Virginia Woolf
Rural Hours by Harriet Baker review – the country lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann
Three writers’ pastoral years are beautifully observed in this group biography but seem little more than tangential to their work
Rachel Cooke
01, Apr, 2024 @6:00 AM
In the footsteps of Virginia Woolf: walking the west Cornwall coast to the Badger pub
Starting in arty St Ives, this route takes in a hill the writer ‘staggered up’ in 1909, the lighthouse that inspired her novel, and finishes in a pub she loved
Phoebe Taplin
17, Sep, 2023 @6:00 AM
Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion by Charlie Porter review – style revolution
A fashion journalist links the sartorial choices of Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, TS Eliot et al to their avant garde outlook on life
Kathryn Hughes
06, Sep, 2023 @8:00 AM
Bohemian rhapsody: how the fashion world fell for Charleston, the Bloomsbury set’s country farmhouse
From Virginia Woolf and her circle to Kate Moss’s Vogue shoot, the unconventional Sussex farmhouse has captured imaginations across the decades
Jess Cartner-Morley
12, Aug, 2023 @10:00 AM
The last word on: Hope
Kicking off our new monthly series about emotions in literature, Sophie Ratcliffe finds the best literary descriptions of hopefulness
Sophie Ratcliffe
06, Jul, 2023 @11:00 AM
The Diary of Virginia Woolf review – a book for the ages
Woolf’s epic and unmatchable record of her life, times and writing process
Hermione Lee
22, Jun, 2023 @6:30 AM
Top 10 adventure stories
The genre is often presumed to be one ‘for boys’. Novelists including Virginia Woolf and Georgette Heyer prove that women are just as capable of bold escapes and derring-do as men
Kim Sherwood
21, Jun, 2023 @11:57 AM
I was overwhelmed by shame when I quit grad school. Now I’m a quitting guru | Julia Keller
I thought that dropping out made me a failure, but it was the making of me as a journalist and writer, says Dr Julia Keller, the author of Quitting: A Life Strategy
Julia Keller
05, Jun, 2023 @7:00 AM
A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants
The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce
Katy Guest
11, May, 2023 @11:00 AM
Top 10 visionary books about scientists: searching for an answer
From Virginia Woolf to Primo Levi, authors are drawn to capturing scientists’ obsessive quest for knowledge
Martin MacInnes
15, Mar, 2023 @2:18 PM
Orlando review – Tilda Swinton is magnetic in Sally Potter’s swoony reverie
Potter’s 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s book remains trance-inducingly strange, stuffed full of style and stars
Peter Bradshaw
09, Mar, 2023 @1:00 PM
Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece
The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf
Sarah Crompton
05, Mar, 2023 @9:00 AM
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