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 ...

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

Our critic A.O. Scott takes apart a scene from “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s 1925 masterpiece, and shows why the book is a must-read now. By A.O. Scott In June, the Book Review Book Club will read ...

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 ...

A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of ...

I went to Shakespeare’s Globe to see “The Winter’s Tale” in London last March, on a freezing, rainy night. The mood was brightened by the production’s droll Autolycus, one of the Bard’s great con men ...

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 ...

Today, Cornwall's landscape continues to act as a catalyst for writers, many of which Luke Thompson has taught at Falmouth ...

Virginia Woolf, a pioneering modernist writer, revolutionized literature with her unique stream-of-consciousness style and feminist perspectives. Despite personal tragedies and mental health struggles ...

Nearly a century ago, British author Virginia Woolf is said to have refused to sit for a likeness for the National Portrait Gallery in London because of the absence of paintings of women on the walls.

WHEN I was appointed to this lectureship the work of Virginia Woolf was much in my mind, and I asked to be allowed to speak on it. To speak on it, rather than to sum it up. There are two obstacles to ...