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 »
Category: Books
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 »
The Other Shakespeare by Lea Rachel: Book Review
(Disclaimer: This article contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) The Other Shakespeare is a novel inspired by Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s… Read more »
The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club by S.P. Rosenbaum: Book Review
(Disclaimer: This article contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) The Bloomsbury Group Memoir Club by S.P. Rosenbaum explores a little known aspect of… Read more »
Virginia Woolf’s Garden by Caroline Zoob: Book Review
(Disclaimer: This article contains Amazon affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Virginia Woolf’s Garden is a fascinating look not only at the sprawling garden at… Read more »
How Virginia Woolf Inspired the Bechdel Test
Some people might be surprised to know that the Bechdel Test was indirectly inspired by Virginia Woolf’s non-fiction book A Room of One’s Own, which was published in 1929. The… Read more »
Mrs. Ramsay’s Ephemeral Art in To The Lighthouse
The following is a guest post by Kitti Tóth: Artworks that exist outside the gallery and museum structure and have no longevity in the usual sense of historical pieces can… Read more »