Currently Browsing: To the Lighthouse
JAN’S PREFACE: I’m the gal who used to watch 3 or even 4 films in a row at festivals and during awards season screenings, but I honestly didn’t know if I still had the stamina to do this. Very grateful to Amelie Lasker (my morning partner) & Catherine Sawoski (my afternoon partner), for keeping my spirit soaring!… read more.
25th January 2022 marks the 140th birthday of the brilliant Virginia Woolf.
I live in London now, and to be able to routinely walk the same streets that Virginia Woolf and many of her contemporaries — famous writers such as James Joyce and Maurice Proust — would have walked is a truly remarkable experience.
Adeline Virginia Stephen was born into a well-to-do family in South Kensington, the seventh child of mother Julia Prinsep Jackson and father Leslie Stephen.… read more.