On the way to the meeting, I walked around Bloomsbury and imagined what it was like in the time of the Bloomsbury Group. In Russell Square Park, the Chow Society was meeting.
I learned why I was so enthusiastically encouraged to join the Virginia Woolf Society: in the U.K., a Fellow is a very respected academic position, above a professor. I am a Composition Fellow at St. Mary's College, and my position is the lowest in the faculty there. So, I was greeted and adored and asked to attend the tea after the presentation.
Professor Claire Davison of the Sorbonne gave the talk. Here's her first slide.
At the "tea," everyone drank way too much red and white wine, we cut a rum-filled birthday cake in honor of Virginia Woolf's birthday, and I won a book for a lottery prize! I'll try to backfill this entry with more on the lecture, but I will say Claire offered to let me in the Sorbonne next week as you have to have a faculty sponsor to be admitted to the building. We'll see if I can navigate the French transportation strike!
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