What did Virginia Woolf think about Easter? by Paula Maggio

What did Virginia Woolf think about Easter? by Paula Maggio (läs: HÄR.)

It’s Easter. And I read Virginia Woolf. So this morning a question occurred to me, “What did Virginia Woolf think about Easter?” I turned to Jane de Gay to find out. Revd Professor Jane de Gay is professor of English literature at Leeds Trinity University and an Anglican priest serving a predominantly Caribbean congregation at St. Martin’s Potternewton, Leeds.

The Woolf scholar and author of the book, Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture, wrote a series of posts about Woolf and Holy Week in 2019, the year after her book came out.

Her final one, titled “Easter Sunday,” included this quote from Woolf on Easter Sunday in 1937:
"Again I take my tiny little flutter, with the accursed Xtian bells ringing – however, dulled as they are with 500 years or more at Rodmell I cant seriously dislike them." (Diary 5, 72)

Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture (2018) av Jane De Gay

Reveals Virginia Woolf's interest in Christianity, its ideas and cultural artefacts This wide-ranging study demonstrates that Woolf, despite her agnostic upbringing, was profoundly interested in, and knowledgeable about, Christianity as a faith and a socio-political movement. Jane de Gay provides a strongly contextual approach, first revealing the extent of the Christian influences on Woolf's upbringing, including an analysis of the far-reaching influence of the Clapham Sect, and then drawing attention to the importance of Christianity among Woolf's friends and associates. It shows that Woolf's awareness of the ongoing influence of Christian ideas and institutions informed her feminist critique of society in Three Guineas. The book sheds new light on works including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves by revealing her fascination with the clergy, the Madonna, churches and cathedrals