Virginia Woolf Project

Nadia, from the East

A ‘sister’, a white orphan, a strange disease: lives suspended in the story ‘Nadia, from the east’ by Cettina Callea. Italy, 2020.

28 April 2020

“Virginia? She was cheerful and creative”

The son of a very intimate Virginia Woolf’s friend, Vita Sackville-West, remembers how his “favourite aunt” was “beautiful, cheerful and creative”. So many anecdotes in an interview from 1980 with Enzo Biagi.

5 February 2020

Why should you read Virginia Woolf?

‘Why should you read Virginia Woolf?’ Question and answer in this interesting ‘lesson’ on Ted Ed by Iseult Gillespie of the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Gillespie is a trainer of the educational platform TED-Ed.’

20 January 2020

Maria the gas station attendant

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A september day, year 1978 from the diary of Maria Lega, gas station attendant in Turin (Italy)

13 November 2019

“Forced to leave school to serve the brothers”

Franchina Tresoldi for Virgnia Woolf Project

“Mamma Maria, forced to leave school, was considered a rebel because she was unwilling to serve the men of the house” diary of Franchina Tresoldi, artist, Lodi (Italy)

4 November 2019