Negro words! I'm no linguist, but language is fluid. Pedantic critics concerning themselves with with insular (Western) parameters are unfulfilled in some other regard.
At any rate, that's how I choose to defend ebonics and the art of code-switching.
Seems you payed no attention to what she said. If you did then you'd realize that you're in agreement with Mrs. Woolf. You payed no attention, because once you heard "negro" your fatuous sentiments clumped up into a barrier that no other thought could penetrate. The only thing insular is your own self. Western literature is masterful because it embraces the wide multitude of thoughts that you so completely lack.
@anOPENEDbook So I suppose I should've added an LOL to imply farce.... You're entirely oblivious to any inference of wit. I said what I said because I AGREE with her ass. Do you think anyone interested in the musings of Woolf would be obtuse to her meaning? Seriously? Or do you just troll superfluous pedantics for fun? I heard "negro" because I am negro. Nothing fatuous about it. Prescient maybe. Your last statement is my exact sentiment. I chose to risibly champion her message. Good day.
@stuvo1977 It isn't How it is said, It is What is said. If her voice and accent put you to sleep then read the transcript. You do not speak of the content at all. I would suggest this woman was a very intelligent person and your criticism is what you said in your complaint..rubbish.
I read VW in college, I always was intrested in why she choice death over the pain of realaism. Was she a coward, or saw the truth that very little matters in the uncontrol of what is death? Of course, her noritarity was a means of stepping over the meaningless of life, her fame will live along time, wicked means to have an after life, and yet give up a real live. That does sound like a deal with a devalish mind. Intelect never dies, but at what cost. Love the movie "Hours."
It is wonderful to hear "the voice" that inspired so many of us, as writers and feminists. To read her diaries and letters over these many years was always such a delight. As this is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice, and she is commenting on language and words, hearing her voice has made my day!!
women used to sound like women. now they sound like freeze-timed little girls "like o m geeee!". no power, no maturity. this is what an intelligent woman sounds like.
@xblackcigarette did you just talk about grammatical correctness when I was satirically ridiculing modern day vernacular? Please, find better ways to troll the internet. You spelling and grammar people don't understand that, the internet is a shitland, and no one gives a wiggling maggot-infested turd about getting an A plus in SPELLING/GRAMMAR in a quickly written, my-two-cents comment box. Come on, dude -_- Nice. You disagree with my comment, Say that instead of be a petty, pedantic buttclog,
I find it incredibly thrilling simply to hear her voice! The way she wrote was just breathtaking; music in the form of words. She was a true craftswoman of the English language, I completely agree. I also quite enjoyed the slideshow of beautiful photographs.
I visited Monk's House in East Sussex; a lovely place.
people end their lives because the pain is too much to bear, am not sure if a Bishop coul dhave helped her, the life of a writer/poet/artists is so raw that it is often the only solution I'm afraid, how thin can your skin be? A bishop willnot help, with his silly old god.
I'm absolutely shocked - Ive spent so much of my life reading her works, admiring her on a million different levels - I had no idea her voice had been recorded! This is a gift beyond gifts...thankyouthankyou!!!
Every word has a history, and that history includes the first time one utters it; the first time one learned it; one's emotional states at various times when uttering it; and whom one was interacting with while utttering it. :-)
@wevelostDon That's precisely why we ladies revere her so! She stood out in a world where women were not meant to and was proud of it. I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'while some queen told her what to do' though. Virginia was still rather young when Queen Victoria died.
Almost finished To the Lighthouse, the first book by her that I've read. All I can say is... what a revelation. I knew it would be my favourite book by the time I was 30 pages in.
@amiablesnowman So glad to see someone else who knew so readily that Woolf's writing was brilliant! My favourite is Jacob's Room, followed by The Waves; I'm sure you'd love those too, although the writing style in those is much more psychologically based and modernist. In other words, it took me longer to fully 'get into' the novel as I was having to think about the stylistics of the work more. It's 100% worth it though!
@MissClareCharlotte I looked up your recommendations. The language in the opening of The Waves is quite hard to grasp, but in a way more beautiful because of it. The concept for Jacob's Room sounds interesting - of introducing Jacob's character only through others' impressions of him. I think I'll read Mrs Dalloway and Jacob's Room next. Thanks for the recommendations!
@amiablesnowman "To the Lighthouse" is also fantastic. Also check out her memoirs. There's a collection of them called "Moments of Being." They are superb. READ EVERYTHING! lol :)
It upsets me how Nicole Kidman was too lazy to become the woman she was supposed to be playing on film. In her arrogance, she horrendously failed to intelligently honour the legacy of this great mind - portraying her as a spiteful and self-absorbed ghoul! Her performance doesn't even begin the capture the sharpness, gravitas and sparkling wit of the real Woolf. It is devastating to think how people picture Kidman's Woolf when they think of her - brooding in halls and bitching at her husband!
@Messylin There is a video on the making of the film on youtube (user coconutmilk83). Quite interesting to hear Nicole talk about the role. It was never her wish to try to capture Virginia literally, more an exercise in trying to find an appropriate character for the movie. She even mentions how her accent is nothing like Virginia's speaking voice, noting that trying to speak like Virginia would have invariably sounded silly.
@Messylin you sicken me!. If you knew anything you would understand Woolf's conception that representation and perception are contingent on enumerable elements. If you can only grasp Kidman's performance as what you summarized you are truly a fool. Virginia is clouded in mystery and however much you argue her writings do not reflect her completely. The Hours was only a glimpse of what could be and you further marginalize this genius by being so hateful towards any other reflections on herself.
@Messylin I agree with you, but, on the other hand, we would have to really know if it was indeed Kidman's responsibility or rather the direction that was given to the character based on Cunningham's work, after all, _The Hours_ is an adaptation of his novel, and, therefore, HIS view on Virginia Woolf.
@Messylin I think Nicole Kidman did Virginia Woolf a favor. Nicole Kidman said if she tried to imitate Woolf's voice, she would sound foolish. I agree with Kidman. I think whether or not Nicole Kidman exactly portrayed Virginia Woolf, she would be shun because if she didn't... well, your comment is proof and if she did, I bet a lot of people would be mad at her poor imitation. I think you should give her a break...
@Messylin it is true, but the reason she did it was sadly in this day and age, people would hear it, and not take it very seiously, well at least that was her reasoning.
she was something really special... She sounds a bit old here, didn't think her voice was like that. I read 3 of her amazing work(to the lighthouse, waves, mrs dalloway) i'm working on orlando. Truly special masterpieces each one..
About 20 years ago I went to a day of lectures on Virginia Woolf at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Nigel Nicholson came and did a fairly brief talk and brought along with him his own recording of Virginia Woolf. I know 20 years is a long time but I remember being very taken aback by her very low voice. I just don't recall her sounding like this at all.What's taken me aback here is that this sounds nothing like what I remember hearing all those years back.This is very BBC
@goback3spaces sure, but it's not about "getting into" canonical work. the fact you're sharing in a literary achievement that has become canonical is its own reward... we don't have to love the things that are good for us for them to be of benefit.
@Shanniquitie All right, I just ... well ... there are other works in the canon that I couldn't get into, and I suppose there is a benefit to these works, but whether there's a deficiency in me or in them seems beside the point. Art is meant to give pleasure, and not all art will give pleasure to everyone. Other non-get-into-able novels for me would include WAR AND PEACE, MADAM BOVARY, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE AWAKENING ... do you want to kill me yet, Shanniquitie?
@goback3spaces i disagree that art is meant to give pleasure... maybe bourgeois art, but there it is. and no, i do not want to kill you. as far as i'm concerned, you seem quite dead already ;)
Why was it that Nicole Kidman regarded this recording as so strange as to be useless in putting together her impersonation of Virginia for THE HOURS? Virginia's voice is beautiful - her delivery is relaxed for someone unused to being recorded. How could her accent not be dated and intellectual sounding?
This woman was a master of the English language, written and spoken. Reading her letters is pure bliss and being able to hear her voice is like hearing some long-forgotten secret. She was such a treasure.
@choirfreak26 absolutely agree. Didn’t realize it even existed. Great fun listening to authors reading/interpreting their own work. Next best thing, and one of my greatest I-pod moments, on my bike listening to Virginia Leishman reading Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. “Leishman considers herself more a composer and musician than a thespian and sounds elegantly Victorian. Indeed, her breath control and phrasing superbly express the ornate diction of that era’s prose.”
Generally I hate snobby posh chicks, but I make an exception for this bird, I am her lapdog, slyly sniffing her at every opportunity, bad dog, bad dog lol
I heard about this recording in the BBC4 program "British Novelists - in their own words". The narrator said this was the only remaining recording of Virginia's.
The narrator also complained that thousands of minutes of other authors' voices were thrown away by BBC.
I would add: how is it possible that a Corporation which takes pride in being the "voice of the British people" throw away their best voices? Shame on those reckless and ignorant burocrats :(
Thank you for posting this. Virginia Woolf, for me, is among the most important writers of the 20th century if not the whole english language along with Edmund Spencer, James Joyce and Shakespear
Thank you for this wonderful recording of Virginia's voice... for a moment she is somehow alive again... The beloved never die, as long we carry them in our hearts and thoughts...
I love this parts:
"But words do not live in dictionaries; they live in the mind. If you want proof of this, consider how often in moments of emotion when we most need words we find none...
...they hate anything that stamps them with one meaning or confines them to one attitude, for it is their nature to change."
Just reading Mrs Dalloway for the first time. Stunning, never read anything like it- can't put it down. She really splits opinion though- my literature teacher really hates her. I can't get enough :D
@bloodbuddy7 you have good taste. Is your lit. teacher male? I only ask because I had a male lit. teacher who hated her too. Of course I then went and read anything by her that i could find.
@Joyshillaker Indeed he is. I don't really care what he thinks, cranky old man... She is brilliant, I have to keep her books in a different room or ask people to hide them so I don't keep reading them and actually do some work :P
I regard Virginia's aristocratic voice as a virtue, not something that should be considered embarrassing in this day and age. The woman spoke as well as she wrote, and had a great, all-abiding love of language. What's so bad about that?
(...) in that sense, if humanity takes strong attention about this premise, then humanity may live by itself completely, away of life as cliché, the life as machine, the life that never has been a genuine mankind eye.
It's incredible how calm and self-confident it is that voice from this woman here, in this situation (even within her stormy soul). What she said is not but the encounter with own truth (the own mind); "Words do not live in dictionaries, they live in the mind", (...)
HAHA! we should forget the history of our dear mother English because it would be benifical to the ladys reputation!! AAAAAAAAAAHHAHA. This woman is my inspiration for breathing! OMG she is brilliant and eloquent and freaking hilarious.
wow amazing thank you so much she was ahead of her time...all though after listening to this..the phrase is inapplicable. Thank you for this where did you pick this up??
In order to use new words, we have to invent new language Virginia Woolf said and she said english language is old and it is hard to use new words here, when language is hole sentence.
Queen Victoria, they say, was middle class queen and for sure she thought the russian tsar is mass murder, so she and her husband did that middle class idea on and on East Nature is first and always will be.
I got goose pimples to hear the real voice of Virginia Wolf. Yes 19th century, But what what a gentleness and what richness she gives to the English language!!
simply stunning!! but the greatest writer of the 20th Century?? does it make any sense, past a certain point, to quantify and weigh talent? then i would have to say marcel proust is even greater but no, i refuse to endorse this logic ;)
Of course she has the voice of a Victorian aristocrat, because that's what she was. What really matters is what she says... and what she says is conceptual, difficult, beautiful, witty, daring, original, and ferociously articulate. We are hearing the thoughts of a true genius, and it is wonderful.
This is an amazing piece of audio. Virginia in all her stream-of-consciousness. The greatest writer of the 20th Century, and one of the greatest of all time.
If it is her, her prononciation is not surprising, she was educated by victorian intellectuals, her vocabulary and education are 19thc, but she is a genius because she renewed the engish language for the 20th. She sounds like here voice in her essays here. i hope it is her. I feel happy to think I have heard her voice. But who knows.
Dear krtina455: Loved your comment - very woolfian in tone, texture and mood. Virgenius Woolf, wasn't she? (Back to "The String Quartet" now, for the 100th time this year. There's so much to be grasped there, time after time.) Take care!
That's truly amazing! :) That's the best Halloween gift I could ever dreamed of. I feel like touching a ghost, a piece of beautiful history! Thank you.
I was so so excited to hear Virginia's voice, but from the interviews of those who knew her best, they claim that this recording really didn't sound like Virginia at all.. here she sounds like a stuffy Victorian, but according to her acqaintances, is not her likeness at all. So who knows :(
Oh my GOD. I am so excited to hear this. She is my favorite auther. I've been reading her last diary and she had talked of her broadcast and I'd wondered but doubted wether this had survived or not. Ahh!!! this is so amazingly beautiful! Thank you SO much for sharing!!!!
Thank you very much indeed, Atthis22. Sharing this material is one of the best inspiration one can have, hearing the voice fo someone who went so deep into some of the really important matters of life. A unique piece.
I have recently have finished reading: "To The Lighthouse".
I felt like standing on a hill with the characters of the book beside me. We were not moving AT ALL, just staring at the sea. No sounds, no moves just a small breathe of air from time to time. Nothing! This feeling of watching life is AMAZING.
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TheMillersTale2001 3 days ago
"*ass" was intended for my dissenter, not Mrs. Woolf.
Morgy09 3 weeks ago
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Fuck!!! Really I listened to this over and over.
It blows my mind! Really!! It's like truth revealed.
It actually reflects how people are neglecting words.
Actually I further thought that it reflects the society
today of what people neglects too. Almost it's screaming
for someone to notice. Screaming and screaming
for someone who could see their individualities, the
characteristics of each. Where as in society,
sometimes I find myself pitied those who are screaming
because they are blind...
WhiteMasterHand 3 weeks ago
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WhiteMasterHand 3 weeks ago
Virginia, I love you so.
MsLadyLindy 3 weeks ago
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Morgy09 3 weeks ago
Negro words! I'm no linguist, but language is fluid. Pedantic critics concerning themselves with with insular (Western) parameters are unfulfilled in some other regard.
At any rate, that's how I choose to defend ebonics and the art of code-switching.
#OhLehDoIh
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Seems you payed no attention to what she said. If you did then you'd realize that you're in agreement with Mrs. Woolf. You payed no attention, because once you heard "negro" your fatuous sentiments clumped up into a barrier that no other thought could penetrate. The only thing insular is your own self. Western literature is masterful because it embraces the wide multitude of thoughts that you so completely lack.
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@anOPENEDbook So I suppose I should've added an LOL to imply farce.... You're entirely oblivious to any inference of wit. I said what I said because I AGREE with her ass. Do you think anyone interested in the musings of Woolf would be obtuse to her meaning? Seriously? Or do you just troll superfluous pedantics for fun? I heard "negro" because I am negro. Nothing fatuous about it. Prescient maybe. Your last statement is my exact sentiment. I chose to risibly champion her message. Good day.
Morgy09 3 weeks ago
I hate plumby accents. English, during the time of Shakespeare, did not sound like this rubbish.
stuvo1977 1 month ago
@stuvo1977 It isn't How it is said, It is What is said. If her voice and accent put you to sleep then read the transcript. You do not speak of the content at all. I would suggest this woman was a very intelligent person and your criticism is what you said in your complaint..rubbish.
Baxterzone 1 month ago
Her voice and accent put me to sleep.
stuvo1977 1 month ago
I read VW in college, I always was intrested in why she choice death over the pain of realaism. Was she a coward, or saw the truth that very little matters in the uncontrol of what is death? Of course, her noritarity was a means of stepping over the meaningless of life, her fame will live along time, wicked means to have an after life, and yet give up a real live. That does sound like a deal with a devalish mind. Intelect never dies, but at what cost. Love the movie "Hours."
dogboy4u 1 month ago
@tamkukushka probably a lot worse off than we already are, at least in consideration of the canon. Doucher.
calebj1304 2 months ago
It is wonderful to hear "the voice" that inspired so many of us, as writers and feminists. To read her diaries and letters over these many years was always such a delight. As this is the only surviving recording of Virginia Woolf's voice, and she is commenting on language and words, hearing her voice has made my day!!
dtj49er 3 months ago 2
wonderful to listen to the English spoken by VW,the English I heard spoken as a small child,she has a true Edwardian voice.
nevanovna 3 months ago
xXBronzedBalletXx...that pretty much sums up your inability to appreciate the meaning behind what she's saying.
spot5 4 months ago
women used to sound like women. now they sound like freeze-timed little girls "like o m geeee!". no power, no maturity. this is what an intelligent woman sounds like.
MartyredxMaiden 4 months ago 8
@MartyredxMaiden Women still sound like women. You also might want to be grammatically correct when you talk about intelligence. Just saying.
xblackcigarette 2 weeks ago
@xblackcigarette did you just talk about grammatical correctness when I was satirically ridiculing modern day vernacular? Please, find better ways to troll the internet. You spelling and grammar people don't understand that, the internet is a shitland, and no one gives a wiggling maggot-infested turd about getting an A plus in SPELLING/GRAMMAR in a quickly written, my-two-cents comment box. Come on, dude -_- Nice. You disagree with my comment, Say that instead of be a petty, pedantic buttclog,
MartyredxMaiden 2 weeks ago
Thank you, this has been added to our playlists here, and on facebook, :)
PoetryETrain 4 months ago
I'd listed to this, but I'm afraid.
mattgriffin42 4 months ago
To find a new language, such as lovers use...(The Waves)
AAwildeone 4 months ago
Wow, I can barely understand her.
xXBronzedBalletXx 4 months ago
jesus...what a woman. i was just reading orlando and i came upon this wonderful gem of wisdom. thank you a million for this upload.
jormundgard 4 months ago
I find it incredibly thrilling simply to hear her voice! The way she wrote was just breathtaking; music in the form of words. She was a true craftswoman of the English language, I completely agree. I also quite enjoyed the slideshow of beautiful photographs.
I visited Monk's House in East Sussex; a lovely place.
FallenStarPoetess 4 months ago 2
thumbs if your english teacher sent you running here
laserletsplays 4 months ago
If Anyone can go to wikipedia now, read the 'last note to her husband' and not shed a tear, they are inhuman
smurfygoovy 5 months ago
people end their lives because the pain is too much to bear, am not sure if a Bishop coul dhave helped her, the life of a writer/poet/artists is so raw that it is often the only solution I'm afraid, how thin can your skin be? A bishop willnot help, with his silly old god.
insomnia759 5 months ago
Love it. Thanks for upload
SandrineSoprano 5 months ago
I'm absolutely shocked - Ive spent so much of my life reading her works, admiring her on a million different levels - I had no idea her voice had been recorded! This is a gift beyond gifts...thankyouthankyou!!!
StephanieLisaTara 5 months ago
I suggest you all watch "The Hours". I understand Virginia Woolf so much better now that I have seen that film.
tempewise 5 months ago
A bishop could have counseled without her ending her life.
harliette 5 months ago
Every word has a history, and that history includes the first time one utters it; the first time one learned it; one's emotional states at various times when uttering it; and whom one was interacting with while utttering it. :-)
Nonpeon 6 months ago
A fascinating genius.
LocustaVampa 6 months ago
@wevelostDon That's precisely why we ladies revere her so! She stood out in a world where women were not meant to and was proud of it. I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'while some queen told her what to do' though. Virginia was still rather young when Queen Victoria died.
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Almost finished To the Lighthouse, the first book by her that I've read. All I can say is... what a revelation. I knew it would be my favourite book by the time I was 30 pages in.
amiablesnowman 7 months ago
@amiablesnowman So glad to see someone else who knew so readily that Woolf's writing was brilliant! My favourite is Jacob's Room, followed by The Waves; I'm sure you'd love those too, although the writing style in those is much more psychologically based and modernist. In other words, it took me longer to fully 'get into' the novel as I was having to think about the stylistics of the work more. It's 100% worth it though!
MissClareCharlotte 6 months ago
@MissClareCharlotte I looked up your recommendations. The language in the opening of The Waves is quite hard to grasp, but in a way more beautiful because of it. The concept for Jacob's Room sounds interesting - of introducing Jacob's character only through others' impressions of him. I think I'll read Mrs Dalloway and Jacob's Room next. Thanks for the recommendations!
amiablesnowman 6 months ago
@amiablesnowman "To the Lighthouse" is also fantastic. Also check out her memoirs. There's a collection of them called "Moments of Being." They are superb. READ EVERYTHING! lol :)
baughskeet 5 months ago
I think I'm going to write down what she says so that I can study it more closely.
Very nice selection of photographs. I had necer seen so many of her! She had a fascinating presence, elegance and intelligence from head to toe.
BurnSheDevil 7 months ago
It upsets me how Nicole Kidman was too lazy to become the woman she was supposed to be playing on film. In her arrogance, she horrendously failed to intelligently honour the legacy of this great mind - portraying her as a spiteful and self-absorbed ghoul! Her performance doesn't even begin the capture the sharpness, gravitas and sparkling wit of the real Woolf. It is devastating to think how people picture Kidman's Woolf when they think of her - brooding in halls and bitching at her husband!
Messylin 7 months ago 19
@Messylin There is a video on the making of the film on youtube (user coconutmilk83). Quite interesting to hear Nicole talk about the role. It was never her wish to try to capture Virginia literally, more an exercise in trying to find an appropriate character for the movie. She even mentions how her accent is nothing like Virginia's speaking voice, noting that trying to speak like Virginia would have invariably sounded silly.
youlittleone 7 months ago
@Messylin blame the writer and the director, not the actress!!!
nicelydone31 4 months ago
@Messylin Well who are you to say what the real Virginia Woolf was like?
Urbanista21 4 months ago
@Messylin you sicken me!. If you knew anything you would understand Woolf's conception that representation and perception are contingent on enumerable elements. If you can only grasp Kidman's performance as what you summarized you are truly a fool. Virginia is clouded in mystery and however much you argue her writings do not reflect her completely. The Hours was only a glimpse of what could be and you further marginalize this genius by being so hateful towards any other reflections on herself.
calebj1304 4 months ago 2
@Messylin I agree with you, but, on the other hand, we would have to really know if it was indeed Kidman's responsibility or rather the direction that was given to the character based on Cunningham's work, after all, _The Hours_ is an adaptation of his novel, and, therefore, HIS view on Virginia Woolf.
Withnonickname 3 months ago
@Messylin I think Nicole Kidman did Virginia Woolf a favor. Nicole Kidman said if she tried to imitate Woolf's voice, she would sound foolish. I agree with Kidman. I think whether or not Nicole Kidman exactly portrayed Virginia Woolf, she would be shun because if she didn't... well, your comment is proof and if she did, I bet a lot of people would be mad at her poor imitation. I think you should give her a break...
megahungry100 2 months ago
@megahungry100 - I am so sorry if I came off as pretentious. I don't want to alienate, I just want to challenge.
Messylin 2 months ago
@Messylin it is true, but the reason she did it was sadly in this day and age, people would hear it, and not take it very seiously, well at least that was her reasoning.
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@tamkukushka Shame on you. I'm ashamed to have your words here within any mention of her.
bethanyw203 8 months ago
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whotaughtyou 8 months ago
she was something really special... She sounds a bit old here, didn't think her voice was like that. I read 3 of her amazing work(to the lighthouse, waves, mrs dalloway) i'm working on orlando. Truly special masterpieces each one..
animeheartofpassion 9 months ago
a real treasure .
spankbandit 9 months ago
Thanks! for inclusion of quality captioning.
So many benefit.
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siglmgga 9 months ago
My God.
9juliet2 9 months ago
About 20 years ago I went to a day of lectures on Virginia Woolf at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Nigel Nicholson came and did a fairly brief talk and brought along with him his own recording of Virginia Woolf. I know 20 years is a long time but I remember being very taken aback by her very low voice. I just don't recall her sounding like this at all.What's taken me aback here is that this sounds nothing like what I remember hearing all those years back.This is very BBC
feewebb 10 months ago
This is great :) I like the way she pointed out about the "WORDS."
MsSophia2526 10 months ago
quelle émotion d'entendre sa voix. Dommage qu'il n'y ait pas un sous-titre, mais c'est mieux, pour écouter sa voix, de ne pas tout comprendre...
miyuko31 11 months ago
Good heavens! Really, what an amazing, fine voice and mind! What refinement! Wherever is the like of it to be found in these very vulgar days?
craigenputtock 11 months ago
Can you believe that in one year, 72.000 people have listened this?
martamg27 11 months ago
in a fit of pique, she just walked into a river and did away with herself yourstruly...
SteviJobs 1 year ago
@SteviJobs she struggled with mental illness most of her life. a "fit of pique"? you're either unbearably camp, or damnably cruel.
Shanniquitie 10 months ago
The only way for me to get to know her is by lucid dreaming. I hope I can see her in my dreams one day, I would learn a lot from her. I love her :(
arturomayorga 1 year ago
thanks so much for this!
zauber04 1 year ago 2
Truly English at its best!
dawncoming 1 year ago 5
I slugged through MRS. DALLOWAY. Couldn't get into it.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces what a shame. but very brave of you to admit your ignorance.
Shanniquitie 10 months ago
@Shanniquitie What am I ignorant about? Has there ever been a novel in the canon that wasn't your cup of tea?
goback3spaces 10 months ago
@goback3spaces sure, but it's not about "getting into" canonical work. the fact you're sharing in a literary achievement that has become canonical is its own reward... we don't have to love the things that are good for us for them to be of benefit.
Shanniquitie 10 months ago
@Shanniquitie All right, I just ... well ... there are other works in the canon that I couldn't get into, and I suppose there is a benefit to these works, but whether there's a deficiency in me or in them seems beside the point. Art is meant to give pleasure, and not all art will give pleasure to everyone. Other non-get-into-able novels for me would include WAR AND PEACE, MADAM BOVARY, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE AWAKENING ... do you want to kill me yet, Shanniquitie?
goback3spaces 10 months ago
@goback3spaces i disagree that art is meant to give pleasure... maybe bourgeois art, but there it is. and no, i do not want to kill you. as far as i'm concerned, you seem quite dead already ;)
Shanniquitie 10 months ago
@Shanniquitie When we dead awaken, I'll let you know.
goback3spaces 10 months ago
like a holiday by the sea
mohonsen 1 year ago
Why was it that Nicole Kidman regarded this recording as so strange as to be useless in putting together her impersonation of Virginia for THE HOURS? Virginia's voice is beautiful - her delivery is relaxed for someone unused to being recorded. How could her accent not be dated and intellectual sounding?
dodacon 1 year ago
This woman was a master of the English language, written and spoken. Reading her letters is pure bliss and being able to hear her voice is like hearing some long-forgotten secret. She was such a treasure.
choirfreak26 1 year ago 57
@choirfreak26 absolutely agree. Didn’t realize it even existed. Great fun listening to authors reading/interpreting their own work. Next best thing, and one of my greatest I-pod moments, on my bike listening to Virginia Leishman reading Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. “Leishman considers herself more a composer and musician than a thespian and sounds elegantly Victorian. Indeed, her breath control and phrasing superbly express the ornate diction of that era’s prose.”
BwanaPapyrus 1 month ago
@ Itisjinzo porque ela se matou?
TheMrkiller2010 1 year ago
I found this thanks to a woman's literary magazine in Italy, great piece of footage of one of the geniouses of our time...
68generation 1 year ago
My heart is settled from hearing her.
Ypipable 1 year ago 3
This woman was quite literally, A genius.
dylanbonnar 1 year ago
Generally I hate snobby posh chicks, but I make an exception for this bird, I am her lapdog, slyly sniffing her at every opportunity, bad dog, bad dog lol
tomosart 1 year ago
Is there a particular name of the portrait of Mrs Woolf at 7.07?
pianor91 1 year ago
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mucil87 1 year ago
You are my hero!
mucil87 1 year ago
Absolutely Beautiful
SakuraLovesTotoro12 1 year ago
I heard about this recording in the BBC4 program "British Novelists - in their own words". The narrator said this was the only remaining recording of Virginia's.
The narrator also complained that thousands of minutes of other authors' voices were thrown away by BBC.
I would add: how is it possible that a Corporation which takes pride in being the "voice of the British people" throw away their best voices? Shame on those reckless and ignorant burocrats :(
tubemrjfm 1 year ago
A version of text for this recording is the essay "craftsmanship". this version, I believe, was called "words fail me".
Also she wasn't really a Victorian (her parents were) and she certainly wasn't an aristocrat.
gmvp73 1 year ago
Er einhver frá Ensku 503 úr Fá?
funyjoyappel 1 year ago
@funyjoyappel Haha Já :D
japanesepoliceman 1 year ago
@funyjoyappel Jáháts!
japanesepoliceman 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this. Virginia Woolf, for me, is among the most important writers of the 20th century if not the whole english language along with Edmund Spencer, James Joyce and Shakespear
pintogallo 1 year ago
@pintogallo She hated Joyce!!! Just thought I should mention it! Hehe...
AtlaZac 1 year ago
i simply love it. Can't stop playing it over and over. Thanks so much!!
aNGEliqk 1 year ago
How blind or deaf one is not to know of her..The.Bonegilla kid
TheBonegillaKid 1 year ago
Wow.
jmwilliams110 1 year ago
Thank you for this wonderful recording of Virginia's voice... for a moment she is somehow alive again... The beloved never die, as long we carry them in our hearts and thoughts...
I love this parts:
"But words do not live in dictionaries; they live in the mind. If you want proof of this, consider how often in moments of emotion when we most need words we find none...
...they hate anything that stamps them with one meaning or confines them to one attitude, for it is their nature to change."
Ilkamy 1 year ago 19
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is this what they call British gibberish? :))
Rawego 1 year ago
Just reading Mrs Dalloway for the first time. Stunning, never read anything like it- can't put it down. She really splits opinion though- my literature teacher really hates her. I can't get enough :D
bloodbuddy7 1 year ago
@bloodbuddy7 I'm sorry, but your literature teacher must be insane, she is beautiful.
Magtelite 1 year ago
@bloodbuddy7 keep reading her everything she wrote is just wonderful, the best. sorry about your teacher, ignore him or her. peace and love your way.
findingarainbow 1 year ago
@bloodbuddy7 you have good taste. Is your lit. teacher male? I only ask because I had a male lit. teacher who hated her too. Of course I then went and read anything by her that i could find.
Joyshillaker 1 year ago
@Joyshillaker Indeed he is. I don't really care what he thinks, cranky old man... She is brilliant, I have to keep her books in a different room or ask people to hide them so I don't keep reading them and actually do some work :P
bloodbuddy7 1 year ago
This is wonderful, thanks to whoever found this and shared it with all of us..what a treat to hear her talk about writing and words.
ryugin511 1 year ago
THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!
AtlaZac 1 year ago
Beautiful use of language complemented by an equally beautiful rich English voice. A very enlightening commentary.
lelvish1 1 year ago
thanks for posting this, I have been a fan of her literature ever since I read 'to the lighthouse' early on!
HeartBrokeDownBlue 1 year ago
I regard Virginia's aristocratic voice as a virtue, not something that should be considered embarrassing in this day and age. The woman spoke as well as she wrote, and had a great, all-abiding love of language. What's so bad about that?
MrHeslopian 1 year ago 2
beautiful
Tordy1 1 year ago 2
(...) in that sense, if humanity takes strong attention about this premise, then humanity may live by itself completely, away of life as cliché, the life as machine, the life that never has been a genuine mankind eye.
It's a great honor to have listened her.
drowned3 1 year ago
It's incredible how calm and self-confident it is that voice from this woman here, in this situation (even within her stormy soul). What she said is not but the encounter with own truth (the own mind); "Words do not live in dictionaries, they live in the mind", (...)
drowned3 1 year ago
full of wits... words live in the mind, not in the dictionary! What a good saying!
december40 1 year ago
The creativity , the beauty, the common sense, she displays in just in these few minutes is truly astonishing. She was a genius
blessOTMA 1 year ago
I can't believe that I'm hearing her voice...
TheMohdd00 1 year ago
HAHA! we should forget the history of our dear mother English because it would be benifical to the ladys reputation!! AAAAAAAAAAHHAHA. This woman is my inspiration for breathing! OMG she is brilliant and eloquent and freaking hilarious.
TheJP15 1 year ago
Thank you so much for this. Words simply cannot describe my feelings at the moment.
chirpsforcookies 1 year ago
her style of writng is impeccably modern and very vague, but once you get in to it,,,,, ahhhhhhhhhhhhh
marrieter08 1 year ago
This is hilarious!! I love it!
TheTrapeze 1 year ago
I love you Virginia.
steppenwolfist 1 year ago
wow amazing thank you so much she was ahead of her time...all though after listening to this..the phrase is inapplicable. Thank you for this where did you pick this up??
postedupondaconna 1 year ago
That....was....mindblowing. I think that just changed me.
Ferratonue 1 year ago 3
Fantastic. Thank you!
nebrulla 1 year ago 2
well said
swirlypuff 1 year ago 2
Many thanks! Fabulous for me to find this! Superb posting!
LindsayCurran 2 years ago
In order to use new words, we have to invent new language Virginia Woolf said and she said english language is old and it is hard to use new words here, when language is hole sentence.
TheNataliaRR 2 years ago
Queen Victoria, they say, was middle class queen and for sure she thought the russian tsar is mass murder, so she and her husband did that middle class idea on and on East Nature is first and always will be.
TheNataliaRR 2 years ago
I got goose pimples to hear the real voice of Virginia Wolf. Yes 19th century, But what what a gentleness and what richness she gives to the English language!!
Daniel
Anjapiranha 2 years ago 2
No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
walserable 2 years ago 3
@ walserable
That's lovely. Is it Shakespeare?
krtina455 2 years ago 2
@krtina455 It is from Macbeth, II, 2. :)
Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me, when every noise appalls me?
What hands are here? Hah! They pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
GODSAWAYONBUSINESS 1 year ago 2
Emouvant témoignage pour qui ne connaît VW que par ses textes..
zouc11 2 years ago 3
"... the splendid word "incarnadine"..." - so splendidly enunciated...
panayotisioannidis 2 years ago 3
simply stunning!! but the greatest writer of the 20th Century?? does it make any sense, past a certain point, to quantify and weigh talent? then i would have to say marcel proust is even greater but no, i refuse to endorse this logic ;)
ILOVEMFEO 2 years ago
Of course she has the voice of a Victorian aristocrat, because that's what she was. What really matters is what she says... and what she says is conceptual, difficult, beautiful, witty, daring, original, and ferociously articulate. We are hearing the thoughts of a true genius, and it is wonderful.
ElectricLabel 2 years ago 74
This is an amazing piece of audio. Virginia in all her stream-of-consciousness. The greatest writer of the 20th Century, and one of the greatest of all time.
ElectricLabel 2 years ago 4
If it is her, her prononciation is not surprising, she was educated by victorian intellectuals, her vocabulary and education are 19thc, but she is a genius because she renewed the engish language for the 20th. She sounds like here voice in her essays here. i hope it is her. I feel happy to think I have heard her voice. But who knows.
marshhen 2 years ago 3
She's divine!
denver8067 2 years ago 2
amazing! I admire and esteem Virginia Woolf endlessly, and hearing this is simply amazing!
yda1740 2 years ago 2
i'm writting a novel about Virginia... Please Virginia... give me the strenght to be part of your life and see the things as you saw them
leerpega89 2 years ago 2
good luck...
sizzlefashizzle 2 years ago
I can't believe she said "perhaps one reason we have no great poet, novelist, or critic writing today"!!
Why Virginia -- YOU were writing.
krtina455 2 years ago
Dear krtina455: Loved your comment - very woolfian in tone, texture and mood. Virgenius Woolf, wasn't she? (Back to "The String Quartet" now, for the 100th time this year. There's so much to be grasped there, time after time.) Take care!
mancebo7 2 years ago
This is her genius alive for this new generation.
I am moved in ways that I have not the words to describe.
tippngthevelvet 2 years ago
Sounds strange, a bit like a foreigner speaking English.
Kynos1 2 years ago
That's truly amazing! :) That's the best Halloween gift I could ever dreamed of. I feel like touching a ghost, a piece of beautiful history! Thank you.
Agnieszka, Poland.
Bergamotka 2 years ago 2
I was so so excited to hear Virginia's voice, but from the interviews of those who knew her best, they claim that this recording really didn't sound like Virginia at all.. here she sounds like a stuffy Victorian, but according to her acqaintances, is not her likeness at all. So who knows :(
RuqaiyyaNoor 2 years ago
She's a genius! A Master of Literature!
firehacker179 2 years ago
Astonishing. Youtube is a miracle. Much respect.
souljaEXVOTO 2 years ago 2
My God ... This is the Virginia's Voice!
Thanks for post it ...
I love Virginia Woolf. She's wonderful ... I'm speechless ... I'm in tears ...
DantinaDB 2 years ago 4
thank you for the enjoyment of hearing this recording of Ms Woolf, I'm gonna try to learn that essay of by heart,. it is gripping x
MusicmanBing 2 years ago
I love everyone who has commented on this; it's so good to see people who admire real literature :)
ShamanMick 2 years ago 7
Exactly ! And it's so great to be able to hear your favourite author's voice :-)
polychronistheo 2 years ago
Oh my GOD. I am so excited to hear this. She is my favorite auther. I've been reading her last diary and she had talked of her broadcast and I'd wondered but doubted wether this had survived or not. Ahh!!! this is so amazingly beautiful! Thank you SO much for sharing!!!!
RuthieBetteDavis 2 years ago 2
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SethHesio 2 years ago 2
words belong together...uneducated words are as good as educated words, uncultivated as good as cultivated, this is true
astara824 2 years ago 2
If anybody has the a clip of this, please contact me. This is priceless.
7as7e7herainbow 2 years ago
Kew Gardens has to be the most beautiful short story ever written.
KaiserAl32 2 years ago 2
Omg , her voice is so gentle...great, she wa the biggest from big writers.
MissAnna211991 2 years ago 3
Thank you very much indeed, Atthis22. Sharing this material is one of the best inspiration one can have, hearing the voice fo someone who went so deep into some of the really important matters of life. A unique piece.
archer732000 2 years ago 2
the first time i have heard the voice of a woman whose art and life has obsessed me since childhood....thank you...x
MATTDUNCAN1 2 years ago 5
I have recently have finished reading: "To The Lighthouse".
I felt like standing on a hill with the characters of the book beside me. We were not moving AT ALL, just staring at the sea. No sounds, no moves just a small breathe of air from time to time. Nothing! This feeling of watching life is AMAZING.
gsavakis 2 years ago 6