This site is being built during the summer of 1998 as an adjunct to my paper, "The Dial as Matrix: Periodical Connections betweeen Woolf and O'Keeffe" delivered at the 8th annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, held this year at the University of St. Louis. This paper is the third in a series of articles I am publishing comparing various aspects of the life and work of Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe. The two previous articles were published in the Conference Proceedings:
- Sparks, Elisa Kay. "'A Match Burning in a Crocus': Modernism, Feminism, and Feminine Experience in Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe." In Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Vara Neverow-Turk and Mark Hussey, eds. NYC: Pace UP, 1994. 296-302.
- ---. "'Virginia O'Keeffe has an exhibit of drawings at 291': Paradoxes of Feminist Pin-Ups." In Re : Reading, Re: Writing, Re: Teaching Virginia Woolf : Selected Papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf : Bard College, Aannandale. Patricia Cramer, ed. New York: Pace UP, 1995.
The site contains a selected Table of Contents for The Dial during the years between 1920-29 when it was edited by Scofield Thayer. I did not enter every single poem, review, or piece of artwork, but I did make a conscientous effort to list everything by well-known artists as well anything that was granted a significant amount of space (over five pages). I have tried to list every single mention of either Woolf or O'Keeffe, and kept careful track of everything published by and about their circles of friends. So lists of works by and about friends of Virginia's, friends of Georgia's, or linkers who knew or were known to both of them are as complete as I can make them.
Text in the Table of Contents is color-coded so that works by those in the Woolf and O'Keeffe circles can be easily located and so that the relative proportion of publication by each group can be easily assessed.
is for material by or about a member of the Woolf circle
is for material by or about Woolf
is for material by or about a member of the O'Keeffe circle
is for material by or about O'Keeffe
is for material by or about one of the linkers, primarily D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein
A Note on Graphics
The pervasive salmon color of the backgrounds is an attempt to match the color of the Dial cover. The titles and colophon were scanned off an actual title page. Almost all of the backgrounds have been derived from drawings or other artwork in the Dial. Eventually I hope to list the source for all backgrounds on the bottom of pages. Many are caricatures of the person that the page is about.
Some Relevant Links
Click here for information on the
Sixth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by Clemson University in June, 1996
Click here for information on the Ninth Virginia Woolf Conference, to be hosted by the University of Delaware.
Click here to go to E.K. Sparks' fairly extensive bibliography on Georgia O'Keeffe
Click here to visit Elisa Sparks' gallery of original prints connecting Woolf and O'Keeffe
Click here to go to a chronological table comparing the lives of Virginia Woolf, Georgi O'Keefe, and T.S. Eliot
Back to Dial Home Page
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times since June 9, 1998
Research, website and graphics design, and maintence by
Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
Last update: 9/7/98
- Sparks, Elisa Kay. "'A Match Burning in a Crocus': Modernism, Feminism, and Feminine Experience in Virginia Woolf and Georgia O'Keeffe." In Virginia Woolf: Themes and Variations: Selected Papers from the Third Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf. Vara Neverow-Turk and Mark Hussey, eds. NYC: Pace UP, 1994. 296-302.
- ---. "'Virginia O'Keeffe has an exhibit of drawings at 291': Paradoxes of Feminist Pin-Ups." In Re : Reading, Re: Writing, Re: Teaching Virginia Woolf : Selected Papers from the Fourth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf : Bard College, Aannandale. Patricia Cramer, ed. New York: Pace UP, 1995.
The site contains a selected Table of Contents for The Dial during the years between 1920-29 when it was edited by Scofield Thayer. I did not enter every single poem, review, or piece of artwork, but I did make a conscientous effort to list everything by well-known artists as well anything that was granted a significant amount of space (over five pages). I have tried to list every single mention of either Woolf or O'Keeffe, and kept careful track of everything published by and about their circles of friends. So lists of works by and about friends of Virginia's, friends of Georgia's, or linkers who knew or were known to both of them are as complete as I can make them.
Text in the Table of Contents is color-coded so that works by those in the Woolf and O'Keeffe circles can be easily located and so that the relative proportion of publication by each group can be easily assessed.
is for material by or about a member of the Woolf circle is for material by or about Woolf
is for material by or about a member of the O'Keeffe circle
is for material by or about O'Keeffe is for material by or about one of the linkers, primarily D.H. Lawrence and Gertrude Stein
The pervasive salmon color of the backgrounds is an attempt to match the color of the Dial cover. The titles and colophon were scanned off an actual title page. Almost all of the backgrounds have been derived from drawings or other artwork in the Dial. Eventually I hope to list the source for all backgrounds on the bottom of pages. Many are caricatures of the person that the page is about.
Some Relevant Links
Click here for information on the Sixth International Conference on Virginia Woolf, hosted by Clemson University in June, 1996
Click here for information on the Ninth Virginia Woolf Conference, to be hosted by the University of Delaware.
Click here to go to E.K. Sparks' fairly extensive bibliography on Georgia O'Keeffe
Click here to visit Elisa Sparks' gallery of original prints connecting Woolf and O'Keeffe
Click here to go to a chronological table comparing the lives of Virginia Woolf, Georgi O'Keefe, and T.S. Eliot
Back to Dial Home Page
This page has been accessed
Research, website and graphics design, and maintence by
Dr. Elisa Kay Sparks
Last update: 9/7/98