Michael Cunningham is possessed by a spirit, one whom a good deal of contemporary writers find it hard to shake: Virginia Woolf walks the hallways of his novels. Her motifs pop their heads in, his ...

BEGINNING AGAIN by Leonard Woolf. 263 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World. $4.95. On a Swedish holiday in 1911, Leonard Woolf was confronted on a remote beach by a naked Swede, who asked, “Can you divorce ...

Virginia Woolf in 1902. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. I’m not sure what I was expecting when I cracked open Virginia Woolf’s The Life of Violet: Three Early Stories, but it certainly wasn’t a giantess ...

Sewing Fisherman’s Wife by Anna Ancher (1890). Randers Museum of Art The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching ...

Virginia Woolf, a pivotal modernist writer, revolutionized storytelling with her exploration of inner consciousness and ...

Careful deals negotiated by Virginia Woolf's husband with Penguin Books helped her work reach a mass market, a new study shows. Penguin editions of Woolf's essays, and then novels, helped to publicise ...