Now through November 22, The Grolier Club will present Virginia Woolf ephemera in an exhibit ("The Perpetual Fight") drawn from a number of private collections. The exhibit will include over 200 items, including books, images, letters and other ephemera materials, some of which have never been exhibited publicly. The items on display pertain to Virginia Woolf, her parents, her husband, Leonard Woolf, and their friends and relations. The circle around Virginia and Leonard Woolf, including the painters Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington and Roger Fry, the economist John Maynard Keynes
, authors Lytton Strachey, T.S. Eliot, Vita Sackville-West, and other luminaries of the period, became known as the Bloomsbury Group.
This group, and their friends, produced mountains of books, hundreds of square feet of paintings and reams of press. The exhibit documents how their lives and work intertwined and enriched each other, and how Virginia Woolf's greatest literary work (Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own) resonates with the story of her own life and the people who were so dear to her.
Photograph by Brocco Lee.
