Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf in the Classroom--Teaching Materials ... [Read More]

NEA Writers' Corner: Jacqueline Lyons
Above my writing desk I have posted this quotation byVirginia Woolf: "It is in our idleness, in our dreams,that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top."I take "truth" to mean the individual, the original.The NEA grant gives to writers our hottest commodity:time. I have already been able to take one summer offof paid labor to write, and will do the same the nexttwo summers. I do believe that a writer needs timeenough to hear through the world's white noise inorder to tune into her own voice and poetry. Part thework for my first book was to spend a lot of timethinking and reinhabiting the setting of my PeaceCorps days in Southern Africa. My present project,which imagines different details and a different fatefor Roanoke's Lost Colony, has so far involved readinga range of Renaissance texts, as well as thinkingabout perception and the nuances of encounters withthe new and the strange. ... [Read More]

The Blue Moon: March/April 05: Sena Jeter Naslund Appointed Poet Laureate
Although proficient in male-centered stories, and an admirer of male authors (Dickens and Faulkner are important to her as well as Ernest J. Gaines), the women's movement strongly influences Naslund's writing. A devotee of Toni Morrison, Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Conner and Virginia Woolf, Sena Jeter Naslund writes comfortably from a female perspective. She says, "Virginia Woolf's humanistic philosophy means very much to me. Woolf was able to find a fiction form that translates her vision, her ideology. Most people aren't engaged in large, heroic actions. It's the inner life that really counts. Ordinary life is of such immense value in itself, particularly when emotion flows from one person to another at any moment." In Ahab's Wife , Naslund created a memorable female heroine with an independent spiritand strength - Una. The character has a certain sweetness about her but also the fierceness of a survivor. ... [Read More]

Research Activities, December 2004: Patient Safety/Quality: Many primary care errors stem from problems with access to clinicians and doctor/patient interaction
Details are in "Patient reports of preventable problems and harms in primary health care," by Anton J. Kuzel, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. Woolf, Valerie J. Gilchrist, M.D., and others, in the July 2004 Annals of Family Medicine 2(4), pp. 333-340. ...

For the study, which was supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (HS11117), Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., of Virginia Commonwealth University, and his colleagues conducted in-depth interviews with 38 adults from rural, suburban, and urban locales in Virginia and Ohio. Their goal was to solicit stories of preventable problems with primary health care that led to physical or psychological harm. ... [Read More]

Women in Art and Literature -- National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
In her 1928 A Room of One's Own , Virginia Woolf explored the social constraints that limited women's literary and artistic production. Talent, even genius, counted for little, Woolf mused, without financial resources and privacy to nurture it. The houses of writers and artists in this tour eloquently demonstrate Woolf's classic thesis. The space, comfort, and privacy of many of these buildings reveal the class privilege that sustained the creative work of women such as Margaret Fuller, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edith Wharton. ... [Read More]

The Evolving Role of Prevention in Health Care: Contributions of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Address correspondence to: Steven H. Woolf, M.D., M.P.H., Virginia Commonwealth University, Medical College of Virginia, 3712 Charles Stewart Drive, Fairfax, VA 22033. E-mail: shwoolf@aol.com. ... [Read More]

The Evolving Role of Prevention in Health Care: Contributions of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Source: Woolf SH and Atkins D. The evolving role of prevention in health care: Contributions of the U.S. Preventive Services TaskForce. Am J Prev Med 2001;20(3S):13-20 (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ajpmonline). ...

The Evolving Role of Prevention in Health Care: Contributions of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force . Article originally in Am J Prev Med 2001;20(3S):13-20. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ajpmsuppl/woolf1.htm ... [Read More]

EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
“The English novelist Virginia Woolf declared that human nature underwent a fundamental change "on or about December 1910." The statement testifies to the modern writer's fervent desire to break with the past, rejecting literary traditions that seemed outmoded and diction that seemed too genteel to suit an era of technological breakthroughs and global violence.” ... [Read More]