Open 1 April to 31 October 2009, Wed and Sat, 2.00–5.30 pm. £3.80 admission, child £1.90, family £9.50. Reduction for gropups, but if 10 or more, please book at least 4 weeks in advance. Phone: 01323 870 001 (c/o Alfriston Clergy House), or see the National Trust web page.

 

• Virginia Woolf at the University of Essex

The series ‘The Afterlives of Virginia Woolf: Reading Woolf in Literature, Visual Arts, and Theatre’ comprises talks, screenings, workshops, rehearsed readings, conversations, and many other types of engagement with Woolf’s ‘lives’ and ‘afterlives’ on the page, stage, and screen. All the events are free and open to public, as Essex is going Woolfian!
Wednesday 13 May 2009: Sally Potter in Conversation, 5–7pm, Lakeside Theatre, chaired by Professor Marina Warner, followed at 7pm by a screening of Sally Potter’s Yes (2004).
Friday 29 May 2009, University of Essex Senate Room: 2pm–3.30pm Professor Hermione Lee (Oxford University) on ‘Woolf and Drama’; 4.30pm Kristin Hutchinson in Katie Mitchell's Waves; reading and discussion chaired by Dr Clare Finburgh.

 

• IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF VIRGINIA WOOLF IN PROVENCE
Trip to Cassis and Marseilles, Thursday 10–Sunday 13 September 2009, organised by Michael Barker for a group of 10 to 20 Virginia Woolf Society Members.  Provisional cost: £495 (single-room supplement £55) – 2009 price schedules awaited – to include return flights from London, three nights B&B in two-star hotels, three dinners and local travel.  (If you arrange your own travel to and from Cassis: £395 + single-room supplement if required.) For detailed schedule and description of the area, email Wendy Grierson.

 

• 'Woolf and the City', Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf
4–7 June 2009, Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus. Enquiries to: Anne E. Fernald, Dept of English, Fordham University, 113 W 60th St., New York, NY 10023, USA; email: fernald@fordham.edu.  For queries about the conference, please contact Anne Fernald's graduate assistant Sarah Cornish at sarahcornish@gmail.com. See Fordham University website.

 

• ‘Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913–2008’
Touring exhibition of photographs from Vanity Fair magazine at the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (12 June–30 August 2009). 

 

• 'Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of The Omega Workshops 1913–19'
18 June–20 September 2009 , Courtauld Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN. At the heart of the show will be the Courtauld’s unique holding of designs from the Omega Workshops. Open daily 10.00 am to 6.00 pm, admission £5 (concessions £4), includes entrance to all temporary exhibitions and displays. Free for under 18s, full-time UK students, staff of UK universities, registered unwaged, Friends of The Courtauld, disabled person's helper. Free to everyone on Monday until 2.00 pm (excluding public holidays). Enquiries: 020 7848 0220 or see the Courtauld web page.

 

Guided walk led by Rachel Kolsky, Saturday 27 June 2009, 10.30am, £8, advance booking essential from The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University, 25 Old Castle Street, London E1 7NT. Tel. 020 7320 2222. See website for further information.

 

18 July 2009, 11.00 am–2.30 pm. A guided country walk of about five miles with some steep and unmade paths.

     From Rodmell Village, we will follow the South Downs Way, turning into the picturesque village of Southease to which Virginia walked to post her letters when she lived at Asham. She wrote an amusing account of a walk taken here with Leonard and the Webbs. The road leads to the bridge over the river Ouse where Virginia's stick was found after she drowned. We will follow the river for about a mile, past water meadows that Virginia walked through almost daily, then back to Rodmell Village Hall for lunch at about 1.00 pm. Afterwards people may choose to visit Monks House, which is open to the public in the afternoon (entrance not included).

 

• VW Miscellany Special Issue

Professor Maggie Humm is inviting article submissions on the subject of Woolf and copyright / intellectual property issues for a Special Issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany. The closing date for submissions is 31 August 2009 and publication will be in spring 2010. For enquiries, please contact Prof Humm on M.Humm@uel.ac.uk.  

 

• 'G. F. Watts: Victorian Visionary'

Philadelphia, 27–30 December 2009. Contact: bkscott@mail.sdsu or Bonnie Kime Scott, President IVWS, Dept. of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA 92182-6030, USA.