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Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...
Virginia Woolf: A Modern Mind is a sweeping exploration of Woolf’s life and legacy through unpublished letters, early drafts, and other archival materials from the library’s Henry W. and ...
Heather Christle’s “In the Rhododendrons: A Memoir with Appearances by Virginia Woolf” is an unusual blend of personal and ...
British writer Virginia Woolf said: "There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not a grand ...
At 100, Virginia Woolf’s classic remains startlingly original—both in its style and depiction of female sexuality ...
A researcher — who was looking for something else — stumbled onto two poems by Virginia Woolf. The silly, punny, quickly drafted poems were written for her niece and nephew sometime after ...
A rare personal copy of Woolf’s first novel with the author's handwritten revisions offers tantalising glimpses into the mind and process of one of the 20th century’s most significant writers ...
I n his 1998 novel The Hours, writer Michael Cunningham imagines Virginia Woolf sitting down to do battle with the draft of a book that will eventually become Mrs Dalloway.
Nearly a century ago, Virginia Woolf began pushing the boundaries of literature and eviscerating the patriarchy. Her words still resonate today. A landmark new exhibit at New York Public Library ...
Fashion Why Virginia Woolf Is Fashion’s Fall Muse Woolf and her cohorts at the Bloomsbury Group embraced fierce individuality and no-nonsense outerwear. Now labels like Anna Sui and Uniqlo are ...
Two previously unknown poems by Virginia Woolf have been found in a library at the University of Texas at Austin. They are said to have been written for her niece and nephew sometime after March 1927.
A Sydney librarian recently discovered a misfiled lost gem in the stacks: Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her first novel, with handwritten notes for revision. An expert explores what they tell us.