This exhibition of Virginia Woolf's manuscripts and Hogarth Press first editions was mounted in conjunction with the Thirteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, held June 5-8, 2003 at Smith ...

Her genius continues to inspire all manner of new artistic work, but far too much of it fixates on her suicide over the vivid life of her fiction Virginia Woolf may be famous for her death – she ...

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia…It is incredible how essential to me you have become,” wrote Vita Sackville-West to the novelist Virginia Woolf in 1926. A popular writer herself, ...

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 ...

Virginia Woolf in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I cracked open Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, but it certainly wasn’t a giantess ...

One of the 20th century's foremost authors, Woolf was a pioneer in the use of stream-of-conscious narrative approach. Steven Musil is a senior news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since ...

“I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her a beautiful little knitter.” So wrote Edith Sitwell of an afternoon she spent with Virginia Woolf. Not much of Woolf’s ...

In 1922, Virginia Woolf met Vita Sackville-West—an aristocratic author and socialite who grew up in a manor home (containing 52 staircases!) that was given to her family by Queen Elizabeth I. Though ...

Copy of The Voyage Out with writer’s handwritten annotations was discovered in University of Sydney library in 2021 and has now been digitised One of just two copies of Virginia Woolf’s first novel, ...

The writer Virginia Woolf was obsessed by her mother, who died unexpectedly when Virginia was just 13. This loss, combined with the subsequent deaths of her half-sister, her father and her brother, ...

How do great authors begin? In 1907, aged 25, Virginia Woolf embarked on her first novel: an epic journey that would ultimately span more than a decade and several mental breakdowns and influential ...