As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of ...

The English author Virginia Woolf is one of the 20th century’s literary giants, renowned for the pioneering stream-of-consciousness style she immortalized in novels like To the Lighthouse and Mrs.

In Woolf’s final, unfinished manuscript, she employs a “methodology of disorder” that enables “that state of mind in which it ...

In 1918, Virginia Woolf saw something special in Cézanne’s “Still Life with Apples” (1877-1878). Despite its small scale and muted hues, the modest canvas unlocked something in Woolf, who responded ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Claire Jarvis VIRGINIA WOOLF And the Women Who Shaped Her World By Gillian Gill You would be hard ...

Michael Cunningham is possessed by a spirit, one whom a good deal of contemporary writers find it hard to shake: Virginia Woolf walks the hallways of his novels. Her motifs pop their heads in, his ...

BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.95. On a Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, “Can you divorce ...

Before Woolf settled on the unique perspective for her modernist masterpiece, she had a more expansive, though traditional, book in mind — “The Hours.” By Lauren Christensen “I am the only woman in ...

Undaunted by the many biographers who preceded her, Gillian Gill strides into Bloomsbury like Virginia Woolf on a long tramp around the English countryside. With the bold ambition of telling the famed ...

Today marks the 136 th anniversary of Virginia Woolf’s birth. Happy birthday to a literary icon; happy birthday, Virginia Woolf. A pioneer of stream-of-conciousness writing, Woolf left behind an ...