two photos of virginia woolf.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

hang on -

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:10 (twenty years ago) link

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

and 2.

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:11 (twenty years ago) link

It is what it sounds like.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Yup, that's Virginia Woolf.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 19:36 (twenty years ago) link

there are better photos for the sort of age i wanted in the first photo, i think. i dunno: there's something about these sorts of pictures that talks about how much time actually passed in that thirty or forty years in a way i can't really articulate

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:44 (twenty years ago) link

― tom west (thomp), Wednesday, 9 June 2004 20:45 (twenty years ago) link

Are there 30 or 40 years between those pictures? They don't look that different, and her expression seems about the same in each. Her hair's a bit different, I guess.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link

all i know is the first one is "pre-1920". "twenty or thirty years" would perhaps be better. (although the less time it is, the more striking it is.) (although no one else finds it striking.) (i really hate the woolf essay that has the "on the date of ____ ____ human nature changed" line: hm.)

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:46 (twenty years ago) link

it's the way the pictures are taken as much as anything. actually i think i have deciphered it: the third one looks like a STAFF PICTURE from MY JUNIOR SCHOOL. ah well -

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 02:47 (twenty years ago) link

Ahh, this reminds me that I stumbled upon her voice on BBC's website yesterday:
An Eulogy To Words
I love her accent. I'm surprised at how beautiful she is too, for some reason I'd never wondered about what she looked like.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 10 June 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago) link

The first one seems to be stamped 1923.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Thursday, 10 June 2004 04:33 (twenty years ago) link

She's a bit man/woman old Virginia.

All that living in squares, loving in triangles, I suppose.

I was talking to someone about the Bloomsbury Set once and I said John Milton Keynes. Not my finest hour.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 10 June 2004 08:07 (twenty years ago) link

I 'd never noticed before: she looks like Joan Baez!

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

gahhhhhh by first one i'm thinking the second one, because the third one was the first one i found

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:58 (twenty years ago) link

IGNORE THE FIRST ONE. THE SECOND ONE IS SOMETIME BEFORE 1920. I'M TIRED.

― tom west (thomp), Thursday, 10 June 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

okay, ill admit it. im afraid of virginia woolf.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 11 June 2004 10:57 (twenty years ago) link

especially in that last picture.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Friday, 11 June 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago) link

I'm still laughing at (er... with) Mikey G :) :)

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 11 June 2004 13:45 (twenty years ago) link

nineteen years pass...

Calgary airport. I’m sure Virginia Woolf would have loved Skittles. pic.twitter.com/hEapueIfH8
— Revd Dr Ayla Lepine (@heartchitecture) August 15, 2023

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 15 August 2023 19:56 (ten months ago) link

three weeks pass...

Destroy: Bloomsbury

Theresa May’s parliamentary painting just dropped pic.twitter.com/KX71jeEVAy
— James Heale (@JAHeale) September 4, 2023

― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 5 September 2023 08:28 (nine months ago) link

https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/7/2021/07/GettyImages-5442668261-4f1c702.jpg?quality=90&resize=620,414

― Monthly Python (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 September 2023 08:35 (nine months ago) link

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.