Virgina Wolf, in touches of high-tech Nov 9, 2008
That run happens to be about a century after the Bloomsbury group came together. If this juncture seems apt for bringing Woolf to the stage, the timing was partly luck. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A Brief Biography of Virginia Woolf... Oct 13, 2008
A complex network of friendships and love affairs developed, serving to increase the solidarity of what became known as the Bloomsbury Group. Here she met Leonard Woolf, the author, politician and economist whom she married in 1912. (Suite101.com)
Now class, sit up straight in your chaise longues Sep 6, 2008
Not only is it home, historically, to the Bloomsbury Group there's a blue plaque honouring turbaned serial shagger Ottoline Morrell around the corner but several of the greatest learning institutions in London are located within a three-block radius. Charles Darwin lived five minutes away. (Globe and Mail)
Library made the hub of an 'impossible house' Jul 22, 2008
But before addressing all that, they gave their place an identity because, Ms. German says, "We knew the lifestyle we wanted here." And because that lifestyle had much in common with author Virginia Woolf and her gang of aesthetes known as the Bloomsbury Group, the name was obvious. "They'd be in London doing their thing, but they'd go to their country houses and have friends over and have conversations [about] design and literature and politics and economics," says Ms. German. (Globe and Mail)
Letters cast a new light on famous lesbian affair Jul 14, 2008
Funny, revealing and downright bitchy pen-portraits of the leading figures of the Bloomsbury Group, the key British literary stars of the 1920s and 1930s, have come to light in unpublished correspondence between the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and an aspiring young writer. The letters, to novelist Margaret Howard, which are up for sale at the auction house Sotheby's on 17 July and are expected to fetch around 22,000, show the depth of Sackville-West's feeling for Virginia Woolf, with... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Richard Chopping Jun 14, 2008
Alas, collaboration with the writer and Bloomsbury group member Frances Partridge for a lengthy wildflower series was cancelled by cost-conscious Allen Lane. Meanwhile, he had written and illustrated the delightful stories of Mr Postlethwaite's Reindeer (1945), broadcast by the BBC. Much fuller narratives than Edward Gorey later created, these too feature remote buildings and lugubrious factotums. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Democracy gone to pot May 29, 2008
Literary lore has it that Anand conceptualised and wrote Untouchable in the rarefied realm of London's so-called Bloomsbury Group, which included writers like Virginia Woolf. On his return to India, Anand showed his manuscript to Mahatma Gandhi, who read and returned it with the terse comment that the language of the narrative was that of Bloomsbury, not of an untouchable. (India Times, India)
TOY THEATER FESTIVAL IS NO SMALL FEAT May 23, 2008
Most of the shows, such as "Duncan, Part 1, or The Boy with a Bird in his Heart," about the English painter Duncan Grant (1885-1978), a member of the Bloomsbury Group, and "Concrete Folk Vari- ations," a serial noir about the underground gay movement in '50s Los Angeles, aren't aimed at small fry. Those that are include Sunday's matinees, at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., of "The Rooster's Gift," about a proud rooster who makes the mistake of oversleeping, and "Zeralda's Ogre," about a monster with an... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Artist Sir Stanley Spencer May 15, 2008
At Slade, Spencer was influenced by lecturer Roger Fry, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Fry stressed the importance of Post-Impressionist painters such as Cezanne, Monet and Gaugin, and in 1910 he organized an exhibit of their works. (Suite101.com)
Creeping use of emoticons has me feeling :-( May 2, 2008
Now Mr. Woolf was not, I admit, your typical teenager, being a freakish intellectual among freakish intellectuals from the get-go: At Cambridge, he belonged to a secret elite debating society, and he went on to be at the centre of a group of brilliant, arrogant, incestuous and gossipy nutbars known as the Bloomsbury group. I recommend this biography for a vision of a life almost totally unlike ours: These were people who lived in and for books. (Globe and Mail -- Technology)
Early Chick Lit Is A Good Fit Feb 25, 2008
Playing Monday nights at the cozy Zipper Factory Theater, it's a richly verbal if not particularly theatrical evening that should well please Bloomsbury Group devotees. Directed by Pamela Berlin, the production is essentially a staged reading that would be more at home in one of the lecture halls at the 92nd Street Y.. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Virginia Woolf Short Bio Jan 26, 2008
Brief biography, the life and works, of influential English author Virginia Woolf, founder of Bloomsbury Group of Writers and co-founder of Hogarth Press. English novelist, essayist and critic Virginia Woolf, (1882-1941), was a founder of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. (Suite101.com)
Ceramics designer created once-novel, now classic, tableware Dec 17, 2007
Her parents were members of the Bloomsbury group literary set. Author Rudyard Kipling was her godfather, and Noel Coward wrote the play "Blithe Spirit" at Portmeirion. (Los Angeles Times)
Brave New World Nov 26, 2007
Everybody is happy now. A world of genetically modified babies, boundless consumption, casual sex and drugs. (Guardian Unlimited -- Life)
'Everybody is happy now' Nov 17, 2007
But when Huxley was writing Brave New World at the beginning of the 1930s, he was, in his own words, an "amused, Pyrrhonic aesthete", a member of that group of bright young upstarts that swirled around the Bloomsbury Group and delighted in attacking anything Victorian or Edwardian. So Brave New World tosses out the flowing robes, the crafts, and the tree-hugging. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
50 best no-fly holidays Mar 18, 2007
The Literary Sussex trip, for example, which starts on 10 June, is based at the George Hotel in Rye, and includes guided visits to Lamb House, where Henry James lived, and trips to Rudyard Kipling's house, Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst, and the Bloomsbury Group bases Monk's House and Charleston Farmhouse. The four-night trip costs 746pp. (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Music's Shining Light Mar 4, 2007
"I had scarcely read her before, and I know exactly why. Because I'm basically a working-class boy from the north of England, and it's class hatred -- these people from the Bloomsbury group who swanned around with all of this privilege, I think they're talking about things that basically preserve the privileged people, and I have no interest. I say all this without having read them. Adele said, 'Read this and read the book,' and then I read it and thought this is really rather remarkable, and... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Posco eases share rules Feb 26, 2007
Recruiter: The Bloomsbury Group. Recruiter: National Treasury Management Agency. (FT.com -- Markets)
US stocks retreat as oil rises Feb 23, 2007
Recruiter: The Bloomsbury Group. Recruiter: Huntswood. (FT.com -- Markets)
