The Virginia Woolf Podcast

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Karina talks with Prof Emma Sutton about the myriad of ways that classical music is relevant to Woolf's life and work. They discuss how innovations in early twentieth century music influenced changes in modern literature and how this music impacted on Woolf's writing process. 

Prof Emma Sutton a professor of English at the University of St Andrews, and has published widely on the relationships among music, literature and fine art in the nineteenth and twentieth century. She is author of Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s (Oxford, 2002), Virginia Woolf and Classical Music (Edinburgh, 2013). She is also Founding Director of the Woolf and Music project.  

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 Karina talks with Prof Maggie Humm's about her debut novel, Talland House. 

Talland House builds on Woolf's famous novel To the Lighthouse, exploring the Cornish art scene in the 1920s, expanding on the character of Lily Briscoe, and asking the ultimate question - who killed Mrs Ramsay?

Maggie Humm is an Emeritus Professor at the University of East London in the UK. An international Woolf scholar, she is the author/editor of fourteen books, the last three of which focused on Woolf and the arts. Talland House was shortlisted for the Impress and Fresher Fiction prizes (as Who Killed Mrs. Ramsay?) and the Retreat West and Eyelands prizes. 

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In this episode Karina chats with Prof Susan Sellers about her novel, Vanessa and Virginia, which explores the fascinating relationship between Virginia Woolf and her sister, the artist Vanessa Bell.

Susan is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modernist and contemporary literature and creative writing. She won the Canongate Prize for Short Story Writing and her first novel, Vanessa and Virginia, has been translated into 16 languages and was adapted for the stage. 

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What would it be like to live in Monk's House, former home of Virginia Woolf?

Caroline Zoob and her husband Jonathan are some of the few people who know the answer to that question. They lived in Monk's House as tenants for the National Trust for over a decade, and in this episode they talk with Karina about what it was like to share their home with Woolf's legacy, dozens of volunteers, and seven and a half thousand visitors a year.

Caroline Zoob is an embroider and designer, she is also the author of Virginia Woolf's Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk's House, which is published by Jaqui Small. 

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Sarah M. Hall, writer and editor, talks to Karina about her book, Before Leonard: The Early Suitors of Virginia Woolf. Sarah is on the Council of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and is a regular contributor to the Virginia Woolf Bulletin.

You can buy Sarah's book from the Charleston Farmhouse bookshop.

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