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Call for Submissions: 2023 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…

Call for Nominations: New Officers and Advisory Board

In May 2023, the IVWS will hold elections for new officers as well as members of its Advisory Board (i.e., members-at-large). Current members-at-large may self-nominate to continue their service on the board. Per a pre-election ballot held earlier in March, the Society will expand its Advisory Board, accommodating up to 10 members. Per the results…

IVWS Members Event feat. 2021/2022 Winners of the Angelica Garnett Prize (24 March 2023)

IVWS Spring Virtual Event Featuring a Panel of the 2021/2022 Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize Recipients Date: 24 March 2023Time: 2:00–3:30pm EDT (New York)/6:00–7:30pm GMT (London)(The event will take place over Zoom. Members will be sent a Zoom link via email ahead of the event. The event will be recorded and made available to IVWS…

The IVWS was so pleased to feature and celebrate three researchers recognized by the annual Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize (hosted and funded by the Society): Gabriela Zetehaku, Eleanor Clark, and Jasmine Woodcock. Pamela Caughie served as respondent while the IVWS President (Ben Hagen) chaired and hosted the Zoom session. The event was recorded and members will have access to it soon! From the #HungerfordCollection - a first American edition of Virginia Woolf’s #BetweentheActs (1941). Though missing a dust jacket, this copy is in good condition. Of interest is Ed’s receipt, which confirms a payment of $20.00 USD and a purchase date of November 18th, 1980. From the #HungerfordCollection – a beautiful copy of the 1937 Modern Library reprint of the first American edition of Virginia Woolf’s #TotheLighthouse (1927). It includes a 9-page introduction by Terence Holliday. Ed seems to have read this copy a few times, heavily annotating the novel in pencil and different colored pens. The only date that appears in the copy is Oct 28th, 1986. Several notes appear on the book’s final pages. From the #HungerfordCollection - a copy of the eighth impression of Virginia Woolf’s #BetweentheActs (1941), printed in 1969. This lovely copy has several notes written in its margins, though the notes stop about halfway through the novel. The marginalia lack Ed’s occasional use of dates (indicating day, month, and year of his response), but one note does draw a connection to Woolf’s essays (which were a primary focus of Ed’s research) and another to resonances with #TotheLighthouse (1927). Last weekend, the IVWS president reorganized the 331 books and items in the #HungerfordCollection (materials that the family of the late Edward Hungerford donated to the Society). Time will tell what’s next for the collection, but at least it now enjoys some order (however temporary), and its pieces have been catalogued. From the #HungerfordCollection - a first edition (without dust-jacket) of Virginia Woolf’s final novel, #BetweentheActs (1941). According to handwriting inside the front cover, the copy was purchased (by Ed?) in Victoria, B.C. in 1965 for 90¢. A slip of paper tucked inside the copy includes this information as well as other notes identifying it as a first edition. Traces of the original purchase (Christmas 1941) also appear inside the front cover.