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<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hello there</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">If you are in London in late January, you may be interested in the following:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Virginia Woolf Winter Walk</b>: ‘</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Oxford Street Tide’</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> — from Oxford Street to Bloomsbury on Saturday 25 January 2025, 10am.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">A Winter Walk on Virginia Woolf’s birthday and to celebrate the publication of the pamphlet</span><span style="font-family:Aptos;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nightbirdpress.com/product-page/virginia-woolf-in-the-city-oxford-street-tide__;!!KGKeukY!1lapOQUcFizZ-JMHZSrFKPkfPFDz05nTWIf6MuOjL28zeTuSI0m9898U_ZhXuYLTQ-uv2ZjE_Kun7pYR_Jz00C9yhNA$" target="_blank">Virginia Woolf in the City: Oxford Street Tide</a></span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nightbirdpress.com/__;!!KGKeukY!1lapOQUcFizZ-JMHZSrFKPkfPFDz05nTWIf6MuOjL28zeTuSI0m9898U_ZhXuYLTQ-uv2ZjE_Kun7pYR_Jz0DsTznKo$" target="_blank">Night Bird Press </a> </span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Louisa Albani, 2025). Liz Ison will lead participants on a walk through the bustling area around Oxford Street to the quieter Bloomsbury streets ending in Tavistock Square Gardens. The walk is inspired by Louisa’s pamphlet which is in turn a reimagining of Woolf’s essay </span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Oxford Street Tide</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We will go in search of the London streets and places that served as literary inspiration for Virginia Woolf as well as the shops that she liked to frequent when she was in need of a new hat or pair of gloves, or some books to read.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> “The garishness and gaudiness of the great rolling ribbon of Oxford Street has its fascination. It is like the pebbly bed of a river whose stones are forever washed by a bright stream. Everything glitters and twinkles.”</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">From Virginia Woolf’s</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Oxford Street Tide</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Participants will receive a signed copy of the Night Bird Press pamphlet</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> Virginia Woolf in the City: Oxford Street Tide</span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. You can book your place on </span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nightbirdpress.com/product-page/virginia-woolf-winter-walk-oxford-street-tide-from-oxford-street-to-bloomsb__;!!KGKeukY!1lapOQUcFizZ-JMHZSrFKPkfPFDz05nTWIf6MuOjL28zeTuSI0m9898U_ZhXuYLTQ-uv2ZjE_Kun7pYR_Jz0pp1X9rc$" target="_blank">Night Bird Press</a></span><span style="font-family:Lato,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> website. Tickets are £30 per person.</span></p></div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nightbirdpress.com/product-page/virginia-woolf-winter-walk-oxford-street-tide-from-oxford-street-to-bloomsb__;!!KGKeukY!1lapOQUcFizZ-JMHZSrFKPkfPFDz05nTWIf6MuOjL28zeTuSI0m9898U_ZhXuYLTQ-uv2ZjE_Kun7pYR_Jz0pp1X9rc$" style="font-family:cormorantgaramond-light,cormorantgaramond,"cormorant garamond",serif;font-size:15px" target="_blank">Virginia Woolf Winter Walk ticket purchase link</a></div><div><br></div><div>Just a reminder that the VWSGB has its Annual Birthday Lecture in Bloomsbury in the afternoon - so members or non-members might like to make a day of it and take part in the morning walk as well. </div><div><br></div><div>I have waited over 4 years to find an opportunity to publish this pamphlet - and am so happy that it is happening in the year of the 100th anniversary of the publication of <i>Mrs Dalloway</i>. Mark Hussey, whose '<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond;font-style:italic">Mrs Dalloway’: Biography of a Novel </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">will be published by Manchester University Press in May next year, has contributed a wonderful piece to the pamphlet, which will also include Derek Ryan's piece on Virginia Woolf, Bloomsbury and bookshops.</font><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Garamond"> </span></div><div><br></div><div>If you have any questions, please do let me know. </div><div><br></div><div>With my best wishes</div><div><br></div><div>Louisa</div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b>Louisa Amelia Albani</b></div><div>Artist and small press publisher</div><div><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.nightbirdpress.com/__;!!KGKeukY!1lapOQUcFizZ-JMHZSrFKPkfPFDz05nTWIf6MuOjL28zeTuSI0m9898U_ZhXuYLTQ-uv2ZjE_Kun7pYR_Jz0DsTznKo$" target="_blank">Night Bird Press</a></div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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