Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
Articles on Virginia Woolf
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Edwina Preston pays tribute to the humble letter: from literary love letters to philosophical lessons to cherished family heirlooms. Letters impart lessons, reveal character – and are a form of art.
Sophie Cunningham’s novel about Leonard Woolf and the contemporary writer attempting to tell his story is wry and earnest – and yes, devastating when it needs to be.
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s inventive, poetic reimagining of lives like those of Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt – against a backdrop of Sappho – has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
In her first novel, Michelle Cahill gives a marginalised character from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the opportunity to speak for herself.
The pandemic changed the way we shop – with many ‘new’ initiatives actually reinventing old ways of doing things.
Woolf thought of her books as music before she wrote them so it is unsurprising that her writing influenced the work of composers.
Woolf’s writing about illness defied the establishment’s post-war story of national strength.
The experience of going to the cinema is unique, wrote Woolf.
Written in 1929, this short, passionate book highlighting the silencing of women’s voices continues to shape our culture.
Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living in a patriarchal time.
Virginia Woolf’s satire of readers who use easily accessible art to acquire class and culture might just reveal why certain films win awards like Oscars.
Writers like Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie suffered personal loss during the First World War. Their grief and insight helped readers with their own post-war collective grief.
For those who are finding the social distancing isolating, here are some lessons from ancient hermits, who often found joy in being alone.
Leigh Hunt is a nineteenth-century writer who grappled with the question: How can we celebrate and enjoy ourselves at this time of the year when there is so much misery in the world?
The first fully industrialised war prompted many to draw parallels between human society and the insect world.
In what ways do our sexual pleasures and fantasies inform the way we see the world?
From Tolstoy to Mark Twain, the most famous writers owe many words of thanks to their long-suffering wives.
Virginia Woolf’s archive can be seen as a serious resource for research into the experience of hearing voices.
A new BBC drama follows the life and loves of Vanessa Bell, sister of Virginia Woolf and centre of the famous Bloomsbury group.
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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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PhD Candidate, Creative Writing, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in Politics and Journalism, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Associate Professor in 18th-century Literature, York St John University
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Adjunct Lecturer, English and Creative Writing, UNSW Canberra, UNSW
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King's College London
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Professor of English, University of St Andrews
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Professor of English and Creative Writing, Thompson Rivers University
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Lecturer at School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Professor of Comparative Literature, UCL
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University
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Professor in English Literature, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Sussex
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Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University