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.

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 ...

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In or about December 1910, human character changed,” announced Virginia Woolf in an essay published in 1924, a declaration so ...

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 ...

“Here is a fine rubbish heap left by our parents to be swept,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary in 1929. She was speaking of what was known as “the servant problem” — the way her generation (Woolf ...

In the introduction to “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway,” Merve Emre describes Virginia Woolf as the hostess of her 1925 modernist classic: flitting from room to room, introducing us to each of her ...

Lisa Jones is the author of a memoir called “Broken: A Love Story” and she is currently at work on a novel. Peter Heller is the author of five books. His novel "The Dog Stars" was a bestseller. His ...

The Bloomsbury set, the joke goes, lived in squares and loved in triangles. In her gossipy, entertaining historical novel about the British bohemians, Priya Parma conjures a devastating fictional ...

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 ...

Thursday’s Google Doodle celebrates British literary luminary Virginia Woolf, with a portrait to mark what would have been her 136th birthday. The author of Mrs Dalloway, To The Lighthouse and A Room ...