Bloomsbury Books is an independent bookstore on Main Street in downtown Ashland, Oregon, home of the world-famous Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Founded in 1980, they specialise in contemporary fiction and children’s books, and also carry a wide variety of nonfiction and local authors, and, of course, they have a large Shakespeare and theatre section. The bookstore is named after the Bloomsbury Group, an informal group of writers, intellectuals and artists associated with the Bloomsbury district of London during the first half of the 20th century. Among its better known members were Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, whose work has profoundly influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics to this day. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. She was a major figure in London literary circles and at the center of the Bloomsbury Group. She was a major lyrical novelist as well as one of the most innovative linguists of her time. Her greatest literary gift was to take the banal and elevate it into works of great poetic intensity, employing experimental techniques to get at the psychological and emotional core of her characters. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and Between the Acts (1941), as well as the influential Feminist Essay A Room of One’s Own (1929). The latter work created a literal space for women creating within a largely a male-dominated tradition. |
I love the quote and image of Virginia Woolf on this bookmark. And the flecked paper.
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the BLOGGERDebrah Gai Lewis lives in Lillian Rock, New South Wales, Australia and is a bookmark collector, yoga teacher and SoulCollage® Facilitator (among other things). ABOUT the blogIn this blog I highlight bookmarks from my collection, feature stories about some of my favourite bookmarks (mine and other people's), and share interesting snippets I find on bookmarks and related topics. Thanks for visiting. Enjoy! BLOG
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