February 2012
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Moving Dangerously: Women and Travel, 1850-1950 →
A two-day international and interdisciplinary conference, held at Newcastle University, UK, from 13-14 April 20120. The conference explores the changing relationship of women and travel across key moments in modernity, such the First World War and its effects on women’s independence, the developments in British Imperial activity, and the boom in rail, air and sea travel. The conference aims to...
December 2011
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“‘You are late.’ Late, late with forest edges to everything.”
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H.D., HERmione
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October 2011
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“It seemed to her now that she wanted many more things than the love of one human...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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September 2011
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“Still, there were moments when she realized that her existence, though...”
– jean rhys, quartet (1928), p. 10.
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The Modernism Lab →
The Modernism Lab is a virtual space dedicated to collaborative research into the roots of literary modernism. We hope, by a process of shared investigation, to describe the emergence of modernism out of a background of social, political, and existential ferment. The project begins with the period 1914-1926, from the outbreak of the first world war to the full-blown emergence of English...
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“Still there are things about writing I think of & want to tell Katherine…I...”
– Virginia Woolf, on Katherine Mansfield, from a diary entry dated January 16th, 1923 (a week after KM’s death)
August 2011
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July 2011
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“… shadow seeks shadow,
then both leaf
and leaf-shadow are lost.”
– H. D., from “Evening” (via proustitute)
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“There is so much to do and I do so little. Life would be almost perfect here if...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks (via katherine-mansfield)
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May 2011
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“Whose fault is it that we are so isolated—that we have no real life—that...”
– Katherine Mansfield, May 15, 1915
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“She was mapping out for herself a deep-down life in which emotions ceased their...”
– elizabeth bowen, the hotel (1927), p.66.
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“It’s the spring I have in my mind to describe; just to make this note—that one...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 10 April 1920
(via proustitute)
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April 2011
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The Last Toast
My tears are falling one by one Upon the silence of this bed; Like rain they crown his quiet head Like moons they slip within his hair Into the goblets of the dead.
- Djuna Barnes, 1916
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March 2011
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“Don’t you think the stairs are a good place for reading letters? I do. One is...”
– katherine mansfield - letter dated 29 july, 1921.
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Carrefour
O You, Who came upon me once Stretched under apple-trees just after bathing, Why did you not strangle me before speaking Rather than fill me with the wild white honey of your words And then leave me to the mercy Of the forest bees.
—Amy Lowell (1920) (via poetrytumblr)
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“Crowding, like a fluttering bird, one sentence crosses the empty space between...”
– virginia woolf, the waves (1931), p.84.
you can now follow modernist women on twitter here.
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“As a woman I want no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.”
– virginia woolf, three guineas (1938), p.234.
happy international women’s day from modernist women.
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“You said not to answer your letter, and above all I don’t want to trouble...”
– elizabeth bowen, letter to leonard woolf on learning of the death of virginia woolf, 8th april, 1941 - the mulberry tree, p.221.
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February 2011
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“You’re not very fond of your room by day. You never think about it....”
– katherine mansfield, ‘at the bay’ in the garden party and other stories (1922).
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“But he had seen, from the way she had lain stretched on the sofa before waking,...”
– elizabeth bowen, the house in paris (1935), p.28.
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“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by...”
– virginia woolf, a room of one’s own (1929), pp.44-5.
January 2011
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“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via deadwriters)
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“I would like to get out of this place. But outside, rain is falling, the...”
– colette, ‘moments of stress’ (1913), in robert phelps, ed., the collected stories of colette, p.138.
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“The searching gaze of the woman on the omnibus wandered for an instant from all...”
– evelyn sharp, ‘the women at the gate’ (1910), in bonnie kime scott, ed., gender in modernism: new geographies, complex intersections, pp.37-43 (pp.37-8).
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“Here then is a little summary of what I need - power, wealth and freedom. It is...”
– katherine mansfield, journal, may 1908.