May 14th, 2013
He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink. —

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (published May 14, 1925)

Today’s a good day to correct with red ink or buy flowers yourself… or re-visit an old classic like Mrs. Dalloway. Have a perfectly Dalloway day!

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April 16th, 2013
I want to resemble a sort of liquid light which stretches beyond visibility or invisibility. Tonight I wish to have the valor and daring to belong to the moon. —

Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

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December 10th, 2012
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy… — Virginia Woolf, Orlando (via liquidnight)
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September 17th, 2012
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams. — Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via violentwavesofemotion)

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September 13th, 2012
entregulistanybostan: Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-1895) was the third daughter of Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson. Born in India in 1846, she moved to England with her mother in 1848. This photograph of Virginia Woolf’s mother was taken when she was ten years old and reveals her legendary beauty. She later became a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters, such as Edward Burne-Jones. Reproduction of plate 31a from Leslie Stephen’s Photograph AlbumOriginal: albumen print (11.3 x 9.4 cm.)Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College Smith College Libraries

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Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-1895) was the third daughter of Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson. Born in India in 1846, she moved to England with her mother in 1848. This photograph of Virginia Woolf’s mother was taken when she was ten years old and reveals her legendary beauty. She later became a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters, such as Edward Burne-Jones.

Reproduction of plate 31a from Leslie Stephen’s Photograph Album
Original: albumen print (11.3 x 9.4 cm.)
Mortimer Rare Book Room, Smith College

Smith College Libraries


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September 12th, 2012
entregulistanybostan: Virginia Woolf, ca. 1895  the-night-picture-collector Virginia Woolf, ca. 1895

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Virginia Woolf, ca. 1895 

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Virginia Woolf, ca. 1895

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August 6th, 2012
There is nothing staid, nothing settled, in this universe. All is rippling, all is dancing; all is quickness and triumph. — Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via chambres)

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July 20th, 2012
I wish you could live in my brain for a week. It is washed with the most violent waves of emotion… And you think it all fixed and settled. Do we then know nobody?—only our own version of them, which, as likely as not, are emanations from ourselves. — Letter from Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville West, 1926. (via gnossienne)

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July 5th, 2012
entregulistanybostan: Virginia Woolf, with her mother Julia, 1884  Data: Julia Prinsep Stephen (1846-95) married Sir Leslie Stephen; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) age 2 © Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection

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Virginia Woolf, with her mother Julia, 1884 

Data: Julia Prinsep Stephen (1846-95) married Sir Leslie Stephen; Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) age 2

© Bridgeman Art Library / Private Collection

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April 15th, 2012
She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall. — Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (via dialogues)

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