As an editor and book critic, Malcolm Cowley backed innovative 20th-century writers. His greatest achievement may have been ...

As novelist Prose notes in her perceptive introduction, Woolf demonstrates a huge affection for her hometown—like her heroine Clarissa Dalloway, whose stream-of ...

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 ...

Unearthed after a century, Virginia Woolf's "The Life of Violet" reveals three witty, tender portraits of friendship and ...

“Here is a fine rubbish heap left by our parents to be swept,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary in 1929. She was speaking of what was known as “the servant problem” — the way her generation (Woolf ...

Standing in his wife’s angular shadow in blurry Bloomsbury photographs, Leonard Woolf has long been an enigmatic figure. A writer, journalist, editor, antiwar crusader and foreign-service veteran, ...

Virginia Woolf’s private bedroom at Monk’s House. Photo: Hillary Kelly No door connects Virginia Woolf’s bedroom to the rest of Monk’s House, the Sussex country retreat not far from the river in which ...

When Professor of English Language and Literature Michael Thurston wanted students in his course on the English literary tradition to understand the context in which Virginia Woolf wrote To The ...

A remarkable literary discovery has thrilled readers of the late, great British writer Virginia Woolf. More than 80 years after her death, a new book has been published this week. It's a collection of ...

“Virginia Woolf and the Women Who Shaped Her World,” by Gillian Gill. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 432 pages. $30. Undaunted by the many biographers who preceded her, Gillian Gill strides ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. “What. A. Dump.” Those are the first words Elizabeth Taylor says in the ...