<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mark writes, "And does a review in the prestigious NY Review of Books about three major recent exhibitions, plus one of many fictionalized versions of the Stephen sisters' lives, and one of myriad recent critical works on Woolf etc. really provide evidence that 'the attention paid to the Bloomsbury Group seems to be waning on both sides of the Atlantic’ ?"<br class=""><br class="">There’s even attention being paid to Woolf in St Ives! A Woolf-themed exhibit is opening on January 20, 2018 at the Tate St Ives, which is undergoing expansion. The focus: "The life and writings of English author Virginia Woolf will be the focal point of our exhibition of women artists since the 1850s.”<div class=""><br class="">Link:<br class=""><a href="http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf" class="">http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/virginia-woolf</a><br class=""><br class="">I found it interesting, though not surprising, that the description of the exhibition neglects to mention a connection between <i class="">To the Lighthouse</i>—the one novel named in the description—and Godrevy Lighthouse, simply noting that "Woolf spent her holidays as a child” in St Ives. <br class=""><br class="">Best, <br class="">Annette<div class=""><br class="">On May 1, 2017, at 8:55 AM, Mark Hussey <mhussey@verizon.net> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">"the chilly, concealing shade of her younger sister, Virginia Woolf"--what a<br class="">vixen that Virginia was!<br class=""><br class="">"From Parmar's pages Virginia emerges as an aggressive, often hostile,<br class="">malicious sibling, and a compulsive flirt. Although based on a huge inquiry<br class="">into her letters, diaries, and biographies, Parmar's Virginia is a fictional<br class="">character who is "raving mad and running all over the house shouting<br class="">nonsense." As Trump would say, "people are saying..." Not me, of course,<br class="">but "some say...". A "huge inquiry" (whatever that means, beyond reading<br class="">what's there) comes to the same conclusion as so many British patriarchal<br class="">critics and laddish writers have done about VW. I am shocked. Shocked!<br class=""><br class="">And does a review in the prestigious NY Review of Books about three major<br class="">recent exhibitions, plus one of many fictionalized versions of the Stephen<br class="">sisters' lives, and one of myriad recent critical works on Woolf etc. really<br class="">provide evidence that "the attention paid to the Bloomsbury Group seems to<br class="">be waning on both sides of the Atlantic"?<br class=""><br class="">Stay tuned.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">-----Original Message-----<br class="">From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+mhussey=verizon.net@lists.osu.edu] On<br class="">Behalf Of Steve Posin<br class="">Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2017 10:18 PM<br class="">To: vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br class="">Subject: [Vwoolf] The Painter and the Novelist | by Paul Levy | The New York<br class="">Review of Books<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2017/05/11/vanessa-bell-virginia-woolf-paint<br class="">er-and-novelist/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Easternization%20Bell%2<br class="">0and%20Woolf%20Duterte&utm_content=NYR%20Easternization%20Bell%20and%20Woolf<br class="">%20Duterte+CID_fb747f5149602021aba777a59dd04edd&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_te<br class="">rm=The%20Painter%20and%20the%20Novelist<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Steve Posin<br class="">415 596 8125<br class="">Via IPhone<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Vwoolf mailing list<br class="">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br class="">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Vwoolf mailing list<br class="">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br class="">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>