from Hyde Park Gate.</div>
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Walked down the short culvert to No. 22—Virginia’s home from
her birth in 1882 until her father’s death and the move to Bloomsbury in1904. Unfortunately
the tall white house was under scaffolding to refurbish the stucco covering the
grey-brown brick, so not really suitable for taking pictures. Meditated on how
crowded it would have been with all those people in that comparatively small
house and how little privacy Woolf would have had Had forgotten that Winston Churchill’s house
was across the street, or at least the house in which he died. </div>
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Then we hiked down to the V&A, where we had a large
nourishing lunch in the sumptuous rooms. Designed by William Morris, Gamble and Edward Poynter , I
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right bus to take us down to Chelsea, and walked through a series of winding back
streets to Carlyle’s house. Since we
hadn’t been able to get into 22 Hyde Park Gate, Carlyle’s House offered a good
substitute vision of what a typical Victorian interior looked like, aside from
the intrinsic interest in the Carlyle themselves and Woolf’s fascination with
them, with its front parlor, tiny bedrooms, totally plumbing-less bathroom, and
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gardens (students are surprised at how much botany and art history they are
being taught along with Virginia Woolf) and had a lovely tea. <br />
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All glad to get home early, but then a visit to discus
tomorrow’s itinerary turned into long talk and it was suddenly 9:30 and everyone
needed to go down to the lobby to post logs, check e-mails etc.</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-81220988482914907902012-05-19T13:53:00.003-07:002012-05-19T14:15:13.622-07:00Arrival in London<br />
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Arrived in good spirits.
Plane trip seemed rather a breeze, not the ordeal I remembered. Enjoyed talking to my seat-mate, a law
professor from Tulane (Jean…) with a passion for Shakespeare and a tidy fund of
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Gatwick not at all crowed—the usual endless walk down
cavernous, sloping corridors, but no lines at immigration and customs a
walk-through. Emerging into baggage claim we were met with a gloriously sunny
day, almost too bright to bear.
Spectacular. Loaded into train
for Victoria and we were off. Seems
rather an in-between time florally: Wisteria fading (or maybe just coming in),
May also just beginning to show, a panicle or two of laburnum dangling in a
suburban back yard, and once we were swirling through London traffic, spear s of
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piloted by a gruff but twinkly cockney who wedged the last couple of bags into
the boot at the back and urged us to watch them to make sure they didn’t fall
out as we dove into the sea of London traffic with one purple and one red
suitcase popping out like bright canvas boils.
Hilarious trip; he told the girls they had brought the sun from South Carolina--
first they’d seen in six weeks. They all
wanted to adopt him as their grandfather.<br />
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Hotel centrally located just off the Italian Fountains at
the north edge of Kensington Gardens. We walked in and the desk was waiting for
us. (Three Kandinsky’s plus two O’Keeffe’s in the lobby—including my favorite,
the tiny Dark Iris. I take it as a sign of good karma). Brief delay in getting
to girls’ room left us time to crowd into the lounge (only place where there is
wi fi) to e-mail everyone’s parents to say we’d arrived. Hotel rooms palatially big for London. All are at the top of the building, 5<sup>th</sup>
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The empty floor space in my room is as big as
some rooms I’ve stayed in. Very large,
new TV sets and an acceptable ranger of channels too. Our main problem is lack of wireless. It’s a pain constantly having to drag laptops
down to the lobby. Turns out my iPhone
–not being the latest model—won’t/can’t do International data, even if I wanted to pay for it. Sale person should have tried to talk me into
a new one. Fortunately we have one
student on her dad’s corporate account, so she has unlimited international
data; she’s a wiz too—has figured out how to use google maps to tell us which
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to stock some groceries, and took a couple of hours for everyone to shower and
unpack. After a bit of settling in, we
got together and went to catch the Big Bus tour, which took us ALL around
London for what turned out to be nearly 4 hours, By this time, lack of sleep was getting to
everyone. I don’t know about the girls,
but I crashed and wound up sleeping twelve hours—from 7:30 to 7:30.</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-87720798474949083802012-04-23T15:57:00.000-07:002012-04-23T15:57:29.788-07:002012. Woolf TripOn May 11, 2012 I will be leaving for a two-week trip to England with five students to take photographs of as many places as Possible which appear in Woolf's works and are of importance in her life. Eventually these will be incorporated into a digital guide for place in Woolf's life and work, which will be published as a cross-platform app. Stay tuned for blog updates on the road.Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-13381102144777563692010-08-27T18:23:00.000-07:002010-08-27T18:23:43.484-07:00Reading and Discussion Questions for Woolf's Early Short Stories<strong>“MODERN FICTION”</strong><br />
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• You may want to start out by reading Woolf’s manifesto for the new form of writing she is trying to invent: “Modern Fiction.” Slightly revised from an essay called “Modern Novels” published in 1919 -- around the time she was writing “Mark on the Wall” (1917) and “Kew Gardens” (1919) -- this is Woolf’s best known and most often-quoted essay. You want to look for what she is attacking in the previous generation of writers and what she wants to see in the new writing. (make lists)<br />
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• Then think about how “Mark” and “Kew” embody these ideas.<br />
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• Jane Goldman has a brief section on “Modern Fiction” in her book (103-6), and Mark Hussey has a page-long entry on it in his A to Z (on reserve).<br />
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• As you read the short stories, be thinking about “A Sketch of the Past.” What structures/ ways of writing do these works have in common? Can you begin to articulate a sense of Woolf’s characteristic style? How does she think? And how is that revealed in the way she organizes or structures her stories? Also be alert for common themes and images. Twenty+ years separate these short stories from her memoir. Are there issues which she seems to be concerned with across that arc of time?<br />
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• There are several overviews about the short stories available: <br />
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o Goldman, Cambridge Intro, pp. 87-92 (R) REQUIRED<br />
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o Sandra Kemp’s Introduction to the selected short stories for Penguin (BB)<br />
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o Baldwin, Dean. “Bold Experiments” 13-26 in Virginia Woolf: A Study of the Short Fiction (1989) (BB)<br />
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o I personally favor A. Fleishman’s “Forms of the Woolfian Short Story” (1980) which posits 2 different forms for the stories: linear and circular (though we can argue quite a bit over which stories are which). (BB)<br />
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o Dick, Susan."Chasms in the Continuity of Our Way: Jacob's Room."Chapter Two of Virginia Woolf. London & New York: Edward Arnold, 1989. (R) Connects the early short stories up to the method and themes of Jacob’s Room.<br />
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“<strong>A MARK ON THE WALL”</strong><br />
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• On first reading, this story appears to be quite random and chaotic. Just read it a couple of times, letting the images sink in. Then I would advise going through and trying to make your own outline of what each paragraph is about. <br />
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• Can you see any turning points in the story? Can you clump any paragraphs into groups? <br />
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• What seem to be the repeated images and concerns? ( Repetition is the key to meaning)<br />
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• What is the story “about”? <br />
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• Use the same reading process with “Kew.” Notice the various characters in the story and how the narration/ point of view shifts among them. Is there any pattern here?<br />
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• I will be posting some materials on Woolf and the Visual Arts on the Criticism Folder on Blackboard. Many people see these experimental short stories as Woolf’s reaction to the new theories about modern art that she was discussing with the circle of artists and art critics to which her sister, Vanessa Bell belonged. Both Clive Bell and Roger Fry were important definers and what the new modern art was about, and in many ways what Woolf is trying to do is find a way to adapt these ideas to fiction.<br />
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<li> <b>Plot</b> – What is the structure of this piece? Is there any?</li>
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<li style="margin-left: 40px;"> How does Woolf see character and the possibility of knowing character? How does she describe others?</li>
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<li style="margin-left: 40px;">How does Woolf present herself as a character? What are some of the characteristics of the autobiographical narrator? <br /><br />
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Briggs, Julia . Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. London: Penguin[Allen Lane] 2005.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z54359 2005 <br />
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Caramagno, Thomas. The Flight of the Mind: Virginia Woolf's Art and Manic-Depressive Illness (1992)<br />
PR6045.O72 Z566 1992 <br />
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Dick, Susan. Virginia Woolf. Routledge, 1989.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z617 1989 <br />
The complete shorter fiction of Virginia Woolf / edited by Susan Dick.<br />
PR6045.O72 A6 1989 <br />
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Fleishman, Avorm. Virginia Woolf: A Critical reading. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1975.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z63 1975 <br />
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Gillespie, Diane F. The Sisters' Arts : The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z644 1991 <br />
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Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf. Cambridge UP, 2006.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z647 2006<br />
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PR6045.O72 Z648 1998<br />
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Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A To Z : A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers To Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z729 1995 <br />
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Lee, Hermione. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z774 1998 <br />
---. Virginia Woof. <br />
PR6045.O72 Z774 1998 <br />
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Moore, Madeline. The Short Season Between Two Silences: The Mystical and the Political in the Novels of Virginia Woolf. Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984.<br />
PR6045.O72 Z822 1984 <br />
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Reed, Christopher. Bloomsbury Rooms : Modernism, Subculture, and Domesticity<br />
NX543 .R44 2004 <br />
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Zwerdling, Alex. Virginia Woolf and the Real World. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1986.Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-13982695695328066532010-08-21T13:47:00.000-07:002010-08-21T13:50:52.660-07:00Reflections on Our First Day/ Reading RecommendationsIt was great to meet you all and get a bit of a sense of who you are. I am making a class directory which I will post on Blackboard under CLASS MATERIALS, making it easy for you to contact each other. Once you get yr blog up, I will sign on as a follower; that way I will be notified automatically whenever you put up a new entry. You might want to follow my blog as well.<br />
I’ve also compiled and sent in a very modest Reserve List for the class. (See below and on BB) Many of these books are explained in fuller detail in my previous entry. From what you said about your interests in class, I have some recommendations:<br />
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If you are interested in Woolf’s <b>LIFE</b>, I suggest first, Hermione Lee’s biography and second, Caramagno’s book, as I think it has the most balanced assessment of how her mental/ emotional states affected her work. I have been re-reading him and find his interpretations of her work consistently insightful and also often a helpful corrective to far-fetched Freudian interpretations. Quentin Bell’s classic biography has the merit of being written by someone who actually knew her –he was her nephew— but also the accompanying flaws of being written by someone who didn’t take her feminism or lesbianism or political beliefs seriously, and as a member of the family, was at pains to deny the existence of sexual abuse in her childhood.<br />
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For those of you interested in Woolf’s <b>WRITING PROCESS</b>, I highly recommend Julia Briggs’s book –you may want to buy it in paperback. It is an intellectual biography of the process of writing Woolf’s major texts. Of course Woolf' diaries are the best way of getting to know her life and work, but I suspect that at 5 vols. this is more than you want to take on during one semester. Leaska has some well chosen selections from the diaries in <i>The Virginia Woolf Reader</i>. And Leonard compiled a selection of passages particularly concerned with her writing into the book, <i>A Writer’s Diary</i>, available on Amazon.com for $5.95 plus shipping. <br />
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Zwerdling’s book is extremely helpful for <b>HISTORICAL BACKGROUND</b>. And Jane Goldman’s book on Woolf’s feminist aesthetics is very helpful for anyone interested in<b> MODERNISM AND THE VISUAL ARTS</b>. On this topic, see also, Chris Reed’s brilliant study of the politics of interior decoration styles in <i>Bloomsbury Rooms</i>. I assign his first chapter as the introductory reading assignment in my Modernist London Seminar because it so clearly lays out the battle lines btw what he calls the “domestic” aesthetic of Bloomsbury, and the “heroic”/ somewhat fascist brand of Modernism favored by Eliot, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis. And the locus classicus for all work on Woolf and the visual arts is Diane Gillespie’s book, <i>The Sisters’ Art</i>s, which explores Virginia’s relation to her sister Vanessa’s painting and Vanessa’s reactions to her sister Virginia’s writing.<br />
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For those of you interested in <b>WOOLF AND FILM</b>, I recommend that you do an MLA search for the work of Leslie Hankins, who has for many years been building up a careful and detailed study of Woolf’s exposure and reaction to modern British cinema, as well as Laura Marcus’s book, <i>The Tenth Muse</i> and Maggie Humm’s<i> Modernist Women and Visual Cultures.</i>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-32454789175420584562010-07-05T16:49:00.001-07:002010-07-06T15:24:24.996-07:00Summertime and the Reading is Easy<link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Csparks%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Csparks%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx" rel="themeData"></link><link href="file:///C:%5CUsers%5Csparks%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml" rel="colorSchemeMapping"></link><style>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b>Partially in preparation for my Woolf Seminar and partly as deep background for the flower book, I am currently reading/re-reading eight books on Virginia Woolf’s novels. I am reading them piecemeal, in chronological order: Intros, sections on <i>The Voyage Out</i>, then sections on <i>Night & Day</i> etc. It’s an interesting exercise because the eight books come from four different decades and represent a number of different perspectives on Woolf. I chose these books partly because I think they are good and have offered/ will offer me insights; also because quite simply, they are organized with a chapter on each novel, and because I happen to have copies of most of them that I can mark up. There are other books I could have/should have included, but I realized if I set myself the task of reading, say, twelve books, I would never get through them all in the course of the summer.</div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Fleishman, Avorm. <i>Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading</i>. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1975.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">I just happened to have a copy of Fleishman that I had picked up somewhere. I remembered the really excellent essay he wrote on the structure of Woolf’s short stories, and then doing a search on Woolf and flowers on Amazon, I picked up a reference to a passage on flower symbolism that intrigued me. Although Fleishman’s book is way old (in 1975, Quentin Bell’s biography had just been published and AF only had access to Woolf’s diaries and letters through Bell and the compilation of excerpts , <i>A Writer’s Diary, </i>that Leonard Woolf had published in 1953), I still find it useful, perhaps because I share some of his critical antecedents, such as Northrop Frye. Although the book is mostly a study of imagery, Fleishman has a good eye for structure and presents helpful analytical outlines of nearly every book. </div><div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Lee, Hermione. <i>The Novels of</i> <i>Virginia Woolf</i>. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1977.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">I picked Hermione Lee’s book because I respected the hard-nosed acumen of her magisterial biography of Woolf and was curious as to what she thought of the works, apart from the life. Being published before the great waves of Woolf scholarship, the book is sometimes amusingly dismissive of aspects of Woolf’s work that have since been treated with great seriousness. But I do admire her critique of the overly facile dichotmomizing of early Woolf criticism. Like Fleishman, she has a rather formalist approach, focusing on how Woolf changes the structure of each novel to “match her vision of reality with its appropriate form” (14).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Moore, Madeline. <i>The Short Season Between Two Silences: The Mystical and the Political in the Novels of Virginia Woolf.</i> Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1984.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">This is one of the first books I read on Woolf, way back in 1993, when I was writing my initial paper on Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe. It had been useful to me then, and several people at this year’s Woolf conference quoted passages from it that I found intriguing, so I decided to revisit it. The central question of her work – how did VW “reconcile her materialist beliefs with her spiritual longings?”— combines aspects of both archetypal and social/historical criticism with a somewhat psychological emphasis on mystical elements in Woolf’s world view.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Zwerdling, Alex. <i>Virginia Woolf and the Real World</i>. Berkeley: U of CA P, 1986. <o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">Zwerdling’s book was the first to thoroughly document the social and historical contexts of Woolf’s work and remains a vital and often-quoted source today. I had read bits and pieces of it, and so liked the idea of actually reading it all the way through as a coherent argument. Once I started to get into it, I particularly admired the way in which he managed to get beyond the simple dichotomies characteristic of early Woolf criticism and see the inextricable complexity with which Woolf’s inner and outer world interact with each other, how she challenges “the familiar distinction between objective and subjective observation” (23) .</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Dick, Susan. <i>Virginia Woolf</i>. Routledge, 1989.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">Dick’s slim little volume was something I had picked up at a used bookstore somewhere. I knew she had done the definitive edition of Woolf’s short fiction and had read the chapter on how the short stories of <i>Monday or Tuesday</i> related to <i>Jacob’s Room.</i> Interested in how the importance and function of storytelling is revealed through individual characters, Dick analyses how the short fiction often tests out narrative strategies subsequently used in the novels. Her explanation of how the rhythms of consciousness shape Woolf’s narratives is especially helpful.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Briggs, Julia . <i>Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life. </i>London: Penguin[Allen Lane] 2005.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">Re-reading Julia Briggs’ study of Woolf’s creative processes is a real labor of love. I remember how excited I was to be able to get a copy in London several months before the book appeared in the US, going deep into the basement of Foyles to get my reserved copy and having a long, enthusiastic conversation with the sales clerk, who was one of Jane Goldman’s graduate students and eager to talk Woolf with a fellow academic. Briggs’ book is that rare synthesis which sees both the forest and the trees: it presents both the kind of general, structural pattern-recognition that only comes from having read and thought about and connected everything in Woolf with wonderful nuggets of carefully researched information about obscure allusions.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>deGay, Jane. <i>Virginia Woolf’s Novels and the Literary Past.</i> Edinburg UP, 2006,2007.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: 0.25in;">I am reading this book because I am interested in Woolf’s relationship to her literary past, especially the Victorians. DeGay’s book focuses on Woolf’s reading process, how she engages with texts and transforms them to fit her own historical contexts, and in the mechanisms of influence.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><b>Goldman, Jane. <i>The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf</i>. Cambridge UP, 2006.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"> After looking at all the available introductions to Woolf’s life and work, I decided that Jane’s was the best and so ordered it for the seminar. Her elegant and concise summaries of the issues of each novel incorporate her established interests in modernism and Woolf’s engagement with the visual arts, and her critical references are impeccable.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.25in;"><br />
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</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-65401448833082464172010-06-11T08:07:00.000-07:002010-06-11T08:14:28.271-07:00Woolf and Nature: The 20th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf<div class="MsoNormal">I just thought I’d add a few observations and images to Vara and Paula’s blogs on the Woolf conference recently held at Georgetown College in Kentucky.</div><div class="MsoNormal"> While this conference was small, it was very intimate and coherent. You really got to see everyone and catch up, and almost all the sessions were directly on topic, so it was even more exhilarating than usual to be constantly connecting ideas. There was a lot of quoting each other from session to session.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I particularly enjoyed Judith Allen’s provocative talk the first day on wild grasses in Woolf, which gave me a lot to think about, especially that image of paving over the grasses with grey stone. And I learned more than I may have really wanted to know about Rupert Brooke from Gill Lowe’s fascinating account of his wild swimming behavior. Georgia Johnston, as always, really made me think differently – in this case about “Lappin and Lappinova.” I really appreciated the thumbnail history of eco-criticism that Bonnie Kime Scott gave us, and like many appreciated the fact that she tried (as always) to be fully inclusive and remember back through ALL the mothers. (Picture below, from left: Judith, Suzanne, Marty, Gill, and Kathryn)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IuEoalpytQMBcCyCdLE1Sc8Ctc8X1iVxADmh-Ku1mkygvPIRD_xUHWHHtPrAAiAapYuQwQeyYKGoAVlovKt-Bzzk34us4-tIy7GdMlhqpZ0kjPogpvj_Um2_1n8JFWNxUTIMjR7p24c/s1600/our+gang.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2IuEoalpytQMBcCyCdLE1Sc8Ctc8X1iVxADmh-Ku1mkygvPIRD_xUHWHHtPrAAiAapYuQwQeyYKGoAVlovKt-Bzzk34us4-tIy7GdMlhqpZ0kjPogpvj_Um2_1n8JFWNxUTIMjR7p24c/s320/our+gang.gif" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"> On Friday I went to some really stellar sessions. Of course I was partial to “Painting Woolf” since my friend Marty Epp-Carter was showing the results of a collaborative Clemson class on Graphic design—some stunning student books covers for “Kew Gardens.” But Suzanne Bellamy’s meditation on climate change as a driver of identity transformation in <i>Orlando </i>gave me something new to think about. As did Cara Lewis’s brilliant talk on the unframed paintings in <i>To the Lighthouse</i>—perhaps the single best talk of the whole conference as it gave me a significant new way to look at a novel that has already received a pretty comprehensive academic treatment.<br />
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As always, I loved listening to Cecil Woolf’s memories of Leonard and Virginia—I never get tired of the authenticity and humane humor of his stories. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p>Saturday morning I was intrigued by Kathryn Simpson’s reading of “Lappin and Lappinova” as a counterpart to <i>Three Guineas</i>. Erin Penner did a nice job of reading the short stories back into our understanding of nature in <i>Mrs. Dalloway.</i> And Catherine Hollis’s discussion of mountaineering images in Woolf made me glad I’d bought her new volume in the Bloomsbury Heritage series. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Xn7fv0B6hFeL9hs-S90bMXzVMXreJ0OMJIHe5wh-_3S4BzBcdXhDw4_GU68J94tuofmuj0Muffr6fc6JejLe-P94fp3yJW6yc3j7g6qOETXmjSXWF5ALi-t3ci5ZJ1pVNx3esK03TFQ/s1600/jean+and+jane.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Xn7fv0B6hFeL9hs-S90bMXzVMXreJ0OMJIHe5wh-_3S4BzBcdXhDw4_GU68J94tuofmuj0Muffr6fc6JejLe-P94fp3yJW6yc3j7g6qOETXmjSXWF5ALi-t3ci5ZJ1pVNx3esK03TFQ/s320/jean+and+jane.gif" /></a> At the banquet I was much amused by the animated version of the Great Frost episode in <i>Orlando</i>—another treasure recovered by the intrepid archive-explorer Leslie Hankins. And like many I was delighted by the return of the Woolf Players. These readings of Woolf’s own words often are a kind of high point in the conference for me, a reminder of why we are all here together. Judith Allen began the reading with an excerpt from a lovely article about reading aloud which you can read <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/opinion/16sat4.html?_r=1&emc=eta1">here</a>. (Photo to the right is Jean Moorcroft Wilson Woolf, and Jane Goldman, who will be hosting next year's conference at Glasgow)</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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After quite a lively end to the evening downtown at a local pub where we pulled, I think, 5 tables into a long L of babbling Woolfians, I was reluctant to pull myself out of bed for the 8:30 AM sessions on Sunday. But I was rewarded by a lively exchange on “Animals, Social Deviance, and Evolution” in which Elizabeth Mills and Sarah Henning -Stout made me think much more coherently about birds on Woolf, and Jeannie Dubino taught me to read <i>Flush</i> with a serious attention to the heritage of Spaniels.<br />
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Diana Swanson’s concluding plenary in the art gallery gave us all another chance to look at the show collected for the conference, without the distraction of food, and was the perfect ending to the conference, reminding us of the ways in which teaching Woolf can be part of a larger effort to help restore balance between the human and natural world.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-24453737458681011392010-06-10T08:06:00.000-07:002010-06-10T08:06:15.718-07:00Summer ReadingDear Woolf-Packers—<br />
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I hope you are all having a great summer! I certainly am. Just got back from the 20th annual international conference on Virginia Woolf. If you want some gossip about what Woolf scholars are doing, and pictures of them, you might be interested in Paula Maggio’s blog: <a href="http://bloggingwoolf.wordpress.com/">http://bloggingwoolf.wordpress.com/</a> Vara Neverow has posted a blog about the conference as well: <a href="http://vneverow.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/just-back-from-the-woolf-conference-in-kentucky/">http://vneverow.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/just-back-from-the-woolf-conference-in-kentucky/</a><br />
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He starts out with a chapter on Walt Whitman and the mind/body connection; then moves on the George Eliot and Darwin, covering most of the senses with chapters on taste and the father of French cooking, sight and Cezanne, and music and Stravinsky . The chapter on Proust is about memory of course, and the book ends with language and Gertrude Stein and consciousness and Virginia Woolf. Aside from just being interesting to anyone who is a thinking human, the book also ends up being quite a refreshing introduction to a lot of the basic ideas of modernism, and I think would serve as a good background to reading Woolf in the fall. <br />
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Hope you all are looking forward to the seminar as much as I am.<br />
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See you in August.Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-85253243610841547782010-05-05T21:08:00.000-07:002010-05-05T21:09:31.367-07:00Tentative Syllabus for Virginia Woolf SeminarEK Sparks<br />Tentative Syllabus for Virginia Woolf Seminar<br />Fall 2010<br /><br />1. Th, Aug 19 : Course Intro<br />2. T, Aug 24: Resources, References, Libraries, Journals, etc. Biographical PPT.<br />3. Th, Aug 26: “A Sketch of the Past” (1939) (VWR)<br />4. T, Aug 31: “The Mark on the Wall” (1917) (VWR)<br />5. Th, Sep 2: “Kew Gardens” (1919) (VWR)<br />6. T, Sep 7: Jacob’s Room (1922)<br />7. Th, Sep 9: Jacob’s Room<br />8. T, Sep 14: Early Essays: “Modern Fiction” (1919; 1925) (VWR), “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” (1923) (VWR); “Lives of the Obscure: Miss Ormerod” (1924); “On Not Knowing Greek “(1925) (VWR) ; “Jane Austen” (1925) (VWR)<br />9. Th, Sep 16: T, Sep 21: Mrs. Dalloway (1925)<br />10. Th, Sep 23: Mrs Dalloway<br />11. T, Sep 28: To the Lighthouse (1927)<br />12. Th, Sep 30: To the Lighthouse<br />13. T, Oct 5: To the Lighthouse<br />14. Th, Oct 7: Orlando (1928)<br />15. T, Oct 12: Orlando<br />16. Th, Oct 14: Middle Essays: “How Should One Read a Book?” (1926) (VWR); “Street Haunting” (1927) (VWR); “On Being Ill” (1930) (VWR); “Memories of a Working Women’s Guild” (1930); “Professions for Women” (1931) (VWR)<br />17. T, Oct 19: A Room on One’s Own (1929)<br />18. Th, Oct 21: A Room of One’s Own<br />19. T, Oct 26: The Waves (1931)<br />20. Th, Oct 28: The Waves<br />FALL BREAK<br />21. Th, Nov 4: The Waves<br />22. T, Nov 9: Late Short Stories and Essays: “Walter Sickert: A Conversation” (1934); “Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid” (1941); “Death of the Moth” (p.h.)<br />23. Th, Nov 11: Three Guineas (1938)<br />24. T, Nov 16: Three Guineas<br />25. Th, Nov 18: Between the Acts (1941)<br />26. T, Nov 23: Between the Acts<br />THANKSGIVING<br />27. T, Nov 30: Late Short Stories: “Lappin and Lappinova” (1938) (VWR); “The Searchlight” (1929,39,p.h.); “The Legacy” (1940)<br />28. Th, Dec 2: Wrap-up<br />WOOLF MINI-CONFERENCE: Students present final projects during scheduled exam timeElisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-39499503067746626492010-05-05T21:07:00.000-07:002010-05-05T21:08:25.569-07:00BOOKS FOR WOOLF SEMINARBOOKS FOR WOOLF SEMINAR (prices off amazon.com)<br />REQUIRED (IN ORDER OF USE)<br />· The Virginia Woolf Reader (Paperback) Mitchell A Leaska (Editor) Mariner Books ISBN-10: 0156935902 $14.53<br /><br />· Jacob's Room (Harcourt; Mariner. New Annotated edition, ed. Vara Neverow) ISBN-10: 0156034794. $12.75<br />· Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt; Mariner. New, Annotated Edition, ed. Bonnie Kime Scott) ISBN-10: 0156030357 $10.20<br /><br />· Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse. (Harcourt; Mariner.. New Annotated Version. Ed. Mark Hussey) ISBN-10: 0156030470 $10.50<br />· Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. (Harcourt; Mariner. New Annotated version, ed. Susan Gubar) ISBN-10: 0156030411 $10.20<br />· Virginia Woolf, Orlando (Harcourt; Mariner. New Annotated edition, ed.Maria DiBattissta) $10.20 ISBN-10: 0156031515<br />· The Waves (Harcourt; Mariner. New Annotated edition, ed.Molly Hite )$10.20ISBN-10: 0156031574<br />· Three Guineas (Harcourt; Mariner. New Annotated edition, ed., ed. Jane Marcus) $10.55 ISBN-10: 0156031639<br />· Between the Acts (Harcourt, New Annotated version. Ed. Melba Cuddy-Keane) ISBN-10: 0156034735 $10.20<br /><br />RECOMMEDNED<br /><br />Goldman, Jane. The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf . Cambridge University Press (October 9, 2006) <br /><br />Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Vintage (October 5, 1999) ISBN-10: 0375701362 $14.96<br /><br />Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Work, and Critical Reception (Literary a to Z's) by Mark Hussey (Paperback - Nov. 21, 1996) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0195110277/ref=sr_1_10_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1271969709&sr=8-10&condition=used">25 used</a> from $4.00Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5051633552802616879.post-41752533369739154322010-05-05T20:40:00.001-07:002010-05-05T21:04:15.762-07:00Letter to Class 5/5/10<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_pvNKPo8x7VxJ4eYeMaDC0E2I8nK-xdHvpIUij4sztxZVQ6nVPkfmJd1RfqQ9yYy0KaJy7JQu-a7EfHw7fRGsNAxy6etUoI0PfSJwaDQQcMXyeaJNLL-JY_cFJLyZk1ibC8nZyek3hY/s1600/vwlev.GIF"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467997525406173138" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 136px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf_pvNKPo8x7VxJ4eYeMaDC0E2I8nK-xdHvpIUij4sztxZVQ6nVPkfmJd1RfqQ9yYy0KaJy7JQu-a7EfHw7fRGsNAxy6etUoI0PfSJwaDQQcMXyeaJNLL-JY_cFJLyZk1ibC8nZyek3hY/s200/vwlev.GIF" border="0" /></a><br />Dear member of the Woolf-pack—<br />You’ve signed up for the senior capstone seminar on Virginia Woolf in the Fall. I am writing you to tell you a little bit about the class, so you can –if you want; this isn’t a requirement—get a bit of a head start over the summer.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Attached you’ll find a tentative syllabus. I am pretty sure about all the books we are reading. I’m also attaching a list of preferred editions for the class. I know a lot of you may already have copies of some of Woolf’s work and it’s okay to use those, but I’d really rather, whenever <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiVpG0EZyFPcnk_Lgrjo8PXGTBKeTem2xO0za2g5b5rc7z1-IlxZ2Zq3b80nlh75g-XaQtgncusxWFB0p3AaVgzgUU4Mu3oe3-uedWdYQXCoxOAECx7KTO9JsfwYz-UWtGRdVlvRCNb0/s1600/41HJrAfeHCL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467998583581991650" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixiVpG0EZyFPcnk_Lgrjo8PXGTBKeTem2xO0za2g5b5rc7z1-IlxZ2Zq3b80nlh75g-XaQtgncusxWFB0p3AaVgzgUU4Mu3oe3-uedWdYQXCoxOAECx7KTO9JsfwYz-UWtGRdVlvRCNb0/s200/41HJrAfeHCL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a>possible, you use the new annotated editions from Harcourt Brace. (The entire series is edited by Mark Hussey.) Not only are these definitive texts, they also contain excellent, very up-to-date Introductions, and annotations of all the historical, literary, political, artistic allusions you might otherwise miss. They are cheap, costing about $10-12 each, and the more of you have these texts, the easier it will be to be “on the same page” in class.<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3Qk5agHDY9ASEjIrme-aagI8zDtBCt4M9eH4zFZZ-na-YuwWYuX8jZwC_nI6GlUnSwR8bp7xFmjjNxnwmV35LU4RdlbIDQf-d-I9uHuXH6WRw5qpYWp2zUzo5zPKemPHGvgWhBwPDsI/s1600/41+EPSKsb1L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467998719223676242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3Qk5agHDY9ASEjIrme-aagI8zDtBCt4M9eH4zFZZ-na-YuwWYuX8jZwC_nI6GlUnSwR8bp7xFmjjNxnwmV35LU4RdlbIDQf-d-I9uHuXH6WRw5qpYWp2zUzo5zPKemPHGvgWhBwPDsI/s200/41+EPSKsb1L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsCkZKUGoUDDDE3b2iOx0Yu0w7RomoCwZwUs1JKyUlx96q4bq3bw5WQIfQ3QdvL2kiTm6WHUJwlYfXHqBE9v4vS6lmzUCV-OQtqhJr-XXApq-ysW5zhJdNoYsONG9q5wBWbiSVAdP74Q/s1600/41b-OTApOZL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467998841954382882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 114px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxsCkZKUGoUDDDE3b2iOx0Yu0w7RomoCwZwUs1JKyUlx96q4bq3bw5WQIfQ3QdvL2kiTm6WHUJwlYfXHqBE9v4vS6lmzUCV-OQtqhJr-XXApq-ysW5zhJdNoYsONG9q5wBWbiSVAdP74Q/s200/41b-OTApOZL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4W4YJvmjDd55FUHEAWOApqXHy0ytrzZmEE0oTDzb2GoJnHP3QAOisomVhL5yfU2656s0eRocg3qsrc-_hJhbB7BrIYRXD671XrMXxvmghiZWlf10gGIwY5bd_Gbr7wwL4kPQ761IQYhQ/s1600/41ZpCygpirL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467998904112840898" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4W4YJvmjDd55FUHEAWOApqXHy0ytrzZmEE0oTDzb2GoJnHP3QAOisomVhL5yfU2656s0eRocg3qsrc-_hJhbB7BrIYRXD671XrMXxvmghiZWlf10gGIwY5bd_Gbr7wwL4kPQ761IQYhQ/s200/41ZpCygpirL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="right"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXtCY-Z0XyGfT9iWfGjrnZlIyTDMdA-49T6uV0Fmm4CCmzpUdbj9Gb8MGGa9_W6ixVjMfTYYN4H5LE6U2DA-aA5EvjvnajwOuiusLXCaLjoeofx4HZHcJypfFzU4Q95C-wQH-aP5kBPQ/s1600/51CJ9BTXGGL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468002682965815458" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzXtCY-Z0XyGfT9iWfGjrnZlIyTDMdA-49T6uV0Fmm4CCmzpUdbj9Gb8MGGa9_W6ixVjMfTYYN4H5LE6U2DA-aA5EvjvnajwOuiusLXCaLjoeofx4HZHcJypfFzU4Q95C-wQH-aP5kBPQ/s200/51CJ9BTXGGL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />We are reading a total of eight books by Woolf, six novels and two book-length essays, all of which are available in this annotated format. In addition we will be reading a selection of other essays and short stories. The majority of these are <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUXeWyL24s7O3amfgeFtd4udrPwvVGSnEjVXgmRug2MNFkgTzz5CMVOoxc_hbPRhO4QT_79VGpGdd18ks5wlwE1U6RavVqAA02ADp3GWJcVQMaIrrVXoOQM3NTBuBWxAoo6PlTdvT8xJ4/s1600/51CJ9BTXGGL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"></a>conveniently collected in The Virginia Woolf Reader, ed. by Leaska, which you really do need to buy. (On the syllabus, the stuff highlighted in yellow is what is not in Leaska, which I need to remember to find on-line or post on BB)<br /></div><br /><br /><div align="left">If you would like a really good, genial Introduction to Virginia Woolf, I’d really recommend The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman. It’s very recent, and she is very smart. The book covers the life, work, contexts, and critical reception. Her lists of recommended articles for further reading are impeccable, and the last section offers a really useful history of trends in Woolf criticism. (The book is $25 on Amazon, but I see lots of remaindered copies available for $3+ shipping.) <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIh87K83KpwwFCxvFAuBHPPeWPvz34w68880656LoNn49U6PYNgk3SP0nZoWY8B2Q_53GDs568h3tnLvMC6EUaPXs070mXwTLkCbKI0JbEFd-5hISDlO3X3Qmi321y-leUm0qMK4MvAw/s1600/51M7NQFHK6L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468000109545017250" style="WIDTH: 149px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 139px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAIh87K83KpwwFCxvFAuBHPPeWPvz34w68880656LoNn49U6PYNgk3SP0nZoWY8B2Q_53GDs568h3tnLvMC6EUaPXs070mXwTLkCbKI0JbEFd-5hISDlO3X3Qmi321y-leUm0qMK4MvAw/s200/51M7NQFHK6L._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><br /><p align="right">If you want to go the whole hog/ total immersion route, I’ suggest Hermione Lee’s magisterial, <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQbShin8O77kCqKVBZUZ8nHJhbaUzZ3ny5pNWwTTbNUztCPim57DugGQk6WBCCnvfU9N1Ik1bjWGAs_tH6IKVS2fDJmVyghc_kZedbcl_d_l1wN_2I4ydzkH4EzLBXJZnUIib2ZS6yAU/s1600/51P310553TL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5468001062198911490" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 115px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 115px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWQbShin8O77kCqKVBZUZ8nHJhbaUzZ3ny5pNWwTTbNUztCPim57DugGQk6WBCCnvfU9N1Ik1bjWGAs_tH6IKVS2fDJmVyghc_kZedbcl_d_l1wN_2I4ydzkH4EzLBXJZnUIib2ZS6yAU/s200/51P310553TL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" border="0" /></a>definitive biography. It’s very long and probably more than you’d ever want to know, but it’s awfully good. I am re-reading it right now and am amazed at how she manages to weave in every single important passage from the diaries and letters etc. It has lovely chapters on Woolf’s relationships with other important Modernists such as Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot.<br /></p><br /><br />I haven’t yet decided exactly what the course assignments will be. I know you’ll have a final seminar paper (8-12 pp), a shortened version of which you’ll deliver at a class mini-conference during our regular final exam slot. I also think I’ll ask you to do a page per class day in a blog, so that I can see you are doing the reading, and so you have a chance to write about what interests you. I’d also like to assign a visual journal/altered book, a more visually creative kind of reading journal that’s been very successful in the past. I’m still trying to decide how to introduce some requirement for you to occasionally read a critical essay or two. And I’d like to be giving you some sustained feedback on your writing. However, I want the main focus of the seminar to be READING and discussing Woolf, so I am trying to find ways to make sure there aren’t too many assignments.<br /><br /><br />I’m really looking forward to teaching this class. It’s the first time I’ve been able to teach a whole course on Virginia Woolf. I’m currently working on a book about parks, gardens, and flowers in Woolf’s life and work and will probably be blogging along with you on my own Woolf track.Elisa Kay Sparkshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12799520611077133253noreply@blogger.com0