News about Virginia Woolf, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...

The British writer's great niece, Virginia Nicholson, 69, furiously disregarded the toy company, Mattel's suggestion of creating a Barbie doll of her aunt.

The Bloomsbury group were radical figures in the early 20th Century. A new exhibition shows how that extended to their wardrobes too, writes Holly Williams.

It was this George Eliot whom Virginia Woolf had in mind when she wrote, in 1919, that the long-faced, oracular Victorian had become, for Woolf’s generation, “one of the butts for youth to ...

In September 1920, Virginia Woolf was expecting a visit from T.S. Eliot. “We are hoping to see you on Saturday,” she wrote in a letter to the poet. After reviewing which trains to catch, she ...

Review of Shakespeare in Bloomsbury, by Marjory Garber — a look at the Bard’s influence on Woolf and her circle.

Virginia Woolf's great-great niece has hit back at critics of a recently unveiled riverside statue of the author, whose location has been described as 'insensitive'. The celebrated English author ...

Virginia Woolf's great-niece has blasted a 'wokerati' council for adding a QR code on her renowned relative's statue to explain the acclaimed author's 'offensive opinions'.

Alongside the likes of James Joyce and TS Eliot, Virginia Woolf is a trailblazer in the use of the narrative device, stream of consciousness, most famously depicted in Mrs Dalloway.