A planned Virginia Woolf monument overlooking the Thames River is under fire as the celebrated author committed suicide by drowning.
“Remembering is a life experience; the problem comes when in solitude we use that space to bring others to our present, to our center, nostalgically”
W. H. Auden on how the author of “Mrs. Dalloway” left behind, in her diary, the most truthful record of what a writer’s life is actually like.
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Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) [c.1912] Vanessa Bell (1879–1961) National Trust, Monk's House
Virginia Woolf understood as well as anyone the long-term effects that viruses could wreak on bodies, and on societies.
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“Remembering is a life experience; the problem comes when in solitude we use that space to bring others to our present, to our center, nostalgically”
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself." Virginia Woolf #InternationalWomensDay
Tall, dark and attractive, Vita Sackville-West (left) had the knack of inflaming passions wherever she went. Marriages crumbled in her wake. Grown men and women threatened suicide.
George Bernard Shaw (Read about his room here.) “Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.” …
We take advice from the modernist author on personal style, battling the sales, and the key to surviving the chaos of Oxford Street
It was in the popular Modernism of the interwar years, when so many men had died and women consequently found themselves...
An exploratory essay is a short work of nonfiction in which a writer examines an idea without necessarily attempting to back up a claim or support a thesis.
A humbling reminder that self-righteousness is the greatest enemy of compassion and judging another human being’s private struggle is a disgrace to our own humanity.
The actress revisits Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" in her curatorial debut.
Move over, Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. Everyone knows about the fathers of science fiction, but what about the mothers?
Art lovers and Bloomsbury fans all flock to Sissinghurst Castle, once home to Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, but the restoration of their vast library has revealed another story, of the enduring love on which their unconventional marriage was built.
In Vanessa and Her Sister, Priya Parmar imagines what Vanessa Bell wrote in her journal when she and Woolf were helping to form the Bloomsbury Group, a gathering of London artists and intellectuals.
