Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Who Are Virginia Woolf's Female Contemporaries?
- Virginia Woolf's Cultural Contexts
- Virginia Woolf's Contemporaries Abroad
- Reconfiguring the Mermaid: HD, Virginia Woolf, and the Radical Ethics of Writing as Marine Practice
- A Carnival of the Grotesque: Feminine Imperial Flânerie in Virginia Woolf 's “Street Haunting” and Una Marson's “Little Brown Girl”
- Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman
- Shop My Closet: Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, and Fashion Contemporaries
- Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo: A Brazilian Perspective
- Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf
- Critical Characters in Search of an Author: Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
- “In my mind I saw my mother”: Virginia Woolf, Zitkala-Ša, and Autobiography
- Virginia Woolf's Contemporaries at Home
- Tribute to Jane Marcus
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program 223
Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo: A Brazilian Perspective
from Virginia Woolf's Contemporaries Abroad
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Who Are Virginia Woolf's Female Contemporaries?
- Virginia Woolf's Cultural Contexts
- Virginia Woolf's Contemporaries Abroad
- Reconfiguring the Mermaid: HD, Virginia Woolf, and the Radical Ethics of Writing as Marine Practice
- A Carnival of the Grotesque: Feminine Imperial Flânerie in Virginia Woolf 's “Street Haunting” and Una Marson's “Little Brown Girl”
- Mad Women: Dance, Female Sexuality, and Surveillance in the Work of Virginia Woolf and Emily Holmes Coleman
- Shop My Closet: Virginia Woolf, Marianne Moore, and Fashion Contemporaries
- Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo: A Brazilian Perspective
- Making Waves in Lonely Parallel: Evelyn Scott and Virginia Woolf
- Critical Characters in Search of an Author: Cornelia Sorabji and Virginia Woolf
- “In my mind I saw my mother”: Virginia Woolf, Zitkala-Ša, and Autobiography
- Virginia Woolf's Contemporaries at Home
- Tribute to Jane Marcus
- Notes on Contributors
- Conference Program 223
Summary
This paper aims to investigate how Woolf influenced Victoria Ocampo's literary production as it appears in Ocampo's Testimonies. It also aims to analyze how Ocampo disseminated Virginia Woolf 's writings in the Spanish-speaking world through translations, public lectures, publications, and especially through her passion for talking about Woolf. This relationship was of mutual benefit in a remarkable manner to both of them as women writers and intellectuals of their time. Woolf dramatically impacted Ocampo's progress as a writer. Ocampo contributed immensely in spreading Woolf 's writings in the Spanish-speaking world. However, Ocampo was severely criticized because of her European relations. Juan Peron, the president of Argentina at the time, thought she was spreading an imperialist vision; others, on the contrary, thought that she was a nationalist because her work was of great assistance to building an Argentinean culture.
My paper is organized into four sections. First, I will write about the 1934 encounter between Virginia Woolf and Victoria Ocampo, introducing the latter and giving details about their impressions of each other. Second, I will talk about the translation Ocampo made of A Room of One's Own (1929) and Woolf 's impressions of it. Third, I will emphasize the importance of the photographs of Woolf taken by Giséle Freund and the circumstances around them. Finally, I will concentrate on Victoria Ocampo's writings on Woolf; I will begin with “Letter to Virginia Woolf,” written in 1934 (about the time Ocampo met Woolf); then, I will move to Virginia Woolf in her Diary, and lastly, I would like to discuss Ocampo's speech at the Academy, in which she mentions Virginia Woolf and how important she was in motivating Ocampo to write.
WOOLF AND OCAMPO: FIRST ENCOUNTER
Victoria Ocampo (1890–1979) came from a wealthy, aristocratic Argentinean family whose position offered her some privileges but also dictated how she should behave in a patriarchal society. From the very beginning she had to fight against all odds in order to survive in an intellectual and literary patriarchal environment and to pursue her artistic goals. She was the founder and publisher of one of the most influential literary journals of her time, Sur, around which an international literary elite gathered, including Argentinean writers such as Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges.
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- Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries , pp. 122 - 128Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2016