The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic. Dissatisfi...
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment. She was, as she herself put it, always a hare a long...
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1915 by Duckworth; published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. In The Voyage Out, one of Woolf's wittiest, socially satirical novels, Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's...
Byline: NIALL AITCHESON WILL the real Simon Taylor please stand up. That ' s what countless Scotland supporters will be hoping for when the team's star player goes into battle against France in Sunday's RBS Six Nations opener. The outcome of...
WILL the real Simon Taylor please stand up. That ' s what countless Scotland supporters will be hoping for when the team's star player goes into battle against France in Sunday's RBS Six Nations opener. The outcome of the Murrayfield contest will...
According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious snob,...
According to Hermione Lee, author of a “definitive” biography published nearly a decade ago, “Virginia Woolf’s story is reformulated by each generation. She takes on the shape of difficult modernist … or comedian of manners, or neurotic highbrow aesthete, or inventive fantasist, or pernicious...
