Traditional motherhood has always been recognised, while women’s other achievements and bequests must continually prove their worth.
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Writing prompts to generate images combines two literary tasks at once: the realist description of concrete things and the modernist evocation of atmosphere.
Critically slated for not being modernist enough, Night and Day is a reappraisal.
Many literary masterpieces are long and wordy, But reading them can bring surprising benefits, beyond sheer pleasure. Here’s how to tackle the classics.
Noise first became a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the ‘age of noise’ by dystopian author Aldous Huxley.
Woolf argues that illness is ‘the great confessional’ which is never talked about in literature.
The plural of anecdote is not data, as they say.
These three whimsical short stories tell the story of Woolf’s dear friend Violet Dickinson.
Sad Tiger and Trauma Plot are two stunning memoirs by rape survivors who immerse themselves in art and literature. They both transcend ‘art as therapy’.
A century on, Mrs Dalloway speaks in so many ways to our own moment of militarisation, neo-imperialism and political crisis.
Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.
Virginia Woolf found describing her childhood both an opportunity and a challenge.
Iconic authors Joan Didion and Eve Babitz were close in 60s and 70s LA. Journalist Lili Anolik read Eve’s posthumous letters to Joan, and argues each was the closest the other had to a secret twin.
Theory & Practice is a potent reminder that the purpose of art is not always distinct from the purpose of life: generating imperfect pathways towards empathy.
In Miranda Darling’s feminist fiction, Mrs Dalloway is a Sydney wife and mother who refuses to be tamed, despite her husband’s attempts at coercive control.
When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.
The Bloomsbury group’s distaste for formality helped to set the foundations for how we dress today.
A Sydney librarian recently discovered a misfiled lost gem in the stacks: Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her first novel, with handwritten notes for revision. An expert explores what they tell us.
‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
Woolf’s writing illuminates the special place that sewing held in British households from the late 19th century.
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, King's College London
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Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University
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King's College London
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