Money and a room of their own, that was what women needed to write a novel, according to Virginia Woolf
Writing in a room of your own in Bloomsbury is too much pressure . They want to break the sheet and go out to eat fish and chips. The problem is that Word it cannot be broken and only cowards or lazy people flee. Also, not every day you can write in a room (more or less your own) in the neighborhood where Virginia Woolf and her gang wrote, lived and loved.
Money and a room of your own. According to Virginia Woolf that was what they needed women to write a novel . She was so wide. She published it in 1929 in A Room of One's Own , an essay on women and their intellectual freedom.
Bloomsbury Hotel has a bohemian, home-for-ever-life feel but with a bit of irony
Behind this provocation sat a thesis that defended that only when there is material well-being , time and silence could be created. And, who were the ones who had enjoyed that until then? Correct answer: the men . The theory of your own room flies over you when you open the door to this room. What responsibility: sleep and write inside the symbol.
I beg you to imagine a room like there are thousands , with a window that, above the hats of the people, and the trucks and automobiles, looks at other windows and on the table inside the room a large blank sheet of paper with the inscription Women and the Novel and nothing more.
Woolf published A Room of One's Own in 1929, an essay on women and their intellectual freedom.
We started bad. In this room of Bloomsbury Hotel is not going to start any novel, if perhaps this little article. On the table are some bottles of water and a few books and magazines about the neighborhood and what's happening in London this week. Nor is it a room like thousands of others; as much as one hundred and fifty-three , which are the rooms in this hotel.
I wish everyone was so beautiful and had this bohemian air and of house-good-of-all-life but with a certain irony. I wish everyone could lean back in these armchairs and surround themselves with this furniture that seems to have been collected from trips around the world, or recovered from a house in Sussex.
There are not so many rooms with this botanically inspired wallpaper, with this palette that plays with maroons, bottle greens and peacock blues.
The table is near the black and white marble bathroom, with a free-standing bathtub and bathroom amenities. Aromatherapy Associates . Virginia Woolf and her gang, who were so accustomed to living well, would have liked her. In a very meta exercise at the tables of the Bloomsbury Hotel There are books on the history of the Bloomsbury Hotel . What a story.
Black and white marble and Aromatherapy Associates amenities coexist in the bathroom
This building of Lutyens He's been in this neighborhood since 1928. The architect was inspired by the dollhouse of the queen mary . One of the little books in the room tells that Queen Elizabeth and her sister Margarita, when they were still princesses, escaped to the hotel, which was then YWCA's Central Club , to have tea and do what girls of her age do. So, this neighborhood, with its air between intellectual and hip, He was a magnet for artists or aspiring artists.
The British Museum, publishing houses and the University of London set the tone . The hotel building has undergone a total (and multi-million dollar) renovation by the Irish group The Doyle Collection, which has commissioned the architecture and design studio Martin Brudnizki Design All the project. Brudnizki's goal was to preserve the spirit of the neighborhood: for it to be a meeting point, a social place and to maintain its air of posh bohemia. Let's call things by their names: bohemian and posh.
Dolloway Terrace is one of the most sought after restaurants for its terrace 365 days a year
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has eaten badly. The lamp in the marrow is not lit by boiled meat and plums."
This was also written by Woolf, we want to think that in a room like this . It is one of her most reproduced quotes from her because, how easy it is to identify with her. In this room you can think, love and sleep more than well.
Nevertheless, all this would be incomplete if the food did not accompany . Fortunately, the hotel restaurants do not serve boiled meat or plums.
In the Dalloway Terrace they eat some lobster mac'ncheese and one crab toast that would have delighted the Bloomsburys . This is one of the hotel's restaurants and one of the most popular for its terrace 365 days a year. Its plants, its blankets and its perfect temperature make it one of the most sought-after terraces in the city.
Woolf did not specify that drinking well was also important , but in this hotel they have gone ahead. The Coral Room , the central bar, may be one of the loveliest in London with its coral walls, marble bar and stylish, laid-back atmosphere (this is Bloomsbury, not Belgravia) .
In the Bloomsbury Club Bar They serve cocktails that honor the most illustrious residents of the neighborhood. They propose unconventional combinations, as the lives of this group of artists were unconventional. how about a Dora Carrington cocktail before taking the elevator and going back to that room of your own?
The Coral Room, one of the most beautiful bars in London
Dorothy Parker wrote of the Bloomsbury group that She "lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles" . We don't need to translate it. This gang liked to live well and understood that there is no creation without well-being. In this room, on the soft carpet, this idea is better understood.
Virginia Woolf she also wrote in the same book: “And I thought also of the admirable smoke and the drink and the deep armchairs and the pleasant carpets; in civility, dignity, reliability that are the fruits of luxury, seclusion, and spaciousness.”
Today perhaps she would be branded as incorrect (on Twitter, of course) for this defense of luxury and its relationship with creation. A deeper reading reveals an idea full of meaning.
“Having a room of one’s own (a quiet room or a noise-proof room, let’s not even talk about it) was completely impossible, unless the parents were exceptionally rich or extremely noble, until the beginning of the 19th century”.
Times have changed, luckily, and today having your own room is not entirely impossible. Having him in Bloomsbury, yes, it is a privilege. “A Room of Own´s Own” , is, like all and although it does not pretend, a travel book. In this case, from an inner journey
One of the delicious cocktails at The Coral Room