Virginia Woolf Quotes
It is pretty fair to say that Virginia Woolf had a way with words like no other. Here’s a compilation of some Virginia Woolf quotes from her many books, letters,… Read more »
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Writing and Painting: The Fruitful Influence of Vanessa Bell
The following is a guest post by Pauline Schnoebelen: There is no doubt that Virginia Woolf’s artistic motivations and expectations as a writer have to be examined in relation to… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Art and the Silent World of Things
The following is a guest post by Pauline Schnoebelen: One of Virginia Woolf’s main concerns was to reconsider the conventional thinking of what is worth being represented as art. Although… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Modernist Response: Grasping the Essential Thing
The following is a guest post by Pauline Schnoebelen: As Art Historian and Virginia Woolf’s nephew, Quentin Bell, once highlighted, “by 1900 it seemed that the time [had] come for… Read more »
Spiritual Reality & Virginia Woolf: Experiencing Epiphanic Moments
The following is a guest post by Kitti Tóth: The word epiphany derives from epi- [on, above, to] and phainein [to show] from the Greek epiphaneia, which means approximately “to… Read more »
Virginia Woolf and the Hogarth Press
Hogarth Press was a printing press founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf in 1917. The Woolfs originally started the press, which they named after their home Hogarth House in the… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Flirtation with Clive Bell
Virginia Woolf began openly flirting with her brother-in-law Clive Bell, shortly after the birth of his first child, Julian, in 1908, causing a deep rift in Virginia’s relationship with her… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Fascination with the Titanic
After the Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, Virginia Woolf developed a fascination with the disaster and even toyed with the idea of writing about it. According to How to… Read more »
Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey
Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey were writers, lifelong friends and members of the Bloomsbury Group. The two met sometime around 1904 when Virginia and her siblings moved into a new… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Experiences in World War II
Virginia Woolf was not only a prolific writer but she was a also a witness to many historic events in the early 20th century, including World War II and the… Read more »