....to think that we could hear her voice at this time after all those years, we are lucky indeed.
@scotnick593 жыл бұрын
YES
@TotzkeMike8 жыл бұрын
Beautiful, just beautiful. A gift, to have this record of how she spoke.
@laurastevens18558 жыл бұрын
Michael Totzke Yes!
@joshuatrees7977 жыл бұрын
Isn't it? A blessing to be able to hear her voice.
@raisa_cherry355 жыл бұрын
❤😍
@juliadomna24004 жыл бұрын
Simp
@TotzkeMike4 жыл бұрын
Jeremy Saunders Fuck. YOU.
@dtj49er13 жыл бұрын
It is wonderful to hear "the voice" that inspired so many of us, as writers and feminists. To read her diaries and letters over these many years was always such a delight. As this is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice, and she is commenting on language and words, hearing her voice has made my day!!
@cgfyffygugugug35523 жыл бұрын
She wasn't feminist, She defended the rights of everybody in a world in which women didn' t have rights
@wohellcat Жыл бұрын
@@cgfyffygugugug3552 well, she advocated for women's rights as well then. which makes her a feminist.
@cgfyffygugugug3552 Жыл бұрын
@@wohellcat feminists fight for the rights of women, against men or something. The others fight for the rights of everyone
@cgfyffygugugug3552 Жыл бұрын
@@wohellcat She was for "gender equality", not for the populist movements which lead to forms of sovereignism : that suffix "ist" Is never good
@ashharijaywardena Жыл бұрын
@@cgfyffygugugug3552 Just an addition, although belated, that I think pertinent to your point (which I wholly agree with): Woolf disliked the word 'feminist'. She felt it restrictive and biased, as you point out. She symbolically burns it in Three Guineas. Her goal, as Woolf explains by quoting the legendary Josephine Butler, was 'to assert the rights of all - all women and men - to the respect in their persons of the great principles of Justice and Equality and Liberty'. Many of the most compelling women advocating for women's rights in the Georgian era disliked being called 'feminists', and exactly that seems to have ensured that they were called so in order to water down their true goal.
@wxoxozy9 жыл бұрын
This is exactly what I thought she'd sound like.
@paquetehabana74575 жыл бұрын
'Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of associations - naturally. They have been out and about, on people’s lips, in their houses, in the streets, in the fields, for so many centuries. And that is one of the chief difficulties in writing them today - that they are so stored with meanings, with memories, that they have contracted so many famous marriages. The splendid word “incarnadine,” for example - who can use it without remembering also “multitudinous seas”? In the old days, of course, when English was a new language, writers could invent new words and use them. Nowadays it is easy enough to invent new words - they spring to the lips whenever we see a new sight or feel a new sensation - but we cannot use them because the language is old. You cannot use a brand new word in an old language because of the very obvious yet mysterious fact that a word is not a single and separate entity, but part of other words. It is not a word indeed until it is part of a sentence. Words belong to each other, although, of course, only a great writer knows that the word “incarnadine” belongs to “multitudinous seas.” To combine new words with old words is fatal to the constitution of the sentence. In order to use new words properly you would have to invent a new language; and that, though no doubt we shall come to it, is not at the moment our business. Our business is to see what we can do with the English language as it is. How can we combine the old words in new orders so that they survive, so that they create beauty, so that they tell the truth? That is the question.' I love her, لا إله إلاَّ الله محمد رسول الله ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91d/chapter24.html
@ShoeGazer4 жыл бұрын
I know right!
@jonno524 жыл бұрын
I've no idea why, but that just cracks me up.
@halloweenville12 жыл бұрын
That deep contralto tone to her voice, makes her sound intelligent and thoughtful, just as she really was.
@marciasloan5342 жыл бұрын
Yes
@inthenameoflove8781 Жыл бұрын
As a French woman, i'm very glad to be able to hear Her voice.The english language has always been my enjoyment but I don't know why. i come from the lowest class of France and learned English at school. Her voice is just familiar to me, her words also. God bless the english female writers of that time.
@velocitygirl85514 ай бұрын
💓💓💓
@mitchelllunsford193011 жыл бұрын
Isn't this exactly how we imagined she would sound?
@dualblake Жыл бұрын
Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, felt the broadcast misrepresented his aunt’s voice: ‘the record is a very poor one,’ he wrote later: ‘her voice is deprived of depth and resonance; it seems altogether too fast and too flat; it is barely recognisable. Her speaking voice was in fact beautiful…and it is sad that it should not have been immortalised in a more satisfactory manner.’ If Bell is right, this may have been the result of Woolf’s discomfort with the medium of radio itself: ‘it could have been a good article,’ she later wrote about ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘[but] it’s the talk element that upsets it’. She promised herself in her diary that she would ‘refrain from the folly’ of broadcasting ever again.
@sherylgoolsbee956210 жыл бұрын
One doesn't simply read Woolf; you consume her thoughts, her words, and you hunger for more.
@ashantiehyacinthjovillano63904 жыл бұрын
very true
@ringodingo4 жыл бұрын
Yes. Just like Asian take out food.
@ringodingo4 жыл бұрын
@n\a humour is always funnier when it is carefully explained. So . . . With Woolf's writing, "you consume her words, . . . and you hunger for more." One consumes mass quantities of yummy Asian food, but 30 minutes later one is once again hungry.
@omp1993 жыл бұрын
@@ringodingo Asia stretches half-way round the world. "Asian" food could be pitta bread and hummus, or tarka dhal, or Mongolian khorkhog, or sushi.
@ringodingo3 жыл бұрын
@@omp199 omp199, awesome point about Asian food. I was trying to avoid simply saying Chinese food, which is what I was thinking of. I love the North American restaurant version of Chinese food.
@ShamanMick15 жыл бұрын
I love everyone who has commented on this; it's so good to see people who admire real literature :)
@billymusicwb10 жыл бұрын
This is amazing! What a privilege to hear Virginia Woolf's voice! I listened to the unabridged "Mrs. Dalloway" last week, and "To The Lighthouse" this week. I rank her among the best ever. She should be read alongside Beckett, Proust and Joyce.
@billymusicwb10 жыл бұрын
From the KZbin description: This is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice. It is part of a BBC radio broadcast from April 29th, 1937. The talk was called "Craftsmanship" and was part of a series entitled "Words Fail Me". The audio is accompanied by a slideshow of photographs of Virginia Woolf. The text was published as an essay in "The Death of the Moth and Other Essays"
@Liara_I_Sorry10 жыл бұрын
I was Virginia's lover!
@HogsHeadStudios10 жыл бұрын
Two things: Virginia Woolf is definitely among the best modernist novelists, and that's recognized. Also, hot damn, listening to a Virginia Woolf novel is a feat--it's complicated enough to understand in text.
@billymusicwb10 жыл бұрын
HogsHeadStudios You might find listening to Woolf is better, if you have a good reader. I listened to Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and The Waves in recorded books. The flow of the language with a reader who has the appropriate accent is fantastic. Same with Joyce's Ulysses. But hearing Woolf's voice in this only existing recording is both daunting and inspiring to me. There is one recording of Flannery O'Connor which you can probably find easily on KZbin. That recording of O'Connor will change the way you read her work forever. She's sharper and funnier than anyone. Wow!
@alexf0207199910 жыл бұрын
I agree that she's definitely one of the best writers ever, and my personal favourite. The Waves blew me away way more than any other book I've ever read, plus Mrs Dalloway and To The Lighthouse were pretty damn incredible as well.
@amritashetty40904 жыл бұрын
Her voice is so soothing. Any one can wonder behind this calm voice she was sufferring....
@dualblake Жыл бұрын
Apparently her voice was so much more than what we hear here. Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, felt the broadcast misrepresented his aunt’s voice: ‘the record is a very poor one,’ he wrote later: ‘her voice is deprived of depth and resonance; it seems altogether too fast and too flat; it is barely recognisable. Her speaking voice was in fact beautiful…and it is sad that it should not have been immortalised in a more satisfactory manner.’ If Bell is right, this may have been the result of Woolf’s discomfort with the medium of radio itself: ‘it could have been a good article,’ she later wrote about ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘[but] it’s the talk element that upsets it’. She promised herself in her diary that she would ‘refrain from the folly’ of broadcasting ever again.
@DantinaDB15 жыл бұрын
My God ... This is the Virginia's Voice! Thanks for post it ... I love Virginia Woolf. She's wonderful ... I'm speechless ... I'm in tears ...
@genevievel53096 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful musical voice.
@dualblake Жыл бұрын
Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, felt the broadcast misrepresented his aunt’s voice: ‘the record is a very poor one,’ he wrote later: ‘her voice is deprived of depth and resonance; it seems altogether too fast and too flat; it is barely recognisable. Her speaking voice was in fact beautiful…and it is sad that it should not have been immortalised in a more satisfactory manner.’ If Bell is right, this may have been the result of Woolf’s discomfort with the medium of radio itself: ‘it could have been a good article,’ she later wrote about ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘[but] it’s the talk element that upsets it’. She promised herself in her diary that she would ‘refrain from the folly’ of broadcasting ever again.
@genevievel5309 Жыл бұрын
@@dualblake Thank you for an interesting comment.
@qamarm1831 Жыл бұрын
Yes , ofcourse it's beautiful ❤️
@glamourofyesterday9 жыл бұрын
Lovely photos and what a marvellous thing to hear her voice, even if there are decades between us. Thank you for sharing this! :)
@laurastevens18558 жыл бұрын
glamourofyesterday Right? Joy!!
@AAwildeone10 жыл бұрын
Hope this is on here forever! I listen to it at least once a month...
@SaramyJ9410 жыл бұрын
OMG finally a recording of my favourite writer!
@Liara_I_Sorry10 жыл бұрын
Finally?! It was broadcast in 1937, where yah been.
@SaramyJ9410 жыл бұрын
In 1937? I wasn't born, were you??
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
Too bad there isn't one on Oscar Wilde. That would be something, I would think.
@katiem49353 жыл бұрын
@@waynej2608 That would have been so cool😩
@sharonbotts70572 жыл бұрын
“There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.” Wonderful to hear her voice, imagine meeting her and what would she think of the world 100 years later.
@BRIDGETTattoo2 жыл бұрын
Right?
@strahinjapantic8475 Жыл бұрын
She'd probably kill herself again.
@sterlingwalter5971Ай бұрын
She would think it demonic and squalid.
@USSGJDocumentaries9 жыл бұрын
I've always considered Virginia Woolf's style of writing the same as a method actor. She becomes what she is writing or it becomes her.
@laurastevens18558 жыл бұрын
Gary Jones precisely.
@fionaautumn2 жыл бұрын
Beautifully said
@xpythagoras40448 жыл бұрын
microphone is better than mine.
@esejsnake15034 жыл бұрын
Ha
@ZnenTitan11 жыл бұрын
Thanks ever so much for posting this. Now when I read her works I'll just imagine them her voice and enjoy them all the more.
@deborahdp77444 жыл бұрын
Me too amazing
@dualblake Жыл бұрын
Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, felt the broadcast misrepresented his aunt’s voice: ‘the record is a very poor one,’ he wrote later: ‘her voice is deprived of depth and resonance; it seems altogether too fast and too flat; it is barely recognisable. Her speaking voice was in fact beautiful…and it is sad that it should not have been immortalised in a more satisfactory manner.’ If Bell is right, this may have been the result of Woolf’s discomfort with the medium of radio itself: ‘it could have been a good article,’ she later wrote about ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘[but] it’s the talk element that upsets it’. She promised herself in her diary that she would ‘refrain from the folly’ of broadcasting ever again.
@driftymind8 жыл бұрын
I love how absolutely, fiercely irreverent she was. And every time I read (in this case listen to) her stuff I'm left astonished. Reading her work is a spiritual experience, or a dip in a clear pool.
@rosacerro27756 жыл бұрын
Debdutta Ray
@waynej26084 жыл бұрын
Provided, it's not the final 'dip'.
@klausmaccus43972 жыл бұрын
@@waynej2608 LOL NICE 😆
@boleyn12312 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful, gentle voice! What a wonderful writer. Thank you so much. This woman suffered so much and gave so much. 'The Waves' alone is a masterpiece and I would love to see it filmed, if it could be done. Thank you for this post and thank you Mrs. Woolf for making such a lasting contribution to the English language and English literature.
@boatsagainst11 жыл бұрын
this is so strange and amazing. i'm a huge fan of Virginia Woolf and her work, but to be able to hear her voice and to realise that someone can have a huge impact on you and your life without you ever hearing their voice or know how they speak.
@kenziii59735 жыл бұрын
Fascinating , you can sense her eccentric intellect in her voice ♥️♥️ I'm glad this recording exist
@joannawill25973 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this. I feel so moved to have experienced this voice, her fierce words and luminous photographs together.
@ryugin51114 жыл бұрын
This is wonderful, thanks to whoever found this and shared it with all of us..what a treat to hear her talk about writing and words.
@McLeanAmy8 жыл бұрын
So very beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
@djangolorentzson26763 жыл бұрын
Besides her beautiful voice, her intonation and how she phrases the words (a feeling of: It’s Virginia Woolf!), what she has to say is invaluable.
@jre118912 жыл бұрын
Virginia Woolf has this incredible effect on me. Any time I discover something new about her I'm mesmerized by her genius. I can't believe that there are so many people that don't worship at her altar.
@carlota95519 ай бұрын
I broke in tears the moment I listened to her voice. Her entonation. I believe we will not have such a well-spoken person. Her legacy will continue to live in our hearts and minds forever. Sincerely, thank you so much for uploading this.
@boompsr502210 жыл бұрын
she is talking about words and writing and language.This is called "Craftsmanship". I made a special trip to the British Library to listen to this same recording.
@annchristensen71045 жыл бұрын
We can hear what she is speaking of. By listening to her speak.
@paradiddle115 жыл бұрын
An amazing recording to be cherished! Thanks for this post Atthis
@KenKen359311 жыл бұрын
No one said or ever will say "multitudinous seas" as expertly beautifully as she did.
@boleyn12312 жыл бұрын
You are so right. We live in an age where delicacy in all things is too often neglected. Virginia, at once the most delicate and strongest voice of her time, is a prime example of the power of mind, intelligence and sensitivity. How she did this is beyond me. But did it she did (forgive the appalling diction!) A thousand pities her life was not happier. You are so right her 'long shining sentences' will never be forgotten. Your insights are splendid. Thank you.
@FriedEggsWithChips11 жыл бұрын
Thank you for uploading this video, it has single-handedly (is this the right term? I am suddenly self-conscious about my words!) raised my estimation of her and her great mind... in a modern Britain filled with people (critics, scholars and the like) who seem against new terms, to hear an old Georgian voice speaking out for the liberty of words is a breath of fresh air... even though it is a very old recording she still sounds completely relevant.
@firehacker17915 жыл бұрын
She's a genius! A Master of Literature!
@Cygnus7510 жыл бұрын
I'm crying with this wonder
@EmilyDickinson100012 жыл бұрын
A thrilling audio and magnificent photos of perhaps the most expressive and beautiful face that ever existed. Meltingly lovely, riveting images. Thank you.
@giuseppersa23912 жыл бұрын
2022 here..utterly spellbinding. Thank you for posting this beautiful video. 🌹🌹🌹
@StephanieLisaTara13 жыл бұрын
I'm absolutely shocked - Ive spent so much of my life reading her works, admiring her on a million different levels - I had no idea her voice had been recorded! This is a gift beyond gifts...thankyouthankyou!!!
@placidwaters24154 жыл бұрын
A beautiful mind - wonderful to actually hear her voice. A real treat.
@dualblake Жыл бұрын
Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, felt the broadcast misrepresented his aunt’s voice: ‘the record is a very poor one,’ he wrote later: ‘her voice is deprived of depth and resonance; it seems altogether too fast and too flat; it is barely recognisable. Her speaking voice was in fact beautiful…and it is sad that it should not have been immortalised in a more satisfactory manner.’ If Bell is right, this may have been the result of Woolf’s discomfort with the medium of radio itself: ‘it could have been a good article,’ she later wrote about ‘Craftsmanship’, ‘[but] it’s the talk element that upsets it’. She promised herself in her diary that she would ‘refrain from the folly’ of broadcasting ever again.
@BurnSheDevil13 жыл бұрын
I think I'm going to write down what she says so that I can study it more closely. Very nice selection of photographs. I had necer seen so many of her! She had a fascinating presence, elegance and intelligence from head to toe.
@agnesdeque12 жыл бұрын
Très émouvant et impressionnant d'entendre CETTE voix . Merci !
@aspalathos84993 жыл бұрын
So clear, direct, logical and knowledgeable. I wish I could hear her lectures. I like her questioning things, like when she says 'Do we write better? Do we read better? I like how she sees things in multiple dimensions. Professor you can wish for.
@melissachallinor4410 Жыл бұрын
I only just found out a recording existed, it's great to hear Virginia's voice.
@mariapatini46088 ай бұрын
🎉😂❤
@PninianPnin12 жыл бұрын
This recording is a treasure! Woolf was one of Britain's greatest innovators, as well as the worlds!
@laurastevens18558 жыл бұрын
Absolutely brilliant! She has an understanding of language and communication that is otherworldly. The power of our words is imperative to learn. Our spirit has no bounds. I started reading Virginia when I was sixteen in literature. The teacher was on something else but I skimmed through and found "A room of one's own". I couldn't stop thinking about it. I found a story that taught me how much more I could be.
@roacharoo12 жыл бұрын
This just made my life...I have read all of Virginia's works and always imagined what such a soul-stirring writer might have sounded. Now I know, and I am in love with her voice. There is such strength here, such integrity. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
@amandaeliasch12 жыл бұрын
This is an incredible piece recorded. We are so lucky to have it. Thank you.
@blastfromthepast70052 жыл бұрын
Exactly the same voice as my great-aunt, who died about 10 years ago in her mid 90s.
@SandrineAnterrion13 жыл бұрын
Love it. Thanks for upload
@TheAnn2shoes10 жыл бұрын
About 15 years ago I visited Virginia Woolf's home in Sussex with a friend who was using her writing as part of her dissertation. We arrived late and I told her to run up the track to the house; I would lock the car and follow. There was one other car in the car park and I parked a few feet away. As I got out, I felt that somebody was watching me and I turned around to look into the car. There, staring out at me, eating an apple, was Virginia Woolf (or her absolute double!). I have no explanation for it. Has anybody else had a similar experience?
@Marius-eu8dh9 жыл бұрын
It was a Sending! Lucky you!
@TheAnn2shoes9 жыл бұрын
Marius Cipolla It was strange, but interesting, for sure.
@krneel1289 жыл бұрын
+Ann TwoShoes I believe you. The sun sets everyday. The apple is a real thing.
@TheAnn2shoes9 жыл бұрын
It most definitely happened and I've never encountered anything similar since.
@krneel1289 жыл бұрын
Ann TwoShoes No, I'm serious. I most definitely believe you, and I'll never encounter anything similar again.
@hopeisthething196528 күн бұрын
Thank you very much. Wonderful to find this.
@amiablesnowman13 жыл бұрын
Almost finished To the Lighthouse, the first book by her that I've read. All I can say is... what a revelation. I knew it would be my favourite book by the time I was 30 pages in.
@ghesoonkarim602 Жыл бұрын
You made my day ⚘️thank you. She was beyond her time.
@janhavimore39814 жыл бұрын
so beautiful, so captivating
@isatthere7 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting. So glad to have found it. Thanks for your efforts in combining the photos, adds to the experience so much.
@StephenDedalus742 жыл бұрын
WOOOOW !!! I didn't know these magical minutes existed !!! What a priceless recording !!! Thank you so much for this amazing discovery !!!! :)
@lechonmanok91642 жыл бұрын
She is indeed a great woman, the way I learned alot because of her is simply amazing. Not just me but almost everybody here. She's amazing and inspired me alot of things 😌
@d.ariess Жыл бұрын
i love her, i really hope that teens and adults this age would appreciate women like her more, she's lived great and left her own legacy
@amberspecter Жыл бұрын
Man, she really was formidable. Who else could think up something so brilliant as 'the famous marriages' contracted by words before
@marinacatanese10292 жыл бұрын
What an extraordinary experience! Thank you. I'm reading " Moments of being", a collection of autobiographic writings...from now her words will resound .
@BarnebyWilde8 жыл бұрын
No wonder both men and women fell in love with her.
@kyawkyawwin15 жыл бұрын
Speak for yourself, missie.
@francisprada65265 жыл бұрын
Agree!
@swirlandtwirl54174 жыл бұрын
Yep, Vita is one of the proof
@deborahdp77444 жыл бұрын
Completely agree
@Cami-dc9iu3 жыл бұрын
True
@negarsoley6 жыл бұрын
By reading her books and listening to her voice i feel like someone in life get what i feel. Thats the best feeling.
@MissAnna21199115 жыл бұрын
Omg , her voice is so gentle...great, she wa the biggest from big writers.
@pintogallo14 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. Virginia Woolf, for me, is among the most important writers of the 20th century if not the whole english language along with Edmund Spencer, James Joyce and Shakespear
@cygnebleu11 жыл бұрын
how beautifully spoken, how sober and without any pathos!
@lancelotdufrane5 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. Hearing her speaking.... almost an introduction.
@feewebb13 жыл бұрын
About 20 years ago I went to a day of lectures on Virginia Woolf at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Nigel Nicholson came and did a fairly brief talk and brought along with him his own recording of Virginia Woolf. I know 20 years is a long time but I remember being very taken aback by her very low voice. I just don't recall her sounding like this at all.What's taken me aback here is that this sounds nothing like what I remember hearing all those years back.This is very BBC
@annchristensen71045 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing that! It confirms my idea of her possibly formal discussion, vs a more informal tone. Nicholson would be personally a good source. I envy you getting to hear him speak of her!
@qasim52336 ай бұрын
Long ago , I had a deep experience while teaching her novel "to the light house" , I went through the text deeply .. it gave a great admiration of Novel as a genre
@tippngthevelvet15 жыл бұрын
This is her genius alive for this new generation. I am moved in ways that I have not the words to describe.
@drishyaphuel3 жыл бұрын
Strong voice. Such a commanding yet humble voice.
@LindsayCurran15 жыл бұрын
Many thanks! Fabulous for me to find this! Superb posting!
@zelcova1710 жыл бұрын
Thanks for transcript on your blog.
@asha24106315 жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting it. I have just read a biography on her and it mentioned this recording. I never Imagined I would actually find it.
@albertinacamus3 жыл бұрын
Amazing , legendary
@giuseppersa23912 ай бұрын
My second time listening to this most delightful Lady ❤
@TheGlitzieGirl19 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the subtitles - fantastic!
@jintsfan2 жыл бұрын
Could never imagine how her voice would sound like.
@goncaloembalo12 жыл бұрын
This is gold for my ears as her words are for my spirit.
@Chiara20768 жыл бұрын
She was amazing...
@dsarkar16814 жыл бұрын
Her voice and that of Same Edith Sitwell are eerily similar! We are indeed lucky to hear them as well as access their works on the touch of a button!
@timcolledge37323 жыл бұрын
They are indeed!!
@blessOTMA5 жыл бұрын
"For she has gone aroving " Wonderful. A great writer giving us pointers on how to see and use, words. Powerful.
@drowned314 жыл бұрын
It's incredible how calm and self-confident it is that voice from this woman here, in this situation (even within her stormy soul). What she said is not but the encounter with own truth (the own mind); "Words do not live in dictionaries, they live in the mind", (...)
@gsavakis15 жыл бұрын
I have recently have finished reading: "To The Lighthouse". I felt like standing on a hill with the characters of the book beside me. We were not moving AT ALL, just staring at the sea. No sounds, no moves just a small breathe of air from time to time. Nothing! This feeling of watching life is AMAZING.
@emmaschoenmaker27156 жыл бұрын
Utmost wonderful! I took such astounding delight in this, her voice as remarkable as her writing. Not a doubt in mind I will routinely have a listen to this. Absolutely my favourite writer, the mother of Literature herself addressing literature in all its complexity whilst she makes it appear to be so easy. That is a gift.
@IsabelHiggins-z4y8 ай бұрын
Wow. I clicked just to hear her voice for a few seconds, but Woolf's reflections on language mesmerized me entirely
@superclaydude12 жыл бұрын
"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning, the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination…" I haven't read any of Woolf's books, but that is a really good quote.
@elepinkgold37923 ай бұрын
I swear i imagined her voice just like that same with vita
@ElectricLabel15 жыл бұрын
This is an amazing piece of audio. Virginia in all her stream-of-consciousness. The greatest writer of the 20th Century, and one of the greatest of all time.
@ed_leonardi2 жыл бұрын
So nice to hear a proper accent. How beautiful it sounds!
@SeattleBlythe15 жыл бұрын
Suze, I love this! I have always been intrigued by her and the Bloomsbury Group...I have even hung out at her old house in London, which is now part of the University of London.
@nevanovna13 жыл бұрын
wonderful to listen to the English spoken by VW,the English I heard spoken as a small child,she has a true Edwardian voice.
@ryanjavierortega851312 жыл бұрын
This is beautiful.
@danasalmonson63615 күн бұрын
Thank you. Most exciting to travel in time.
@Zenocrat12 жыл бұрын
Absolutely incredible! If words live in the mind, as Virginia Woolf eloquently argued, then the words living in her mind must have been among the happiest words to take up a most luxurious and comfortable abode. Our U.S. Supreme Court Justices -- and anyone else who cares about the art of interpretation -- would be well served by carefully considering her words.
@orionzak79907 жыл бұрын
Its means a lot to me that you posted this. I guess it's from her, where I get my writing spirit from.
@MsMaya88884 жыл бұрын
what an honor to be able to listen and enjoy her voice.
@hs9645 ай бұрын
"In the old days,..."
@diego449311510 жыл бұрын
Such a remarkable woman, a pioneer during her own lifetime period. Inquiring about her a couple of years ago, I came across this terminology regarding her mental illness and her bipolar depression, something that she was referring to, about that through her madness she was enable to compose one of the greatests variety of articles and essays whilst her ailment was taken over her. ''A genius during agony might give creation to a master piece, after achieve it, the mortality it's welcome''.
@PraiseMedusa7 жыл бұрын
She' endured quite a bit of tragedy & abuse. When the second WW hit, it send her over the edge, it seems.