A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years ...
The author’s early fiction, written in tribute to her friend Mary Violet Dickinson, shows her in a startling new light.
A newly discovered set of Virginia Woolf’s early fairy tales, “The Life of Violet,” reveals the modernist icon as a playful ...
As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of ...
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 ...
Standing in his wife’s angular shadow in blurry Bloomsbury photographs, Leonard Woolf has long been an enigmatic figure. A writer, journalist, editor, antiwar crusader and foreign-service veteran, ...
“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 ...
For a new series of reissued Virginia Woolf books, Vintage Classics tapped illustrator Aino-Maija Metsola to design evocative covers. You would be forgiven for not naturally associating the work of ...
When Professor of English Language and Literature Michael Thurston wanted students in his course on the English literary tradition to understand the context in which Virginia Woolf wrote To The ...
Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “What. A. Dump.” Those are the first words Elizabeth Taylor says in the ...
Virginia Woolf’s private bedroom at Monk’s House. Photo: Hillary Kelly No door connects Virginia Woolf’s bedroom to the rest of Monk’s House, the Sussex country retreat not far from the river in which ...