#viginia woolf

[oldwinesoul]

—Viginia Woolf

[klainesheilen]

05. July

My bestie recommanded and borrowed me this book. Finished it in two days. Five stars. (also reading someones else's annotated books >>>>>) Slowely I am getting out of my reading slump.

[sincabaiyibakilsin]

Sonra herkes, kendi dünyasına daldı. Geçti, geçmez dediğimiz zaman. Kuşları unuttuk ...

- İlhan Berk

[bisexual-culture-is]

virginia woolf

[zazamatic]

Virginia Woolf in a Deck Chair. Vanessa Bell. Painted 1912.

Dressing table. Omega Workshops (designer) L. Kallenbourne Ltd (maker). 1919

Sisters-Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell-author & artist of these book cove

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack”- Virginia Woolf

This is a funny portrait showing all the different relationships as to who was sleeping with whom. It was hard to keep up.

Top left: Harold Nicolson, Vanessa Bell, Leonard Woolf. Second row: Vita Sackville West, Virginia Woolf. Third row: Clive Bell (bald), Virginia Woolf's brother, Adrian Stephen and  Lytton Strachey (beard) Fourth row: Roger Fry, Ottoline Morrell, Dora Carrington, Mark Butler. Bottom row: Duncan Grant, Violet , Ralph Morrison, Katherine Mansfield

The Bloomsburys  were an impressive and talented  group of English writers and artists whose ideas about Edwardian/Victorian society differed greatly from their conservative countrymen.  They were advocates of having a variety of  sexual partners and were  very accepting  of homosexuality. It all started in Cambridge when Clive Bell (below) met Lytton Strachey and  Thorby Stephen, whose sisters were Virginia and Vanessa.  

The group start with those who met at Cambridge and then included relatives and friends, but as years passed and members died, the group changed. When WWII began and many were conscientious objectors they were mocked for their intellectual elitism. They were interesting and gifted to be sure and to this day there is controversy about them because of their views. None can deny they each were  interesting and each were  gifted as writers, critics, artists, thinkers and that it would have been a hell of an experience to have sat next to them in a compartment on a British train.

http://www.computergroovy.co.uk/women/wwomenartists.html

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O48627/dressing-table-omega-workshops/

http://littleaugury.blogspot.com/2012/03/virginias-flock.html

http://marciaminersroomwithaview.blogspot.com/2013/01/bloombury-group_21.html

[johnn009]

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

Virginia Woolf

[nopleasestay-here]

Penso a come contiamo poco, come tutti contino poco; com'è travolgente e frenetica e imperiosa la vita, e come tutte queste moltitudini annaspino per restare a galla.

Virginia Woolf

[iamexulansis]

But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking?

Virginia Woolf, An Unwritten Novel