Andrew ShieldsOct 7
A paragraph from Virginia Woolf’s “Jacob’s Room” (1922) on depression, religion, genealogy, journalism, politics, psychology, sociology, imperialism, colonialism, and punditry. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #Paragraph #Depression #Religion #Genealogy #Journalism #Politics #Sociology #Psychology #Imperialism #Colonialism #Punditry https://111-words.ghost.io/a-paragraph-from-virginia-woolfs-jacobs-room-1922-on-depression-religion-genealogy-journalism-politics-psychology-sociology-imperialism-colonialism-and-punditry/
A paragraph from Virginia Woolf’s “Jacob’s Room” (1922) on depression, religion, genealogy, journalism, politics, psychology, sociology, imperialism, colonialism, and punditry

In the paragraph below from Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" (1922), Jacob Flanders begins with the "modern invention" of depression and then touches rapidly on modes of understanding available to him around 1910: religion (belief), genealogy ("our fathers"), journalism ("the Daily Mail"), politics (Parliament), depression again ("the black waters"), psychology ("happiness

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Andrew ShieldsOct 1
Crossing bridges in “The Waste Land” and “Jacob’s Room”. #111Words #TheWasteLand #TSEliot #JacobsRoom #VirginiaWoolf #Poetry #Fiction #Novels #Bridges #Death #TheGreatWar #WorldWarOne https://111-words.ghost.io/untitled/
Crossing bridges in “The Waste Land” and “Jacob’s Room"

On 16 October 1922, "The Criterion" published T. S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land", with a procession of the dead in London: "A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, / I had not thought death had undone so many. " Ten days later, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published Virginia

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Andrew ShieldsSep 23
“Crooked pins” in Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" (1922) and T. S. Eliot’s “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” (1920). #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #TSEliot #RhapsodyOnAWindyNight #Fiction #Novels #Poetry #CrookedPins https://111-words.ghost.io/crooked-pins-in-virginia-woolfs-jacobs-room-1922-and-t-s-eliots-rhapsody-on-a-windy-night-1920/
“Crooked pins” in Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" (1922) and T. S. Eliot’s “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” (1920)

In Virginia Woolf's novel "Jacob's Room" (1922), a Mrs. Norman first carefully observes a young man in her compartment on a train—and then forgets him at the station: "[...] this sight of her fellow-traveller was completely lost in her mind, as the crooked pin dropped by a child into the

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Andrew ShieldsSep 20
“Do you not discern the influence of jazz?”: W. L. Courtney on Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room” in 1922. #111Words #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #WLCourtney #Jazz #Novels #Literature #ShortStories #1922 #FScottFitzgerald #TalesOfTheJazzAge #Music #TheJazzAge https://111-words.ghost.io/do-you-not-discern-the-influence-of-jazz-w-l-courtney-on-virginia-woolfs-jacobs-room-in-1922/
“Do you not discern the influence of jazz?”: W. L. Courtney on Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room” in 1922

W. L. Courtney concluded his review of Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" in the Daily Telegraph on 10 November 1922 with a connection to music: "In its tense, syncopated movements, its staccato impulsiveness, do you not discern the influence of jazz?" From what I know of Woolf's work on that novel,

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Andrew ShieldsJul 25, 2025
“Shake it off” from “Piers Plowman” and Mark 6:11 to Virginia Woolf, Wilco, and Taylor Swift. #111Words #ShakeItOff #Music #Literature #Bible #WilliamLangland #PiersPlowman #MiddleEnglish #MylesCoverdale #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #Wilco #TaylorSwift https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/07/shake-it-off-from-piers-plowman-and.html
“Shake it off” from “Piers Plowman” and Mark 6:11 to Virginia Woolf, Wilco, and Taylor Swift

In Virginia Woolf's "Jacob's Room" (1922), Timmy Durant stops worrying about his friend Jacob Flanders: “There are things that can't be said...

Andrew ShieldsJul 7, 2025
Snoopy has insomnia and reads Virginia Woolf. #111Words #Snoopy #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #DonQ #Plunderland #HomeRule https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2025/07/snoopy-has-insomnia-and-reads-virginia.html
Snoopy has insomnia and reads Virginia Woolf

While the rain cools July down, Snoopy lies awake in his doghouse and reads Virginia Woolf. Jacob wanders Greece with melancholy reflections...

Christophe SanchezJun 6, 2025

📖 VIRGINIA WOOLF

La Chambre de Jacob
Traduction et édition d’Adolphe Haberer
Folio classique / Gallimard

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« Il semble qu'avoir de nos semblables une opinion pénétrante, impartiale et totalement juste soit complètement impossible. [...] Dans tous les cas la vie n'est qu'un cortège d'ombres. »

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#lachambredejacob #jacobsroom #virginiawoolf #woolf #adolphehaberer #litterature #litteratureanglaise #folioclassique #gallimard #lecturedujour

Paulo Henrique AraújoJan 25, 2025

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."

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Boomerang LiteratureJan 14, 2023

In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows

—Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room

(📖 https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks/m00018.html#ch3 ) #VirginiaWoolf #JacobsRoom #Books #Reading #Shadows #Book #Life #Literature #Quote