{"id":5475,"date":"2021-09-09T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5475"},"modified":"2022-03-09T23:47:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T23:47:54","slug":"dorothy-stracheys-1949-novel-olivia-on-zoom-october-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=5475","title":{"rendered":"Dorothy Strachey’s 1949 novel “Olivia” on Zoom, October 13!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Dorothy Strachey (1865-1960), sister of the writer Lytton Strachey, was a Bloomsbury insider.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Please join Stanford’s Robert Pogue Harrison<\/strong><\/a>, Maria Florence Massucco<\/a><\/strong>, and Tobias Wolff<\/strong><\/a>, for a webinar discussion of Dorothy Strachey<\/strong>\u2019s 1949 novel, Olivia.<\/em>The event will take place 5:00-6:30 p.m. (PST) on Wednesday, October 13. Given the ongoing COVID situation, this will be a virtual event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stanford\u2019s Prof. Robert Harrison, an acclaimed author and director of Another Look, will lead the discussion, joined by the eminent novelist Tobias Wolff, founding director of Another Look and a National Medal of Arts winner. Massucco, a PhD candidate in Italian Studies who specializes in the 20th century novel, will round out the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andr\u00e9 Gide calledOlivia<\/em>\u201ca little masterpiece,\u201d and we think you\u2019ll agree. The story traces the intense emotional currents among the girls and teachers in a finishing school outside Paris. Olivia, a 16-year-old English girl, finds herself falling under the spell of the charismatic Mademoiselle Julie, a founder of the school.The Times<\/em>(London)praisedOlivia<\/em>\u2019s \u201cstrange combination of strength and delicacy\u201d and theWall Street Journal<\/em>noted that the book is \u201cextravagantly French in its sensibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorothy Strachey and her famous brother, the writer Lytton Strachey, were prominent in the Bloomsbury group.Olivia<\/em> is her only novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book is available through Amazon (also on Kindle), as well as Stanford Bookstore (650-329-1217) Kepler\u2019s in Menlo Park (650-324-4321), and Bell\u2019s Books in Palo Alto (650-323-7822). Secondhand copies are also available on Abebooks<\/a>as well. If all else fails, you can order directly from Penguin at 800-793-2665, but allow for delivery time and shipping costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like all our events, this webinar is free and open to the public, but please register on the link below. See you on Zoom!

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Please join Stanford’s Robert Pogue Harrison, Maria Florence Massucco, and Tobias Wolff, for a webinar discussion of Dorothy Strachey\u2019s 1949 novel, Olivia.The event will take place 5:00-6:30 p.m. (PST) on Wednesday, October 13. Given the ongoing COVID situation, this will … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}