Podcasts about Leonard Woolf

Three distinct voices—Leonard Woolf, Gerald Heard, and Thomas Merton—point to the same truth world: The value of right action lies not in the results we achieve for others, but in the rightness of the action itself, and its significance for ourselves. Get in touch: podcast@gretchenrubin.com Visit Gretchen's website to learn more about Gretchen's best-selling books, products from The Happiness Project Collection, and the Happier app. Find the transcript for this episode on the episode details page in the Apple Podcasts app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

De Vlaamse acteur en regisseur Michel van Dousselaere nam in 2018 afscheid van zijn publiek nadat in 2014 een zeldzame vorm van progressieve afasie bij hem werd vastgesteld. Een hersenaandoening waardoor zijn spraakvermogen verdween en hij fysiek aftakelde. Over zijn ziekte maakte hij samen met zijn vrouw, documentairemaker Irma Wijsman, de documentaire Michel, acteur verliest de woorden aan de hand van zijn laatste theaterrol. In het vervolg Michel en de handen op zijn huid portretteert Wijsman vier jonge mensen die voor Michel gezorgd hebben en onderzoekt ze welke impact die zorg op hun jonge leven heeft gehad. Lara Billie Rense spreekt met Wijsman over het werk en leven van Van Dousselaere. Waarom koos hij bewust voor jonge mantelzorgers? En hoe verzorg je iemand zonder woorden? In het tweede uur en de podcast van Wat blijft: In de podcast Wat Blijft hoor je de komende weken de 12-delige serie Grote Geesten over indrukwekkende denkers uit de Humanistische Canon. Van Aristoteles tot Hannah Arendt en van Simone De Beauvoir tot James Baldwin. Wat hebben zij betekend? Wat kunnen we leren van hun leven en denken?  En hoe leven zij voort?    In de tweede aflevering volgt Lotje IJzermans het spoor terug van denker, romancier, feminist en pacifist Virginia Woolf. Ze was oprichter van de Bloomsburygroep, een groep intellectuelen in het literaire leven van Londen en werd bekend met haar boeken ‘Mrs. Dalloway', ‘Naar de vuurtoren' en ‘Orlando'. Haar echtgenoot Leonard Woolf noemde haar een genie, maar ook buiten haar intieme kring oogstte ze veel bewondering.  Ze was de pionier van het modernisme en experimenteerde met bijv. the stream of consciousness-techniek. En nog steeds is haar werk actueel, springlevend en een bron van inspiratie. Haar leven was vol diepe dalen en ze werd geplaagd door depressies. In 1941 maakte ze een einde aan haar leven door zich te verdrinken in de rivier de Ouse.   Lotje praat met drie schrijvers van drie generaties: schrijver en radiomaker Nikki Dekker voor wie Virginia een rolmodel is, schrijver en filosoof Jannah Loontjens die Virginia al sinds haar studententijd bewondert en schrijver en filosoof Joke Hermsen. Presentator: Lara Billie Rense  Redactie: Jessica Zoghary, Nina Ramkisoen, Geerte Verduijn, Sushmita Lageman Eindredactie: Bram Vollaers  Productie: Mare de Vries

In de podcast Wat Blijft hoor je de komende weken de 12-delige serie Grote Geesten over indrukwekkende denkers uit de Humanistische Canon. Van Aristoteles tot Hannah Arendt en van Simone De Beauvoir tot James Baldwin. Wat hebben zij betekend? Wat kunnen we leren van hun leven en denken? En hoe leven zij voort?  In de tweede aflevering volgt Lotje IJzermans het spoor terug van denker, romancier, feminist en pacifist Virginia Woolf. Ze was oprichter van de Bloomsburygroep, een groep intellectuelen in het literaire leven van Londen en werd bekend met haar boeken ‘Mrs. Dalloway', ‘Naar de vuurtoren' en ‘Orlando'. Haar echtgenoot Leonard Woolf noemde haar een genie, maar ook buiten haar intieme kring oogstte ze veel bewondering.  Ze was de pionier van het modernisme en experimenteerde met bijv. the stream of consciousness-techniek. En nog steeds is haar werk actueel, springlevend en een bron van inspiratie. Haar leven was vol diepe dalen en ze werd geplaagd door depressies. In 1941 maakte ze een einde aan haar leven door zich te verdrinken in de rivier de Ouse.  Lotje praat met drie schrijvers van drie generaties: schrijver en radiomaker Nikki Dekker voor wie Virginia een rolmodel is, schrijver en filosoof Jannah Loontjens die Virginia al sinds haar studententijd bewondert en schrijver en filosoof Joke Hermsen.  

“A paixão da leitura” é um ensaio filosófico e bastante didático de Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) sobre a nossa relação com os livros. Logo ao princípio, ela infere o surgimento das bibliotecas e afirma que ler é uma arte muito complexa. Nossa obrigação como leitores são muitas e variadas. Por um lado, devemos nos colocar no banco dos réus e ler sem julgar quem escreveu ou o escrito, mas sim, ler como se estivéssemos escrevendo. Num segundo momento, devemos saber criticar como um juiz, e julgar não apenas os clássicos, mas também os escritores vivos, pois só assim estaremos ajudando a trazer livros bons para o mundo. O ensaio está no livro O Sol e o Peixe, encerrando o capítulo I.A vida e a arte. A relação de Virginia com os livros tem imensas dimensões. Ela escrevia, editava livros à mão, traduzia, debatia e, acima de tudo, ensaiava "Como se deve ler um livro?", em O valor do riso e outros ensaios. Na vertente produção de livros, durante o período entreguerras (1918-1939), o casal Virginia e Leonard Woolf passava o tempo realizando impressão de livros à mão para, alguns anos depois, fundar sua própria editora, a Hogarth Press, que funcionava na sala de estar de casa. Dá para ter uma noção do clima literário a que estavam envolvidos. Boa leitura! Livro autografado Verde Amadurecido de Daiana Pasquim: escreva para leituradeouvido@gmail.com Curso Desenrole seu Storytelling (cupom LDO50): ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bit.ly/desenrolecomleitura⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

1941 - la extraordinaria Virginia Woolf siente que no resiste más y se quita la vida. Tras la carta de Virginia anunciándole su decisión, Leonard Woolf, su marido y socio en la imprenta y admirador y fundamento, sigue recibiendo cartas de pésame, de consuelo y de desconsuelo también. Una que combina todo es la de, cómo no, la amante eterna de Virginia, y amiga de los Woolf, Vita Sackville West que, 3 días después del suicidio le dice a Leonard. Un espacio de Bárbara Espejo.

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Marielle O'Neill and Prof. Peter Stansky discuss the many legacies of Leonard Woolf, notably his anti-imperialism, socialism, and work in international politics.Peter Stansky is a professor of History at Stanford University and the author of Leonard Woolf, Bloomsbury Socialist. His most recent publication is The Socialist Patriot: George Orwell and War. As a distinguished historian, he has judged the Pulitzer Prize, among other book awards. Peter was a finalist for the National Book Awards in 1967, 1973, and 1981. He has also served as a member of the Executive Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has lectured in various parts of North America, Europe and Australia. Marielle is a PhD candidate at Leeds Trinity University. Her research explores the political activism and partnership of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She has been active in politics on both sides of the Atlantic, working on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC and in the Houses of Parliament, London. To learn more about Literature Cambridge, go to https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk or follow them on:Twitter @LitCamband Instagram: @litcamb

Literaturredakteurin Katrin Schumacher stellt diese Woche vor: Tobias Rüthers Biografie über Wolfgang Herrndorf, "Mein Leben mit Virginia" von Leonard Woolf und Erinnerungen an Peter Hacks zum 20. Todestag.

Vent'anni dopo il loro viaggio di nozze, Virginia e Leonard Woolf tornano nuovamente a Venezia. Siamo nell'aprile del 1932 e i "lupi", come vengono chiamati, prendono un treno da Londra, arrivano a Dover e si imbarcano per Calais. Da qui procedono per Parigi dove li attende quell'Orient Express che due anni dopo Agatha Christie renderà scena del suo più celebre romanzo. Con Virginia e Leonard viaggiano il pittore e critico d'arte Roger Fry e sua sorella Margery, una delle prime donne al mondo a diventare magistrato.Consigli di lettura:"Roger Fry" è la biografia che Virginia dedica all'amico, ma anche la testimonianza di un rapporto umano e intellettuali tra i più importanti per la Woolf."Le pietre di Venezia" di John Ruskin furono (e rimangono) tra le pietre miliari della letteratura dedicata alla città. Riferimenti al critico sono numerosi negli scritti di Virginia.Per approfondire la biografia di Agatha Christie uno dei testi più preziosi è senz'altro la sua autobiografia, "La mia vita". Una ricostruzione sulla celebre scomparsa della Christie e sulla scrittura di "Assassinio sull'Orient Express" si trovano in N. Gramonti, "Il caso Agatha Christie". Una sintesi della vicenda è disponibile qui https://mycommunitygarden.blogspot.com/2014/06/bibliotravel-la-seducente-istanbul-tra.html"In Viaggio con Virginia" è il podcast del progetto "My Travelling Library". Ideato e raccontato da Luana Solla.

Durante i suoi viaggi all'estero Virginia Woolf entra in uno stato di vigilanza passiva e lascia che i suoni e le immagini straniere le scorrano nella mente. Si comporta come una balena: l'acqua marina le attraversa la bocca e lei inghiotte tutta quella flora e quella fauna che diventeranno poi alimenti per la sua fantasia e la sua arte. Tornata a casa, arriveranno il momento della digestione e, quindi, della creazione. In questo episodio, facciamo le valigie. E iniziamo a seguire Virginia nei suoi viaggi.Consigli di lettura:I viaggi di Virginia si possoni ricostruire attraverso il suo epistolario (pubblicato parzialmente da Einaudi in più volumi che talvolta si scovano sul mercato dell'usato) ma anche attraverso i diari (di cui sono disponibili diverse edizioni).Preziose sono anche le testimonianze di Leonard Woolf in "La mia vita con Virginia", edito in Italia da Lindau. Proprio in questo volume Leonard descrive la curiosità di Virginia e la sua "somiglianza" con le balene.Sicuramente interessante, seppur parziale, anche J. Morris, "Travels with Virginia Woolf", Londra, The Hogart Press, 1993."Il Viaggio di Virginia" è il podcast del progetto "My Travelling Library". Ideato e raccontato da Luana Solla.

Siempre hay una primera carta. Esta puede ser curiosa o apasionada, tímida o atrevida, insegura o aventurada. Conduce siempre a algún lugar, aunque se tenga la percepción de que no se va a obtener respuesta. Ocasionalmente se convierte en la primera de muchas, en amores que son vividos a través del papel cuando no se podía hacerlo a la vista. DE LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN PARA SU AMADA INMORTAL. MI ÁNGEL: ✉️ Una producción de Historias para ser Leídas, Voz: Olga Paraíso Sonata para violín y piano n.º 5 en Fa mayor, Op. 24, “La Primavera”, de Ludwig van Beethoven,Sonata para violín y piano n.º 5 en Fa mayor, Op. 24, “La Primavera”, de Ludwig interpretado por: Corey Cerovsek (violin) y Paavali Jumppanen (piano)."Grabación en directo 👏👏👏 📌 ¡¡Síguenos en Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas y participa en el sorteo que he preparado ❗️ 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 📌Súbete a nuestra nave y disfruta de contenido exclusivo solo para ti, pulsa el botón azul APOYAR y serás un tabernero galáctico desde 1,49€ al mes. Gracias por tu apoyo. ¡¡Hasta el próximo audio!! 🚀 (｡◕‿◕｡) Título original: As Grandes Cartas de Amor ❣️ Elizabete Agostinho. Traducción: Paz Pruneda. Libro en Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Lbm0Vl ANTERIOR CARTA: De Virginia Woolf para Leonard Woolf: ✍️https://go.ivoox.com/rf/107020332 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Siempre hay una primera carta. Esta puede ser curiosa o apasionada, tímida o atrevida, insegura o aventurada. Conduce siempre a algún lugar, aunque se tenga la percepción de que no se va a obtener respuesta. Ocasionalmente se convierte en la primera de muchas, en amores que son vividos a través del papel cuando no se podía hacerlo a la vista. Título original: As Grandes Cartas de Amor ❣️ Elizabete Agostinho. Traducción: Paz Pruneda. Libro en Amazon: https://amzn.to/3Lbm0Vl DE VIRGINIA WOOLF PARA LEONARD WOOLF, 28 DE MARZO DE 1941 QUERIDO: ✉️ Una producción de Historias para ser Leídas, Voz: Olga Paraíso Base musical Epidemic sound licencia premium autorizada 📌 ¡¡Síguenos en Telegram: https://t.me/historiasparaserleidas 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 📌Súbete a nuestra nave y disfruta de contenido exclusivo solo para ti, pulsa el botón azul APOYAR y serás un tabernero galáctico desde 1,49€ al mes. Gracias por tu apoyo. ¡¡Hasta el próximo audio!! 🚀 (｡◕‿◕｡) Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Encuentra este y otros artículos en http://revistalengua.comEl 28 de marzo de 1941, Virginia Woolf se quitó la vida adentrándose en el río Ouse cerca de su casa de campo en Rodmell. Pocos meses antes, ella y su marido habían abandonado Londres, ya asediada por los brutales bombardeos nazis y la amenaza de una invasión a la isla. En «La muerte de Virginia» (Lumen), Leonard Woolf revisita aquellos meses previos en los que su esposa se mostraba alegre, serena y en un estado de premonitoria quietud y contemplación imperturbable de la muerte como algo extraordinariamente cercano y real.Este artículo contiene fragmentos del audiolibro «La muerte de Virginia», narrado por Eugenio Gómez y Beatriz Melgares; producido por Penguin Audio.Crédito Imagen ilustrativa: Getty Images Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sophie Cunningham is one of Australian literature's most influential figures. She is the author of seven books, a former editor of Meanjin, co-founder of the Stella Prize, and is currently an adjunct professor at RMIT University's non/fiction Lab. Her novel This Devastating Fever, her first work of fiction in fourteen years, was the Melbourne City Reads pick for September 2022. Weaving together the life of Leonard Woolf, the turn of the millennium and environmental collapse, Cunningham examines questions about colonial history, the return of fascism, living through disaster and what it means to cultivate a full, loving and creative life. Join Cunningham and host Emily Bitto for an intimate conversation as they discuss this exhilarating new novel. This event was recorded on Tuesday 22 September 2022 at the Wheeler Centre. The Melbourne City Reads series is generously supported by George and Rosa Morstyn. The bookseller for this event was The Paperback Bookshop. Featured music is Golden Hour by Sarah, the Illstrumentalist.Support the Wheeler Centre: https://www.wheelercentre.com/support-us/donateSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

En librairie le 3 février 2023 et sur https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251453972/le-village-dans-la-jungle Le Village dans la jungle est un livre très particulier, qui procède à la fois de la littérature anglaise, bien entendu, mais aussi d'une certaine façon de la littérature cinghalaise. Il s'agit d'une tragédie qui se déroule dans un cadre lointain certes, mais dont les acteurs sont authentiques et on ne pourra qu'être frappé par la vérité poignante du récit conduit par un auteur qui a parfaitement assimilé une culture, une pensée, une langue même qui ne sont pas les siennes.

En librairie le 3 février 2023 et sur https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251453941/les-vierges-sages Commencé en 1912 pendant leur voyage de noces, Les Vierges sages est une autobiographie romancée, sans complaisance, de la cour douloureuse que Leonard Woolf a faite à Virginia. La crudité des sentiments et des jugements y sous-tend la satire acide d'une société anglaise conforme, futile et mondaine – au bord de la Grande Guerre.

In this episode, Sophie Cunningham talks about using biography as the thematic spine of her novel This Devastating Fever. The bold, playful narrative interweaves two strands: a modern day one in which Melbourne based biographer Alice is struggling to write a biography of Leonard Woolf, and a historical one, in which we meet Leonard in his life as a civil servant in Ceylon and in his marriage to Virginia Woolf. Sophie talks about the research process, how she became haunted by Leonard and Virginia, and why the project took fifteen years to complete.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sara De Simone"Nessuna come lei"Katherine Mansfield e Virginia WoolfStoria di un'amiciziaNeri Pozza Editorehttps://neripozza.itRegina del racconto breve, Katherine Mansfield a 100 anni dalla nascita è una grande voce ancora da esplorare.Morta di tubercolosi a Fontainebleau, vicino a Parigi, il 9 gennaio 1923, a soli 34 anni, ha avuto un'infanzia felice che è diventata fonte di ispirazione delle sue storie ma una vita segnata dall'esilio, il dolore e la battaglia contro la tisi.Nel luglio del 1916, Garsington, la villa di campagna della patrona delle arti Ottoline Morrell, non è solo un rifugio per obiettori di coscienza in piena Prima guerra mondiale, ma un vero e proprio teatro dove, settimana dopo settimana, approda «una compagnia di giro», pronta a esibirsi senza pudore. C'è chi legge Keats ad alta voce, chi dipinge nudi en plein air, chi alleva maiali, chi scrive opuscoli contro la leva obbligatoria. E poi c'è lei, Katherine Mansfield, detta anche Lili Heron, Elizabeth Stanley, Julian Mark, Boris Petrovsky, Matilda Berry: tutti nomi con cui è solita firmare i suoi racconti e poesie. Lytton Strachey, l'eccentrico scrittore del circolo di Bloomsbury, la trova «decisamente interessante», Bertrand Russell la definisce «una mente brillante», per Leonard Woolf è «straordinariamente divertente». L'unica che sembra non subire il suo fascino è proprio Virginia Woolf. «Mi tampina da tre anni» dice con aria snob, a proposito di quella «straniera» che arriva dalle colonie, indossa gonne corte e intona black spirituals accompagnandosi con la chitarra. Ma è questione di pochi mesi: nonostante le iniziali resistenze, qualcosa di misterioso e intenso scatta fra le due scrittrici, qualcosa che le uní a tal punto da fare di Katherine Mansfield una delle prime autrici pubblicate dalla Hogarth Press, la casa editrice dei coniugi Woolf. Qualcosa che Virginia stessa avrebbe definito come una «stranissima sensazione di eco». Questo libro, arricchito di numerosi materiali inediti in Italia, è la storia di quel nucleo misterioso e intenso al cuore della loro amicizia.«Entrambe mettevano la letteratura al primo posto. E questa non era un'affinità come un'altra: era tutto. Era come essere partecipi di un rito segreto, come camminare sulle stesse zolle di terra incandescente, dove nessun altro osava avventurarsi».«Mio Dio, Virginia, adoro pensare a te come un'amica». Katherine Mansfield"Sara De Simone ha conseguito un dottorato in Letterature comparate alla Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Ha tradotto con Nadia Fusini il carteggio tra Virginia Woolf e Vita Sackville-West (Scrivi sempre a mezzanotte, Donzelli 2019). Si occupa di critica letteraria sulle pagine culturali de il manifesto e Il Tascabile. È vicepresidente dell'Italian Virginia Woolf Society.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEAscoltare fa Pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it

The initial idea for this episode was to do a centennial retrospective of the year 1922. The writers TS Eliot, EM Forster, and last but not least, Woolf. Woolf, I think for both of us, ended up being the most fascinating. Partially because a week before, in the Walrus and Carpenter (Will's bookstore) Jonah found a copy of Beginning Again. One part of five of Leonard Woolf's autobiography. A fascinating remnant of literary history which is used to create, in our opinion, literary speculation of which you're hardly going to find the kind in any other podcast (for better and worse). An interesting discussion about stream of conscious - as stream of conscious. Come sit in the bookstore for a while.

Platiqué con la escritora Anna Solyom sobre su libro 'Neko café' y nuestras mascotas. Te comparto mi opinión de la cuarta temporada de Stranger Things en Netflix, la nueva canción de Tini, Anitta y Becky G 'La Loto'. En mi paseo por las librerías te reseño: 'La muerte de Virginia Woolf' de Leonard Woolf con Ed. Lumen, 'Un modo de estar sobre la tierra' de Patricia Carrillo Collard con Ed. Textofilia & 'Nick y Charlie' Una novela de Heartstopper de Alice Osman con VR Editoras YA. te invito a dos eventos en Conjunto Santander: Invocación del Ballet Nacional de España & México de colores, la primera compañía de drag de folclor en México. Te cuento que me pareció la película 'Rendez-Vouz' de pablo Olmos Arrayales. En noticias: La gira de conciertos 'Mi salida contigo' de Haash & Sin cantar ni afinar Latam tour, El Madrileño de C. Tangaga. Ya viene TUDUM de Netflix y el concierto de Gabriel Aury en Estudio Diana de Teatro Diana. También te comparto la charla con Ramón vega y Michelle Maciel y su nueva canción 'Escorpión' con Sony Music México.

“Bella en la adolescencia, llegó bruscamente el instante – por ejemplo, en el río, bajo los bosques de Clievenden – en que, en méritos de una contracción de este frío espíritu, Clarissa había frustrado a Richard. Y después en Constantinopla, y una y otra vez. Clarisa sabía qué era lo que le faltaba. No era belleza, no era inteligencia. Era algo central y penetrante; algo cálido que alteraba superficies y estremecía el frío contacto de hombre y mujer; o de mujeres juntas….” Fragmento de “La señora Dalloway” de Virginia Woolf Una de las novelistas inglesas que de un tiempo a esta parte ha suscitado mayor cantidad de estudios es Virginia Woolf. En pocos años todo parece haberse dicho acerca de la formación de su personalidad en el seno de una familia de holgada economía y de prestigio intelectual sobrado; de su particular sensibilidad, inseparable de su desarrollo como escritora; y de su inestabilidad mental que la condujo a la muerte. De los ingentes comentarios se desprende claramente que el amor al oficio de las letras se encontraba latente en Virginia Woolf cuando de pequeña buscaba libros en la biblioteca de su casa para satisfacer su voracidad lectora. La autora nació en 1.882 en Hyde Park Gate, Kensington, Londres. Fue la tercera de los hijos de Sir Leslie Stephen, editor de “The Dictionary of National Biography” - diccionario biográfico en lengua inglesa, publicado por primera vez entre 1.885 y 1.901, que consta de sesenta y tres volúmenes y en el que aparecen en orden alfabético la biografía de eminentes personalidades que vivieron en el Reino Unido -, y de Julia Duckworth, mujer subordinada a los dictámenes del esposo y al cuidado de sus hijos. Alguno de los rasgos de ambos, como el sarcasmo del padre y la sensibilidad de la madre, serán plasmados en la novela “Al faro” por los señores Ramsay. La débil salud de Virginia la obligó a apartarse de las usuales actividades de las niñas de su edad ya permanecer en casa leyendo todo lo que encontraba allí. La muerte de su madre en 1.895 puso a flote los síntomas del desequilibrio nervioso que Virginia Woolf guardaba en el fondo de su mente. Más adelante el esfuerzo de escribir la sumía en un estado de excitación aguda. La escritora no pudo soportar la vorágine de una nueva guerra, la II Guerra Mundial; ella que en 1.928 había dicho con optimismo: A su castigado cerebro vino a sumarse la fuerte impresión que le causó la muerte de su sobrino, combatiente en el bando republicano en la Guerra Civil española. Luego vendría el bombardeo de su casa londinense. Y en el último acceso de locura, que la hizo pensar en un decaimiento irreversible, Virginia Woolf decidió ahogarse en el río Ouse, la mañana del viernes veintiocho de marzo de 1.941, después de que dejara una nota de despedida a su esposo, que tanto la había cuidado. En 1.912 Virginia Stephen se había casado con el historiador y sociólogo Leonard Woolf. Juntos fundaron la editorial Hogarth Press, que publicó obras de vanguardia. Su casa del barrio londinense de Bloomsbury mantuvo un cenáculo literario y artístico conocido como el y del que ella fue partícipe destacada. Los asistentes a estas reuniones compartían gustos similares y unas creencias comunes en torno a lo que debía ser el arte además de charlar sobre cualquier tema, por muy trivial que fuese. Algunos habían pertenecido a la Sociedad que con propósitos parecidos había constituido un grupo de avanzados estudiantes en la Universidad de Cambridge a principios de siglo. Una de las asiduas a Bloomsbury fue Vanessa Bell, hermana de Virginia, quién ha descrito los primeros años del grupo en los siguientes términos: En el volumen autobiográfico “Beginning again” (Empezando de nuevo), Leonard Woolf incluye en el a los hermanos Vanessa, Virginia y Adrian Stephen; Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, E.M. Foster, Saxon Sydney y Desmond y Molly MacCarthy.No hay duda de que las pautas de comportamiento del grupo no encajaban con las imperantes en aquellos momentos. Eran todos ellos y ellas de una intelectualidad exquisita, escépticos, anti religiosos, enemigos de las usanzas sociales heredadas del victorianismo; cultivaban las relaciones sexuales con franqueza y entera libertad, y algunos se autoconsideraban de izquierdas. Sin embargo, no existió entre sus participantes una decidida intención de agruparse en o artístico. Aun así, aquellas conversaciones hasta las tantas de la noche conformaron la vida y la obra de Virginia Woolf. Sus dos primeras novelas, “Viaje de ida” de 1.915 y “Noche y día” de 1.917, deben mucho a los cauces de la narrativa tradicional, es decir, la modelación de los personajes sujeta a la influencia de una ordenada serie de acontecimientos. Pero a partir de 1.919, la autora empezó seriamente a reflexionar sobre cómo hacer una novelística libre de andamiajes cronológicos, sin intrigas argumentales y sin comedias ni tragedias que contar. Es interesante resaltar que por esas fechas ya había leído a James Joice y Dorothy Richardson. A ese mismo año, 1.919, corresponde su ensayo “La ficción moderna” en donde expresa: . El resultado inmediato de indagar precisamente tras > fue “El cuarto de Jacob”, escrita en 1.922, que anticipa logros posteriores. Se trata de una recolección de reflexiones por parte de varios personajes que revelan la personalidad del protagonista Jacob Flanders: desde su infancia y juventud hasta su prematura muerte en la Primera Guerra Mundial. La acción de “La señora Dalloway”, la gran novela de Virginia Woolf escrita en 1.925, transcurre dentro de los límites de un sólo día, comenzando cuando la esposa de un miembro del Parlamento se dispone a ultimar los detalles para una importante fiesta. La anfitriona, recorriendo las calles londinenses, rememora unos acontecimientos que creía olvidados. La asociación mental se activa en sus misteriosos mecanismos y las inesperadas impresiones se suceden. A intervalos y entre los recuerdos se oyen las campanas del que anuncian a la señora Dalloway la realidad del presente, osea, sus inmediatos quehaceres. Los sonidos, los colores y los más nimios detalles se acumulan con vívida presencia en “Al faro” de 1.927. Abren la primera página de esta historia los Ramsay, reunidos en la casona que poseen cerca del mar. A excepción del padre, el resto de la familia sueña con ir a la isla del faro que se divisa tras las ventanas. Las condiciones atmosféricas del atardecer aconsejan el aplazamiento de la excursión tal como lo previera el señor Ramsay. Bajo este intrascendente motivo aparece un tema profundo: el tiempo, que en su irreversible fluir todo lo altera. Si la primera parte de la novela capta las alegrías de un verano lleno de proyectos, la segunda se ocupa de la pospuesta visita con un interludio de diez años. Semejante lapso de tiempo indica que ya nada es igual: la casa ha perdido el esplendor de antaño, la muerte se ha llevado a varios de sus moradores, las ilusiones se han desvanecido. Y, llegados por fin los visitantes a su destino, ¿qué ocurre? Aquel lugar imaginado años antes como una maravillosa y excitante meta no es en realidad más que una decepcionante conclusión: > A esta novela, estimada por muchos como la mejor de Virginia Woolf, le siguió “Orlando”, escrita en 1.928. La trama de esta peculiar fantasía se extiende a lo largo de cuatro siglos. Su protagonista es un aristócrata dotado de una longevidad sin límites y una facultad que le permite transformarse en mujer. Pero como se lee en un momento de la obra: Sus dos últimas novelas, menos conseguidas que las anteriores, fueron “Los años” de 1.937, y “Entreacto” de 1.941. Compuso Virginia Woolf numerosos artículos para el suplemento literario del periódico Times, posteriormente reunidos bajo el título de “El lector común” (1.925-1.932). En “Una habitación propia” de 1.929, la autora plantea los problemas que salen al encuentro de las escritoras, partiendo del punto que a ella le parecía fundamental: >. Considerada como una de las escritoras referentes del modernismo vanguardista del siglo XX y del movimiento feminista, a Virginia Woolf le tocó vivir en un mundo de hombres. En su casa se respiraba arte, política y un ambiente tan liberal como complejo. A pesar de esto, fueron sus hermanos varones los únicos que pudieron estudiar en la universidad. A los trece años, Virginia sufrió un duro golpe: su madre murió repentinamente. Este hecho provocó en ella su primera crisis depresiva. A esto se unió, dos años más tarde la muerte de su hermana Stella. Pero esto no fue lo único por lo que tuvo que pasar. En una obra autobiográfica la autora desliza que tuvo que soportar abusos sexuales por parte de dos de sus hermanastros y que a raíz de ello jamás pudo dejar de sentir desconfianza hacia los hombres. Al fallecer su padre, en 1.905 y cuando tenía 22 años ya se había intentado suicidar. No lo consiguió pero sufrió una fuerte crisis nerviosa por la que tuvo que ser ingresada durante un tiempo. Hoy en día se considera que Virgina Woolf padeció un trastorno bipolar con fases depresivas severas. Los trastornos más graves que padeció, ya casada, los sufriría entre los año 1.913 y 1.915; Virginia llegó a ingerir cien gramos de veronal, en otro intento por quitarse la vida. En 1.923 conoció a la también escritora Vita Sackville-West, con la que mantuvo una relación amorosa. Vita también estaba casada y aunque la relación entre ellas acabó sin que se separasen de sus respectivos maridos, la amistad entre ambas mujeres se mantendría durante el resto de sus vidas. En el marco de la Operación León Marino, por la cual el ejército nazi iba a invadir Gran Bretaña, Hitler redactó una lista negra en la que se encontraban los nombres de autores tan carismáticos como Aldous Huxley, H.G. Wells y la propia Virginia Woolf. Ella ignoraba que existiera tal lista, pero en el caso de que Alemania acabara invadiendo el país, el matrimonio sabía que tarde o temprano los nazis irían a por ellos, puesto que Virginia era una renombrada intelectual y su esposo Leonard era judío. Llegado el caso, la pareja tenía planeado suicidarse en su garaje aspirando los gases del tubo de escape de su vehículo. Además, Leonard guardaba bajo llave un frasco con una dosis letal de morfina que le había proporcionado Adrián, el hermano psiquiatra de Virginia, por si se complicaban las cosas. Virginia Woolf se veía reflejada en los personajes de sus obras, que rezuman angustia y escepticismo, y en los cuales la idea del suicidio y el miedo a la gente son recurrentes. Le aterraba la soledad, era muy autocrítica y se sentía invadida a menudo por un sentimiento de culpa. También sufría terribles dolores de cabeza e insomnio. Algunos médicos que la trataron, atribuyeron a la escritura sus problemas de salud y algunos le recomendaron incluso que lo dejara, ya que los brotes más fuertes que sufría, que en su diario ella definía como “la ola” y “el horror”, se producían tras el gran esfuerzo que le suponía escribir. A pesar de ello, la escritura fue la tabla de salvación de Virgina Woolf ante el naufragio de su existencia. Pero el 28 de Marzo de 1.941, incapaz de hacer frente a la desesperación que la envolvía, se puso el abrigo, llenó los bolsillos de piedras y se adentró en el rio Ouse dejándose llevar por la corriente. Antes de tomar esa trágica decisión, escribió dos cartas, una para su hermana Vanessa y otra para su marido, las dos personas más importantes de su vida. En su carta de despedida de su querido esposo no sólo se percibe su padecimiento, tristeza y profundo dolor, sino también la gratitud y el gran amor que sentía hacia él. Su cuerpo fue encontrado tres semanas después. Virginia Woolf creía que era necesario que cada vez hubiera más mujeres que escribieran, e incluso llega a hacer una apología de las diferencias entre sexos; dejó escrito:

Aquesta setmana a L'illa de Maians, presentat i dirigit per Bernat Dedéu, parlem dels llibres 'Cinc vells', de Jesús Moncada; i 'Dos relats', de Virginia Woolf i Leonard Woolf. Ens acompanyen: Jaume C. Pons Alorda i Marina Porras. Llibre 1: 'Cinc vells', de Jesús Moncada - https://onallibres.cat/botiga/cinc-vells Llibre 2: 'Dos relats', de Virginia Woolf i Leonard Woolf - https://onallibres.cat/botiga/dos-relats Un podcast d'Ona Llibres - https://onallibres.cat Presentat i dirigit per Bernat Dedéu. Edició i producció per Albert Olaya.

“The bigger the trigger, the bigger the trauma.”  How do we harness more “presence” to experience and process life even better? Listen in on this insightful conversation with Mr. Leonard Woolf, a London-born, Sydney-based Mind Trainer. His specialty is helping his students achieve freedom from the mental challenges that hold them back or cause recurring issues in life. Oils favored: Black Pepper, Rose, Pink Pepper, and Frankincense Visit https://mrwoolf.com.au to learn more and use kalliwilson15 to get 15% off Leonard's coaching. Visit www.kalliwilson.com to join Kalli's Health & Wealth Week! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kalli-wilson/message

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On this day in 1912 writer Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf in London. Their stable marriage enabled Virginia Woolf to flourish as a writer.

Es una de las mejores escritoras del siglo XX gracias a novelas como "La señora Dalloway" o "Las olas". Virginia Woolf era inteligente, inconformista y, sobre todo, libre. En todos los sentidos. En la sociedad machista y conservadora de principios del siglo XX, Virginia fundó el bohemio grupo de Bloomsbury, formado por artistas e intelectuales que tenían la casa familiar como epicentro. Además, escribió uno de los primeros manifiestos feministas, el ensayo ‘Una habitación propia', que da nombre a nuestro podcast, y, aunque estaba casada con el editor Leonard Woolf, dio rienda suelta a su sexualidad con la escritora Vita Sackville-West. Sin embargo, el trastorno bipolar que padecía minó su vida: el 28 de marzo de 1941, hace justo 80 años, Virginia Woolf se metió en el río Ouse con un puñado de piedras en los bolsillos para no emerger nunca más. Su legado, por suerte, brilla más que nunca.

Los jóvenes e inteligentes ingleses se juntaban cada jueves en la casa de Bloomsburry de Virginia junto a otros intelectuales y desarrollaron las emblemáticas tertulias conocidas por haber reinventado el arte, el sexo y el amor.

Today we celebrate the clergyman who wrote hymns and poems that use garden imagery. We'll also learn about the man who loved gardens and garden design - and he wasn’t afraid of Virginia Woolf… he was married to her. We’ll recognize a sculptor whose final work was a touching monument to children incorporating a bouquet of snowdrops. We hear a hauntingly beautiful poem by an English clergyman and poet. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a book that teaches how to make garden crafts and projects that are totally within reach and are utterly charming with their appealing and practical sensibility. And then we’ll wrap things up with the story of an Opera singer turned gardener.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show and more... Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org.   Curated News These Succulent Christmas Trees Are Our New Holiday Obsession | Southern Living | Meghan Overdeep   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events  November 25, 1748   Today is the anniversary of the death of the English Christian minister (Congregational) and prolific hymn writer Isaac Watts. Known as the "Godfather of English Hymnody," Isaac’s hymns are still sung in churches today: “O God our Help in Ages Past,” “There is a Land of Pure Delight.” There’s another Isaac Watts hymn that will be getting some traction over the next month: “Joy to the World.” Isaac’s work marked a turning point for hymn writing because he didn’t just set psalms and scripture to song; he actually wrote original verse. Isaac’s hymn, “We are a Garden Walled Around,” uses garden imagery and is a favorite with gardeners: We are a garden walled around, Chosen and made peculiar ground; A little spot enclosed by grace Out of the world's wide wilderness. Like trees of myrrh and spice we stand, Planted by God's almighty hand; And all the springs in Zion flow, To make the young plantation grow. Awake, O, heavenly wind! And come, Blow on this garden of perfume; Spirit divine! descend and breathe A gracious gale on plants beneath. Make our best spices flow abroad, To entertain our Savior God And faith, and love, and joy appear, And every grace be active here.   November 25, 1880  Today is the birthday of the British political theorist, writer, publisher, civil servant, and gardener Leonard Sidney Woolf. Leonard was the husband of Virginia Woolf. Leonard was the primary gardener and garden designer of Monk's House - although Virginia helped him. Virginia and Leonard lived at the house when they first purchased it in 1919 until their deaths. The garden at Monk's House was a retreat and a place where they could both escape from London’s chaos. Leonard loved to be in the garden gardening. He hated tea roses and floribunda roses. He loved fruit trees like apples and pears, and he sold the fruits to make money. Leonard's devotion to the garden was a source of consternation for Virginia. Leonard spent so much of his time and money on the garden that Virginia famously complained, “We are watering the earth with our money!” Leonard recorded all of his Monk's House garden income and expenditures in a gorgeous dark green and pink ledger book. The first line in the book is dated August 26th, 1919, and he recorded the first gardening work performed by gardener William Dedman. Virginia described Monk's House as "the pride of our hearts.’" In July of 1919, Virginia wrote that gardening or weeding produced "a queer sort of enthusiasm." When Virginia suffered bouts of depression, the garden at Monk's House was where she went to recover and heal. And, since both Virginia and Leonard kept diaries, we know today that the garden was a frequent topic. On September 29, 1919, Virginia wrote: "A week ago, Leonard's wrist and arm broke into a rash. The doctor called it eczema. Then Mrs. Dedman brushed this aside and diagnosed sunflower poisoning. [Leonard] had been uprooting them with bare hands. We have accepted her judgment." One of Virginia's favorite places to write was in the garden at Monk's House. She had a small converted shed that she called her writing lodge. Every morning on her way to the lodge, Virginia walked through the garden. The Monk's House garden was THE place where she wrote some of her most famous works. One story illustrates Leonard's devotion to gardening. In 1939, as the second world war approached, Virginia called for him to come inside to listen to "the lunatic" Hitler on the radio. But Leonard was in the middle of tending to his Iris, and he shouted back: ”I shan’t come. I am planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead.” After Virginia's tragic suicide, Leonard wrote: "I know that Virginia will not come across the garden from the Lodge, and yet I look in that direction for her. I know that she is drowned, and yet I listen for her to come in at the door." And, there were two Elm trees at Monk's House garden that the Woolf's had sweetly named after themselves, “Virginia and Leonard.” Leonard buried Virginia’s ashes under one of those Elms and installed a stone tablet with the last lines from her novel The Waves: “Against you, I fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! The waves crashed on the shore.”    November 25, 1816 Today is the anniversary of the death of one of the great English sculptors, Francis Chantrey. Francis, who sculpted both kings and presidents, was commissioned to sculpt a memorial to two young girls, Ellen-Jane and Marianne Robinson. Ellen-Jane and Marianne had lost their father, Reverend William Robinson when he was in his thirties. In 1813, their mother took them on a trip to Bath. One evening as she was getting ready for bed, Ellen-Jane’s nightgown caught on fire. She died the next day. The following year, the younger daughter, Marianne, got sick and died in London. So, within three years, Mrs. Robinson lost her entire family, and she went to Francis Chantrey and asked him to make a sculpture. In turn, Francis honored her request to recreate a scene seen repeatedly with her girls: they would often fall asleep in each other’s arms. And so it was that in the year he died, Francis created his final masterpiece, “The Sleeping Children”. Francis added a touching last element to their memorial when he sculpted a bouquet of snowdrops in little Marianne’s hands. Seeing this memorial is on my bucket list. The Sleeping Children sculpture is at the Lichfield (“Litchfield”) Cathedral in England.   Unearthed Words So breathing and so beautiful, they seem,    As if to die in youth were but to dream Of spring and flowers! Of flowers? Yet nearer stand    There is a lily in one little hand, So sleeps that child, not faded, though in death,   And seeming still to hear her sister's breath, Take up those flowers that fell   From the dead hand, and sigh a long farewell! Thine, Chantrey, be the fame   That joins to immortality thy name. For these sweet children that so sculptured rest   A sister's head upon a sister's breast Age after age shall pass away,   Nor shall their beauty fade, their forms decay. Mothers, till ruin the round world hath rent,   Shall gaze with tears upon the monument! And fathers sigh, with half-suspended breath:   How sweetly sleep the innocent in death! — William Lisle Bowles, English priest, poet, and critic, The Sleeping Children. Note: This is an excerpt from this hauntingly beautiful poem written in tribute to The Sleeping Children sculpture by Francis Chantrey in memory of Ellen-Jane and Marianne Robinson.   Grow That Garden Library Do-It-Yourself Garden Projects and Crafts by Debbie Wolfe  This book came out in 2019, and the subtitle is 60 Planters, Bird Houses, Lotion Bars, Garlands, and More. In this book, Debbie shares easy projects and beautiful crafts for your garden and home. With Debbie’s step by step instructions, you can make a Bird and Bee Bath, a Flower Press, a Foraged Garland, Herb Napkins Rings, Herb Drying Racks, and Unique Planters. I love Debbie because she wants her readers to use what they have - go and find your home-grown and foraged materials - and make something beautiful with them. Debbie even shows how to make personal and household items that would make excellent gifts: Herbal Lotion Bars, Gardener Hand Scrub, and All-Purpose Thyme Cleaner. If you're a gardener or DIY lover, this book is for you! Loaded with gorgeous photography, Debbie will inspire you to get out in the garden, get creative, and make something with your own two hands. This book is 240 pages of crafts and projects that are totally within reach and are utterly charming with their appealing and practical sensibility. You can get a copy of Do-It-Yourself Garden Projects and Crafts by Debbie Wolfe and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $10.   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart November 25, 1914   On this day, the St. Joseph Gazette wrote a front-page article about the  Romanian-born American soprano Alma Gluck and the headline was “Miss Gluck is Quite a Farmer.” “One would scarcely expect a young and beautiful prima donna who… is recognized the world over as one of the greatest of sopranos, to know much about raising chickens. Nor is it… expected that she be a connoisseur of tomato raising… Standing beside the window of her room at the Hotel Robidoux, [Alma]... told with characteristic enthusiasm of her "farm" at Lake George, where each summer she and Miss Jewell, her companion, spend their vacations." She said, "One year, you know, we decided to raise chickens. Neither of us knew a thing about the creatures, but we bought fifty just fresh from an incubator. Our farmer neighbors told us we should have brooders to keep them at night and advised us to get cheese boxes and line them with cotton batting. We fixed them up cozy as you please and each night stuffed the baby chicks in their beds. But they began soon to die. We couldn’t imagine what was the matter with them. They just grew knock-kneed and drooped over. Our cook decided she would make an examination, and cutting open one of the chicks, what do you suppose she found? It was just lined with cotton batting. The little things had pecked all the cotton from around their beds. After that we hung a feather duster in the brooder, and the chicks hovered each night under that Just as though they had a mother. And later I myself sawed and built a little house for them. We became quite famous gardeners, too. Despite the fact, we knew nothing of such things when we started planting a garden. We raised the best tomatoes grown in that section of the state."   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Escucha: Virginia y Leonard Woolf: Los olmos

In this episode of Travels Through Time the biographer Francesca Wade takes us to the fringes of London’s Bloomsbury, to explore a fascinating generation of poets, writers and publishers who passed through Mecklenburgh Square. In the early decades of the twentieth century the streets and squares of Bloomsbury in inner London were home to a pioneering and provocative generation of writers, poets and artists. Many of these figures would later be celebrated and cherished, but at the time their fortunes were not quite so settled. The transience and fragility of Bloomsbury was captured in a quote by the English novelist Margery Allingham. She called the area, ‘a sort of halfway house. If you lived here you were either going up or coming down.’ This description was particularly appropriate for Mecklenburgh Square, a large residential square on the north eastern edge of inner London. Here, at various important junctures in their lives, lodged five great women: Hilda Doolittle (H.D), Dorothy L Sayers, Jayne Ellen Harrison, Eileen Power and Virginia Woolf. These women and this square are at the heart of Francesca Wade’s new book Square Haunting. In this episode she guides us to Mecklenburgh Square in the year 1917 to meet the poet H.D, the writer Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard. They were all busy with projects and all contending with the fevered atmosphere of the wartime capital, a 'ghastly inferno which thinks and breathes and lives air raids, nothing else.' As DH Lawrence put it, London had ‘perished from being a heart of the world, and became a vortex of broken passions, lusts, hopes, fears and horrors.’ Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars (Faber) Scene One: 44 Mecklenburgh Square, November 1917 - H. D. and D. H. Lawrence in the room while others are out. Or perhaps an evening with them while they're playing charades. Scene Two: Hogarth House, Richmond, April 1917 - to watch the Woolfs bring home their printing press. Scene Three: 4 Gerrard Street, Soho, December 1917. The inaugural meeting of the 1917 Club, founded by Leonard Woolf. Memento: The suitcase of letters from Richard Aldington and D.H. Lawrence to H. D. during the war that was left in the cellar of 44 Mecklenburgh Square and then destroyed --- People / Social Presenter: Peter Moore Guest: Francesca Wade Producers: Maria Nolan/John Hillman Titles: Jon O.

Virginia Woolf was born into intellectual and social aristocracy.  Her father, Leslie Stephen, was an editor and historian.  Her mother was a known and admired beauty, often used as a model for important Pre-Raphaelite painters. Virginia was not sent to school, in accordance with the custom of the times.  She received a splendid education as an autodidact but remained resentful and offended on this account.  Her mother died when she was young prompting her first nervous breakdown.  Virginia took over supervision of the affairs of the household at the age of thirteen. She married Leonard Woolf – an unconventional choice for her.  He was an anti-imperialist, a Jew, and a free-thinker.  From their house in Bloomsbury they began a circle that was hugely influential on British arts and letters and architecture for years.  With a flexible notion of gender preferences, the Bloomsbury group “lived in squares, but loved in triangles.” Leonard and Virginia’s press, Hogarth Publishers, published both non-fiction and fiction, including the first English translations of Freud. Today’s work is one of a number of Virginia’s writings which features a looking glass, and numerous scholars have chosen this image as a focal point for understanding her work. “The Lady in the Looking Glass:  A Reflection” by Virginia Woolf…we begin….

Today we celebrate the Spaniard who brought the pineapple and coffee to Hawaii.  We'll learn about the man who gardened at Monks House so much it would cause fights with his wife. We'll honor the Japanese American Landscape Architect, who designed many of our Modern Urban Public Spaces and the man who came up with a new kind of berry in the heart of Napa Vally in the 1920s. We'll hear some thoughts about the end of Fall from various poets and writers. We Grow That Garden Library with one of the most beautiful and sophisticated books on our favorite houseplant: the orchid. I'll talk about the five microgreens you should grow for the Holidays to impress your guests, and then we'll add things up with some charming advice on starting a Walking Club from 1890.    But first, let's catch up on a few recent events.   Vote For the Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights | USA Today | @USATODAY It's time to vote for your favorite - The Best Botanical Garden Holiday Lights @USATODAY Readers' Choice Awards. During the winter season, a different kind of color lights up botanical gardens across the United States. Instead of spring flowers, visitors find twinkling holiday lights, often accompanied by a range of other holiday activities and events. Which botanical garden puts on the best seasonal lights show? You decide by voting once per day until polls close on Monday, December 2at noon ET. The ten winning gardens will be announced on 10Best.com on Friday, December 13 The current standings are: 1. A Longwood Christmas - Longwood Gardens - Kennett Square, Penn. 2. Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden - Richmond, Va. 3. Gardens Aglow - Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens - Boothbay, Maine 4. Nights of a Thousand Candles - Brookgreen Gardens - Murrells Inlet, S.C. 5. Million Bulb Walk/Dominion Energy Garden of Lights - Norfolk Botanical Garden - Va. 6. Illumination: Tree Lights - Morton Arboretum - Chicago 7. Lights in Bloom - Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, Fla. 8. River of Lights - ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden - Albuquerque 9. Fantasy in Lights - Callaway Gardens - Pine Mountain, Ga 10. Illuminations - Botanica - Wichita, Kan.     Vancouver's Seawall Proves Strong Infrastructure Can Be Pretty, Too | CityLab @CityLab @zachmortice Zach Mortice wrote this great article in City Lab about an artistic seawall barrier. Gardeners can be inspired by taking the functional and making it so much more. Fencing, borders, raised beds, etc. don't need to be eyesores.      Now, if you'd like to check out these curated articles for yourself, you're in luck - because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There’s no need to take notes or track down links - the next time you're on Facebook, just search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.       Brevities   #OTD  Today is the birthday of the Spanish adventurer and botanist known as Hawaii's Original Farmer, Francisco de Paula Marín, who was born on this day in 1774. By the time Marin was in his early twenties, he had already made his way to Honolulu, Hawaii. It would be his home for the rest of his life. Marin became a friend and advisor to King Kamehameha I, who consolidated all the Hawaiian Islands during his rule. Marin served in the Kamehameha Dynasty in various capacities all through his life, but he is best remembered for his work in horticulture. In 1813, Marin grew the first pineapple in Honolulu - the Hawaiian word for pineapple translates to "foreign fruit." Two years later, Marin planted the first Hawaiian vineyard using vines of the Mission grape. And, in 1817, with the approval of King Kamehameha, Marin planted the first coffee seeds in Hawaii.       #OTD   Today is the birthday of the man who designed Monks House garden Leonard Sidney Woolf who was born on this day in 1880. Woolf was the husband of Virginia Woolf. Leonard was the primary gardener and garden designer of Monks House - although Virginia helped him. Virginia and Leonard lived at the house from the time they first purchased it in 1919 until their deaths. The garden at Monks Hosue was a retreat and a place that they could both escape from the chaos of London. Leonard loved to be in the garden gardening. He hated tea roses and floribunda roses. But, he loved fruit trees like apple and pears, and he sold the fruits to make money. Leonard's devotion to the garden was a source of consternation for Virginia. Leonard spent so most of his time and his money on the garden. Virginia famously complained, “We are watering the earth with our money!” Leonard recorded all of his Monks House garden income and expenditures in a gorgeous dark green and pink ledger book. The first line in the book is dated August 26th, 1919, and he recorded the first gardening work performed by gardener William Dedman. Virginia described Monks House as "the pride of our hearts.’" In July of 1919, she wrote that gardening or weeding produced "a queer sort of enthusiasm which made me say this is happiness." When Virginia suffered bouts of depression, the garden at Monks House was the place she went to recover and heal. Since both Virginia and Leonard kept diaries, the garden was a frequent topic. On September 29, 1919, Virginia wrote: "A week ago, Leonard's wrist & arm broke into a rash. The Dr called it eczema. Then Mrs. Dedman brushed this aside & diagnosed sunflower poisoning. [Leonard] had been uprooting them with bare hands. We have accepted her judgment."    One of Virginia's favorite places to write was in the garden at Monks House. She had a small converted shed that she called her writing lodge. Every morning on her way to the lodge, Virginia walked through the garden. The Monks House garden was THE place where she wrote some of her most famous works. One story is often shared to illustrate Leonard's devotion to gardening. In 1939, as the second world war approached, Virginia called for him to come inside to listen to "the lunatic" Hitler on the radio. But Leonard was in the middle of tending to his Iris, and he shouted back: ”I shan’t come. I am planting iris, and they will be flowering long after he is dead.”   After Virginia's tragic suicide, Leonard wrote: "I know that V. will not come across the garden from the Lodge, and yet I look in that direction for her. I know that she is drowned, and yet I listen for her to come in at the door."   At Monks House garden, there were two Elm trees that the Woolf's had sweetly named after themselves, “Virginia and Leonard.” Leonard buried Virginia’s ashes under one of those Elms and installed a stone tablet with the last lines from her novel The Waves: “Against you, I fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! The waves crashed on the shore.”         #OTD   Today is the birthday of the Japanese-American landscape architect who designed some of the country’s best-known industrial parks, urban spaces, and campuses, Hideo Sasaki, who was born on this day in 1919. Sasaki was born in Reedley, Calif., and grew up on his family’s truck farm in the San Joaquin Valley. During WWII, Sasaki and his family suffered at an internment camp in Arizona, where Sasaki worked in beet fields.  As a very bright student, Sasaki went on to study at the University of Illinois and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Sasaki lived in the Boston area, where he taught at Harvard for more than 20 years, chairing its landscape architecture department from 1958 to 1968, and he founded his Sasaki Associates firm. By 1993, more than a third of all landscape architecture professors had been trained by Sasaki. Sasaki created industrial parks for big companies like John Deere and Upjohn. He also designed urban spaces like Boston’s Copley Square, New York’s Washington Square Village and the St. Louis Gateway Mall. In 1971, Sasaki became the first recipient of the American Society of Landscape Architects medal. Sasaki died of cancer back in August of 2000.     #OTD Today is the anniversary of the death of the plant hybridizer Rudolph Boysen who died on this day in 1950. In the 1910s and '20s, Boysen had been playing around with plant genetics. He worked on an 18-acre farm owned by John Lubbens in Napa Valley. On one June morning, Boysen took a walk along a creek bank to inspect some of his new berry creations. Boysen was astonished when he saw that one of the vines bore fruit that was almost two inches long. The fruit would become known to the world as the Boysenberry. Boysenberries are similar to blackberries but have a larger, juicier, and sweeter fruit. The Boysenberry is a cross between the loganberry, the raspberry, and the blackberry. In 1927, Boysen advertised them as "the sensation of the 20th Century."  The grower, Walter Knott, had been looking for new varieties of berries, and when he got some of Boysen's plants, he knew it was the berry he had been looking for over the past decade. Knott gave Boysen credit by naming the plant in his honor. But, Knott managed to make an empire for himself with the proceeds - establishing the world-renown Knotts Berry Farm. As for Boysen, he never earned a dime from the Boysenberry.       Unearthed Words   "The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear." - William Cullen Bryant   "She calls it "stick season," this slow disrobing of summer,  leaf by leaf, till the bores of tall trees, rattle and scrape in the wind." - Eric Pinder, Author   "November comes  And November goes,  With the last red berries  And the first white snows. With night coming early,  And dawn coming late,  And ice in the bucket  And frost by the gate. The fires burn  And the kettles sing,  And earth sinks to rest  Until next spring." - Elizabeth Coatsworth     Today's book recommendation: Orchid Modern by Marc Hachadourian Marc Hachadourian is the senior curator of the incredible orchid collection at the New York Botanical Garden, and his book Modern Orchidsis outstanding. The subtitle for the book is Living and Designing with the World’s Most Elegant Houseplants - so true, Marc. You can read for yourself in Marc's book about the history of orchids and all the different types of orchids, but most of us simply want to know the answer to one or two questions like 'how do I keep my orchids happy and healthy?' and/or 'how do I get them to rebloom?' To Marc, the answer to those questions is pretty straightforward. In general, we simply need to understand the growing conditions that orchids prefer. Marc teaches us what orchids like by asking us the following six questions: Does the location have natural sunlight? How strong is the sunlight? How long does the location, receive natural light each day? What temperatures will there be throughout the year? In the daytime? In the night? Is the air constantly dry or doesn't have some moisture And finally, how often will I water and care for the plants? If you have an orchid lover in your family, this is the book for them. It would make a lovely Christmas present. In addition to learning how to care for the orchids, you will get Marc's top picks for orchids, and he has 120 of them. And, Marc also shares some pretty amazing projects that will add to the decor of your home, including terrariums, a wreath, and a kokedama. There's also a project that teaches us to make an orchid bonsai tree that is absolutely stunning. All of Marc's crafts and projects are a level up from something you would typically see in a gardening book. Marc provides a level of sophistication and elegance with his work that I just have not seen in a garden book in some time. When I can look at a project and learn something - whether it's a new tool or new product that I can source for working with my own floral arrangements - I'm so appreciative. So, hats off to Marc for tackling a subject that most of us feel we could use more help with (orchids) and by not dumbing it down. Overall, Marc shares super-helpful pro-insights and modern options for incorporating our most beloved houseplant: orchids.       Today's Garden Chore Start sowing some microgreens for the holiday season.  There is nothing like a microgreens garden to satisfy your winter gardening needs and at that same time, growing those fresh, nutrient-dense, garden to table greens that you can grow in the comfort of your own home. For most gardeners, I think the biggest challenge with growing microgreens is learning what dishes can be enhanced with them. Btw, microgreens are just the little seedlings that pop up after you plant the seeds. So, what five microgreens will I be planting in time for Christmas?  Arugula - this is the perfect topping for your Christmas Lasagna or bruschetta — and it offers the same amount of calcium as spinach. Basil - the PERFECT addition to many tart Christmas drinks. Basil is an anti-inflammatory. Radishes - wonderful, fresh addition to salads and even stuffing. As tasty as a full-grown radish. Vitamin C + Protein. If you like radishes, you'll love radish microgreens. Cilantro - for soups and stews. Super easy to grow. Lutein and Beta-Caratein Powerhouse. Pea - excellent for garnishing any egg dish and FANTASTIC for adding to mashed potatoes. 7x Vitamin C of blueberries. Onion Sprouts - use just as you would an onion. The sprouts taste just like an onion.       Something Sweet  Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart On this day in 1890, The San Francisco Call shared an article with this headline: Walking Clubs. Lazy People Have No Interest in the Subject. Here's an excerpt: "You may have heard of a hundred kinds of clubs, ... and you may belong half a dozen and yet have never heard of a walking club.  If so, you have missed one of the best of all. Autumn is here, and the bracing air makes you feel like exercising briskly. The leaves are turning to gold and scarlet, the nuts are nearly ripe, and the squirrels are scampering through the trees, chattering challenges with saucy eyes. Now is the time to organize walking clubs. A number of bright, boys and girls might get up such a club in an hour, No initiation, no fees. A President perhaps and maybe a Secretary to put down anything wonderful that may happen during the walks. The only business of the club will be to settle where they will walk. No constitution, no by-laws. Take any morning when it does not rain, see that your feet are shod strongly and comfortably, and walk as many miles as you can without fatigue. Hold up your head, throw your chest forward, and walk. Don't mince along or shuffle, but strike a long, swinging step from the hip joints. Have a destination. Select a farmhouse or a country inn three miles out. Manage to get there in time for dinner or supper, and after eating, rest one hour. Then come home by a different route. At night take a bath and go to bed. Take a walk once the first week, twice the second week, and keep that up for six weeks. Then walk three times a week, if the weather permits. Begin with a six-mile walk and lengthen it to ten. Keep up these walks during the autumn and winter — in fact, up to next summer. Get a number to go, and keep on enlisting new members. Seek a new route for every walk, if such a thing is possible. If not, add variety by dividing the club into two detachments, which shall meet at some previously agreed upon place to lunch. Then "swap routes" for the return trip, or return all together by a third route. There are a hundred ways of preventing monotony. Incite members to discover new points of interest and get an amateur botanist or geologist to join you. Study natural history as you walk, discuss, argue, reason, but don't quarrel. This is the way to be healthy and wise. Never mind the wealth— that will come of itself."       Thanks for listening to the daily gardener, and remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."  

Hazel, Jennie and host Philippa explore the art of travel writing with the acclaimed author and biographer Sara Wheeler, and Barnaby Rogerson of the well-loved independent publisher Eland Books. Buckle-up and join us on an audio adventure that takes in a coach trip around England, an Antarctic sojourn, a hairy incident involving a Victorian lady and her trusty tweed skirt and a journey across Russia in the footprints of its literary greats, with nods to Bruce Chatwin, Isabella Bird, Norman Lewis, Martha Gellhorn and Patrick Leigh Fermor along the way. And to bring us back down to earth, there’s the usual round-up of news from back home in Hoxton Square and plenty of recommendations for reading off the beaten track. The digits in brackets following each listing refer to the minute and second they are mentioned. (Episode duration: 39 minutes; 01 seconds) Books Mentioned Slightly Foxed Issue 62 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/slightly-foxed-issue-62-published-1-june-2019/) (2:05) The Fountain Overflows (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/rebecca-west-the-fountain-overflows/) , Volume I of Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’ (2:36) Something Wholesale (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/something-wholesale-no-41/) , Eric Newby (4:20) Love and War in the Apennines (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eric-newby-love-and-war-in-the-apennines/) , Eric Newby (4:24) Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-terra-incognita/) , Sara Wheeler (8:00) A Dragon Apparent (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/norman-lewis-dragon-apparent/) , Norman Lewis (11:49) In Patagonia (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/bruce-chatwin-in-patagonia/) , Bruce Chatwin. Sara Wheeler abbreviates the opening line, which reads in full: ‘In my grandmother’s dining-room there was a glass-fronted cabinet and in the cabinet was a piece of skin.’ (18:39) Growing: Seven Years in Ceylon (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-growing/) and The Village in the Jungle (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leonard-woolf-village-in-the-jungle/) , Leonard Woolf (19:50) Travels with Charley (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/steinbeck-travels-with-charley/) , John Steinbeck (20:35) Semi Invisible Man: The Life of Norman Lewis (https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/julian-evans/semi-invisible-man/9780330427081) , Julian Evans (21:09) Naples ‘44 (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/naples-44-norman-lewis/) , Norman Lewis (21:31) Passage to Juneau (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/jonathan-raban-passage-to-juneau/) , Jonathan Raban (22:24) Mud and Stars (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/sara-wheeler-mud-and-stars/) , Sara Wheeler, published 4 July 2019 (23:27) The Saddest Pleasure (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/moritz-thomsen-saddest-pleasure/) , Moritz Thomsen (24:29) A Time of Gifts (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-time-gifts-adventures-harriet/) and Between the Woods and the Water (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/leigh-fermor-patrick-woods-water-adventures-harriet/) , Patrick Leigh Fermor (25:16) Arabs (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/tim-mackintosh-smith-arabs/) , Tim Mackintosh-Smith (33:32) Lost in Translation (https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/eva-hoffman-lost-translation/) , Eva Hoffman (34:31) A Woman in the Polar Night, Christiane Ritter is currently out of print. The edition with an introduction by Sara Wheeler will be published by Pushkin Press (https://www.pushkinpress.com/) in November 2019 (35:52) Related Slightly Foxed Articles & Illustrations Mood Music (https://foxedquarterly.com/rebecca-west-saga-of-the-century-literary-review/) , Rebecca Willis on Rebecca West’s ‘Saga of the Century’, Issue 62 (2:22) Ire and Irritability (https://foxedquarterly.com/jane-austen-sense-and-sensibility-literary-review/) , Pauline Melville on Sense and Sensibility, Issue 62 (2:56)  Travelling Fearlessly (https://foxedquarterly.com/colin-thubron-travel-writing-literary-review/) , Maggie Fergusson interviews Colin Thubron in Issue 58 (20:26) A Great Adventure (https://foxedquarterly.com/patrick-leigh-fermor-great-adventure/) , Andy Merrills on Patrick Leigh Fermor, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water, Issue 38 (25:24) In Search of Home (https://foxedquarterly.com/eva-hoffman-lost-translation-literary-review/) , Sue Gee on Lost in Translation in Issue 55 (34:31) Other Links   The Slightly Foxed Podcast website page of episodes and reviews (https://foxedquarterly.com/category/podcast/) (1:00) Independent Bookshop Week 2019 (https://indiebookshopweek.org.uk/) , 15-22 June. Follow #IndieBookshopWeek and @booksaremybag online (3:38) Eland Books (https://www.travelbooks.co.uk/) (11:39) Katy MacMillan-Scott, Adventures for Harriet (https://www.adventuresforharriet.co.uk/) : Travelling from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul (31:45) Lodestars Anthology (https://www.lodestarsanthology.co.uk/) , selected issues available to buy from Slightly Foxed here (https://foxedquarterly.com/products/lodestars-anthology-travel-magazine/) (37:41) Rucksack Magazine (https://rucksackmag.com/) (37:58) Music and sound effects Opening music: Preludio from Violin Partita No.3 in E Major by Bach Reading music: Lost Memories courtesy of FreeSfx.co.uk (http://www.freesfx.co.uk) The Slightly Foxed Podcast is hosted by Philippa Lamb and produced by Podcastable (https://www.podcastable.co.uk/)

Join Annabelle and Gillian for the last episode in season 1 as they ramble across the South Downs in Sussex to the home of English authors, Virginia and Leonard Woolf. Dispatch to a Friend Website: https://www.dispatchtoafriend.com

Society is the happiness of life (stare insieme è la felicità). Il verso di Shakespeare descrive alla perfezione il valore e il senso che i protagonisti del circolo di Bloomsbury – Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen, J.M. Keynes, Lytton Strachey, per nominarne alcuni – attribuiscono all’idea di “comunità”. I giovani di Bloomsbury escono di slancio dall’epoca vittoriana opponendo all’esaltazione dell’egoismo borghese e del conformismo sociale il valore creativo di chi nella comunità e nell’utopia trova la forza per creare nuove forme di conoscenza e soprattutto nuove forme di vita. Insieme questi giovani uomini e donne reinventano la loro esistenza in assoluta libertà intellettuale e sessuale rispetto a codici esausti e inerti. La loro è una delle proposte più ardite dell’intero Novecento, a cui ancora oggi ispirarsi per recuperare il senso profondo della libertà individuale. E del bene comune.

February 4, 2018 Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 ESV PRIMARY SOURCES: Don Carson, Editor, The New Bible Commentary ESV Study Bible IVP Bible Background Commentary Cicero, How to Grow Old Zack Eswine, Recovering Eden Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning David Gibson, Living Life Backward The Humanist Manifestos of 1933, 1973, and 2003 The Indigo Girls, ‘Closer to Fine’ Timothy Keller, Sermons on Ecclesiastes Jeff Myers, A Table in the Mist Tommy Nelson, A Life Well Lived Plato, Phaedrus Philip Ryken, Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot Francis Schaeffer, No Little People, No Little Places Matthew West, ‘More’ P. Wilson, The International Theory of Leonard Woolf

January 28, 2018 Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 ESV PRIMARY SOURCES: Don Carson, Editor, The New Bible Commentary ESV Study Bible IVP Bible Background Commentary Cicero, How to Grow Old Zack Eswine, Recovering Eden Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning David Gibson, Living Life Backward The Humanist Manifestos of 1933, 1973, and 2003 The Indigo Girls, ‘Closer to Fine’ Timothy Keller, Sermons on Ecclesiastes Jeff Myers, A Table in the Mist Tommy Nelson, A Life Well Lived Plato, Phaedrus Philip Ryken, Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot Francis Schaeffer, No Little People, No Little Places Matthew West, ‘More’ P. Wilson, The International Theory of Leonard Woolf

January 28, 2018 Ecclesiastes 1:12-18 ESV PRIMARY SOURCES: Don Carson, Editor, The New Bible Commentary ESV Study Bible IVP Bible Background Commentary Cicero, How to Grow Old Zack Eswine, Recovering Eden Victor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning David Gibson, Living Life Backward The Humanist Manifestos of 1933, 1973, and 2003 The Indigo Girls, ‘Closer to Fine’ Timothy Keller, Sermons on Ecclesiastes Jeff Myers, A Table in the Mist Tommy Nelson, A Life Well Lived Plato, Phaedrus Philip Ryken, Ecclesiastes: Why Everything Matters Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot Francis Schaeffer, No Little People, No Little Places Matthew West, ‘More’ P. Wilson, The International Theory of Leonard Woolf

Elleke Boehmer, Dominique Davies, Charne Lavery and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay discuss a special issue, due to publish in March 2015 and guest-edited by Elleke Boehmer, on Leonard Woolf’s novel “The Village in the Jungle”. Posted May 2014.

Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the colonial periphery and back again, exploring all that it held for him, including the Bloomsbury group and, of course, Virginia herself.

Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle. She demonstrates the way in which the novel is heavily inflected with these traditions and employs them in interesting and significant ways.

This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. Hermione Lee and Anna Snaith build on the intersections of Leonard's work with Virginia Woolf's novels, while Elleke Boehmer and Nisha Manocha trace the Conradian elements of his writing. David Trotter explains why he understands Woolf's novel to be a 'primitivist' text, while Susheila Nasta brings Woolf's interactions with E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand and others to the fore.

Adam Barrows is a Professor in the English Department at Carleton University in Ottawa. The focus of his research for the last eight years has been the relationship between time, literary modernism, and imperialism. His background is in the history of science and his theoretical approach to literature is largely historical materialist, drawing heavily on the Western Marxist tradition, from the Frankfurt School to Raymond Williams and Henri Lefebvre. Growing out of his interest in twentieth-century British literature he led a seminar on the Hogarth Press, as he puts it "one of the most important venues for the production and dissemination of the experimental writings that would come to define the modernist literary canon. Their express purpose was to enable the publication of works that would otherwise never have found a home in the conventional publishing industry, including their own. In addition to publishing such central works of literary modernism as T.S. Eliot's Poems (1919) and The Waste Land (1923), Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922) and Katherine Mansfield's Prelude (1918), the Hogarth Press was also committed to the publication of radically dissident anti-imperialist works such as Leonard Woolf's own Imperialism and Civilization (1928), Lord Oliver's The Anatomy of African Misery (1928), Edward John Thompson's The Other Side of the Medal (1925) and C.L.R. James's The Case for West-Indian Self Government (1933)." We met at his Carleton University office to talk about Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and the history and output of the Hogarth Press.