Discussion
Loading...

Post

Log in
  • Sign up
  • About
  • Code of conduct
  • Privacy
  • Users
  • Instances
  • About Bonfire
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg
@gutenberg_org@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 days ago

“Let us try then to recapture some actual experience, which seems to have a connection with the experience of reading these old books; to spring from poetry; to be interfused with the same emotion...”

Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf

By Frances Lindemann

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/02/18/reading-at-random-with-virginia-woolf/

Virginia Woolf at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/89

#books #literature #literarycriticism

Woolf in 1902

by George Charles Beresford 

Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon.

A black and white portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf shown in soft three-quarter profile facing left. She has dark hair swept up and gathered into a low, loose chignon at the nape of her neck. Her features are delicate — a long, fine nose, deep-set eyes with a contemplative, faraway gaze, and a gentle mouth. She wears a light-colored blouse with a soft, slightly ruffled or gathered neckline. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg
Woolf in 1902 by George Charles Beresford Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. A black and white portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf shown in soft three-quarter profile facing left. She has dark hair swept up and gathered into a low, loose chignon at the nape of her neck. Her features are delicate — a long, fine nose, deep-set eyes with a contemplative, faraway gaze, and a gentle mouth. She wears a light-colored blouse with a soft, slightly ruffled or gathered neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg
Woolf in 1902 by George Charles Beresford Portrait of Virginia Woolf (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941), a British author and feminist, with her chignon. A black and white portrait photograph of Virginia Woolf shown in soft three-quarter profile facing left. She has dark hair swept up and gathered into a low, loose chignon at the nape of her neck. Her features are delicate — a long, fine nose, deep-set eyes with a contemplative, faraway gaze, and a gentle mouth. She wears a light-colored blouse with a soft, slightly ruffled or gathered neckline. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Woolf#/media/File:George_Charles_Beresford_-_Virginia_Woolf_in_1902_-_Restoration.jpg
Project Gutenberg

Books by Woolf, Virginia

Project Gutenberg offers 77,796 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.
The Paris Review

Reading at Random with Virginia Woolf by Frances Lindemann

February 18, 2026 – In Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it seems possible to us to write the book, not to read it.”
  • Copy link
  • Flag this post
  • Block

Bonfire social

This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes

Bonfire social: About · Code of conduct · Privacy · Users · Instances
Bonfire social · 1.0.1 no JS en
Automatic federation enabled
Log in Create account
  • Explore
  • About
  • Members
  • Code of Conduct