I love all of this! Thanks for writing about it, Anne. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is my favorite Woolf and it would’ve been so wonderful to discuss it with such a group. And then to see the Hepworth museum as well!
I recently read To the Lighthouse with an online reading group that's organized by the Eudora Welty House in Jackson, Mississippi. They alternate between reading a Welty work and a Welty-related book; Welty once wrote an introduction for To the Lighthouse. It's a great group--academics and non-academics, and as you said, everyone does the reading and has interesting insights.
I re-read Mrs. Dalloway every few years, but it had been a long time since I'd read all of To the Lighthouse (despite how often I take down the book to re-read the "Time Passes" section). I think in the past the humor had gone over my head--reading it this time, I found the satire of academics to be quite funny. I also was really struck by what a meditation on grief the novel is (which is why I return to the "Time Passes" section so often--I find it comforting).
Thank you, Anne, for sharing such a lovely commentary on how your view of Woolf is changing! If our views of things don’t shift in life, it means we aren’t changing, and that ya bad thing. ❤️
Sounds like a magical journey indeed!! Thank you for taking us along in such a relatable, insightful, and inspiring way! :)
Very interesting.
I love all of this! Thanks for writing about it, Anne. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is my favorite Woolf and it would’ve been so wonderful to discuss it with such a group. And then to see the Hepworth museum as well!
St Ives is such a beautiful place to visit :)
I recently read To the Lighthouse with an online reading group that's organized by the Eudora Welty House in Jackson, Mississippi. They alternate between reading a Welty work and a Welty-related book; Welty once wrote an introduction for To the Lighthouse. It's a great group--academics and non-academics, and as you said, everyone does the reading and has interesting insights.
I re-read Mrs. Dalloway every few years, but it had been a long time since I'd read all of To the Lighthouse (despite how often I take down the book to re-read the "Time Passes" section). I think in the past the humor had gone over my head--reading it this time, I found the satire of academics to be quite funny. I also was really struck by what a meditation on grief the novel is (which is why I return to the "Time Passes" section so often--I find it comforting).
Thank you, Anne, for sharing such a lovely commentary on how your view of Woolf is changing! If our views of things don’t shift in life, it means we aren’t changing, and that ya bad thing. ❤️