Tuesday, January 5, 2016

TIDDLYWINKYDINKS: VIRGINIA WOOLF IN THE TELEVISION UNIVERSE


From Wikipedia:

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a central figure in the influential Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals. 

Her most famous works include the novels "Mrs Dalloway" (1925), "To the Lighthouse" (1927) and "Orlando" (1928), and the book-length essay "A Room of One's Own" (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Woolf suffered from severe bouts of mental illness throughout her life, thought to have been what is now termed bipolar disorder, and committed suicide by drowning in 1941 at the age of 59.


RECASTAWAY TOOBWORLD
"Life in Squares" 
Played by Lydia Leonard
    - Episode #1.1 (2015) 
Played by Catherine McCormack
[This was a case of recastaways.  It's best to keep it out of Earth Prime-Time.]

EARTH PRIME-TIME or TV'S TOOBWORLD
"Doll & Em"
    - Episode #2.4 (2015) TV episode, Played by Erica Fae
[I think an actress is playing the role in a stage play by Dolly.]

EARTH PRIME-TIME
"Downton Abbey"
    - Episode #4.1 (2013) 
Played by Christina Carty

SKITLANDIA
"Psychobitches"
    - Episode #1.2 (2013) 
Played by Sharon Horgan

SPANISH SKITLANDIA
"Muchachada nui"
    - Episode #4.13 (2010)
    - Episode #4.11 (2010)
    - Episode #4.7 (2010)
Played by Joaquín Reyes

TOOBWORLD-MOTW 2
London (2004) 
Played by Harriet Walter

DOCU-TOOBWORLD 2
"Art That Shook the World"
    - Virginia Woolf's Orlando (2002) 
Played by Joley Richardson

TOOBWORLD-MOTW 1
A Room of One's Own (1991)
Played by Eileen Atkins

DOCU-TOOBWORLD 1
"Ten Great Writers of the Modern World"
    - Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' (1988) 
Played by Eileen Atkins

FRENCH TOOBWORLD
"Une femme, une époque"
    - Virginia Woolf (1981) 
Played by Maud Rayer


O'BSERVATION:
I never noticed her in that Season 4 episode of 'Downton Abbey', but in the sixth season premiere she was mentioned again in connection to that earlier appearance.

BCnU!




1 comment:

Andrew Brook said...

In "Doll & Em" Viriginia Woolf just sort of turns up to talk to Emily Mortimer. Hallucination? Ghost? Who knows?