In the fall of 2020, the adventurous students in my HONR 101A first-year seminar, “Ruin and Re-begetting,” undertook research on the Bloomsbury Group. By producing the timelines featured on this website, they introduced one another efficiently to key 20th-century figures in a variety of disciplines––and to the significance of the Hogarth Press, co-founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf. After producing a brief, non-digitized chronology, each student transformed it into an interactive timeline by using Timeline JS. Nine of the timelines appear on this website. Students modeled their digital entries on those of the website produced in Spring 2020 by my Senior Seminar, ENG 451, “Subverters and Self-fashioners; Revisiting Shakespeare’s Sisters Nearly a Century After Woolf”.

I’m grateful, once again, to Michael Boyles, Director of the Tenzer Technology Center, who guided students through the process and created the website for our class.

Despite limited library resources during COVID-19, the digital project led to a rich array of research papers on a variety of subjects. In “Going Against the Grain,” Elise Monroe showed how the Bloomsbury members, “by being unapologetically themselves,” made their mark on society. Two students chose a specific text for their analysis: Lydia Williams in “Breaking Barriers Between the Lines: Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Undertones in Mrs. Dalloway” and Harry Burgan in arguing that John Maynard Keynes’s essay “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” (1930) is still relevant ninety years after its publication. Four papers focused on artists: Luke Blackley’s “Duncan Grant: An Artist from the Start,” “Olivia Lockette’s “The Fruitful Influence and Legacy of Vanessa Bell,” Maggie Perry’s “Abstract Temptation: Vanessa Bell’s Artistic Journey Amidst Temptations of Her Own,” and Emma Stemen’s “From Fragmentation to Focus, From Abstraction to Realism: How Roger Fry’s Life Influenced his Artwork.” Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf featured in four papers, each as distinctive as its title suggests: Elias Alexander’s “A Thing that Wants Virginia,” Jude Hunter’s “Virginia and Vita: A Partnership of Passion and Intelligence,” Sal Martoglio’s “’One Cannot Have Truth’: Redefining Vita Sackville-West,” and Abigail McArthur-Self’s “Orlando’s Influence: The Intersection of Privilege and Marginalization.”