Virginia Woolf

...by Harper Lee. Other family-themed classics that remain bright in readers' minds include "To the Lighthouse" (1927) by Virginia Woolf: "At this time of year, when families are gathering for Thanksgiving dinners, you can't find a better...

In this article: Little Women, E mail, A Christmas Memory, Tales of the City, and The Brothers K

...yet I love you just as dearly as if I were e'er so fine, so you won't care will you?" It recalls the love letters between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, again wild with abandon. The absence of a male correspondent seems to send...

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...writer that tells us more about them: and these do, though what they tell does not always improve our opinion of the author. Virginia Woolf's letters give an all too clear picture of her, and we must feel sympathy for the often attenuated...

In this article: TS Eliot, Leonard Woolf, Charles Dickens, Suicide, Hogarth Press, and Ezra Pound

...star in the Zoe Caldwell-directed Vita and Virginia, which opens tonight at the Union Square Theatre. The story follows that of Virginia Woolf, whom Atkins has played before in A Room of One's Own. This show, which The Times calls a...

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...are mortal; Jane Austen's are immortal," writes Harold Bloom in his foreword to this delightful volume. In it, 33 writers-from Virginia Woolf to Jay McInerney, from Somerset Maugham to Fay Weldon, from Martin Amis to A.S. Byatt-explain the whys...

In this article: Jane Austen, Random House, Amazon.com, A.S. Byatt, Fay Weldon, Martin Amis, and Somerset Maugham

...in modern culture has quite the evocative power of Bloomsbury. The name belongs to the still-tony London neighborhood to which Virginia Woolf and her sister Vanessa Stephen (later Bell) set themselves up for a life of social and creative...

In this article: Mills College, Art museum, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, and Duncan Grant

...Why We Read Jane Austen (Random House, $25), edited by Susannah Carson, explains her eternal appeal. • Lamenting Austen's death at 41, Virginia Woolf reflects on how Austen's work might have evolved had she lived longer, perhaps becoming "the...

In this article: Pride and Prejudice, Amy Heckerling, Emma, Random House, USA Today, Mr. Darcy, and Henry James

...even romance out of two unlikely sources - a passionate love for cultivating and the final days of author Virginia Woolf. Readers familiar with the author's series of Jane Austen mysteries know she is a writer unafraid to weave her own...

In this article: Vita Sackville-West, Suicide, World War II, and A Room of One's Own

...soldier, in his letters, follows the orders of both.'' From Ayn Rand's threat to disown a niece over a measly $25 debt to Virginia Woolf's anguished farewell to her husband, everything is all here, the ridiculous and the sublime. Mallon has...

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...mansion, complete with old masters bought on various grand tours. Vita Sackville-West - author and inspiration for Virginia Woolf's Orlando - loved Knole, writing that it "has a deep inward gaiety of some very old woman, who has had...

In this article: Vita Sackville-West, Knole, Henry VIII, Orlando, Horace Walpole, Sevenoaks, and England