Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in ‘The Hours’ (Paramount Pictures) The sweet, sad irony, of course, is that any reader of Mrs Dalloway knows that she needn’t fret: the answer to ...

Set on a hot day in London in the middle of June in 1923, Mrs Dalloway might at first appear to be about very little – a middle-aged woman and survivor of the 1918 influenza pandemic, Clarissa ...

Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage industry that would put all her writing – letters and diaries as well as ...

This year marks the centennial of the first publication of Virginia Woolf’s great novel, “Mrs. Dalloway.” It’s truly a cause for widespread celebration, an occasion on which to honor the fact that ...

I have been told quite a few times that my creative writing style is somewhat reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. Although I have only read her first published story, “The Mark on the Wall,” during ...

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at ...

In the first days of the stay-in-place orders made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, anxious variations on one of the most famous openings in English literature began cropping up on Twitter.

In his 1998 novel The Hours, writer Michael Cunningham imagines Virginia Woolf sitting down to do battle with the draft of a book that will eventually become Mrs Dalloway. “Can a single day in the ...