VINTAGE WOOLF

Born on this day in 1882, Virginia Woolf is one of the best loved and most admired writers of the twentieth century.

We are excited to share our latest Vintage Woolf Classics, including some previously unseen covers.

Typescripts eight and nine of “Time Passes” section from Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse. (via violentwavesofemotion)

from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf’s dedication of “Night And Day” to her sister, Vanessa Bell.

amandaonwriting:

Breaking down the real fan bases for The Great Gatsby, Mrs Dalloway & Lolita

“The woman’s poised, serene appearance is belied only by her hair. She has struggled to reign it in, but like her restless, unfathomable thoughts, it refuses to be tamed”

juliettetang:

“But to continue the story of my professional experiences. I made one pound ten and six by my first review; and I bought a Persian cat with the proceeds. Then I grew ambitious. A Persian cat is all very well, I said; but a Persian cat is not enough. I must have a motor car. And it was thus that I became a novelist—for it is a very strange thing that people will give you a motor car if you will tell them a story. It is a still stranger thing that there is nothing so delightful in the world as telling stories. It is far pleasanter than writing reviews of famous novels.” —Virginia Woolf, Women and Writing

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Best Author-on-Author Insults in History

Virginia Woolf on James Joyce: [Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling: How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
H. G. Wells on George Bernard Shaw: An idiot child screaming in a hospital.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen: Miss Austen’s novels . . . seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway: He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
W. H. Auden on Robert Browning: I don’t think Robert Browning was very good in bed. His wife probably didn’t care for him very much. He snored and had fantasies about twelve-year-old girls.
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

irisblasi:

The only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf’s voice.

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