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Image Citation: MS Thr 564 (76). Houghton Library, Harvard University.

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Call for Submissions: 2024 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize

The International Virginia Woolf Society is pleased to host the Annual Undergraduate Essay Competition in honor of Virginia Woolf and in memory of Angelica Garnett, writer, artist, and daughter of Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell. For this competition, undergraduate essays can be on any topic pertaining to the writings of Virginia Woolf. Essays should be between…

IVWS Officer Profile: Shilo McGiff (Social Media Coordinator)

Bio Shilo McGiff is a founder and Co-Conspirator at the Woolf Salon Project. Along with Valérie Favre, she is Guest Editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany Issue #99: “Portmanteau Woolf.” Her writing can be found in Virginia Woolf and the Anthropocene (June, 2024), Virginia Woolf – Objects, Things, Matter (forthcoming, 2025), Virginia Woolf and Ethics:…

IVWS Officer Profile: Marcia James (incoming Secretary-Treasurer)

Introduction Greetings and thank you for allowing me to serve as the Secretary/Treasurer of the International Virginia Woolf Society from 2024 through 2027. I was asked to run for election because I happened to mention in an email thread “my boring financial experience” (and probably because I kept asking questions about money). I’ve enjoyed my…

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Did you know that we have a website and a blog? On it you can find our current CFPs and conference information, calendar events, current and past officer profiles, our history and bylaws, bibliographies, Woolf Salon recordings, donation links, links to the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Woolf Studies Annual, other Woolf Societies and more. You can find information about membership in the IVWS there as well. Happy Birthday to “Miss Jan” aka Adeline Virginia Woolf née Stephen—our critic, our muse, our raison d’être! Calling all Woolfians! The CFP for the 33rd International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf, Modernity, Technology has been extended to January 31, 2024. From the #HungerfordCollection - two items Ed tucked into his two respective copies of #Freshwater (1976). The first a receipt from Shorey Book Store with instructions to mail the book to Ed’s college office. From the #HungerfordCollection - first editions of #Freshwater (1976), which Woolf composed in 1923 and revised in 1935. The collection has two copies: one with a plastic book jacket cover and one without. From the #HungerfordCollection – the Harvest Book paperback edition of #BetweentheActs (1941) that preceded, by nine years or so, the edition with the John Alcorn cover. According to Ed’s notes inside, this was a “1972, 1975 desk copy.” According to Kirkpatrick, this edition was first published in 1970 with new printings in 1973 (x2), 1974, and 1977. So: a first printing?