In Miranda Darling’s feminist fiction, Mrs Dalloway is a Sydney wife and mother who refuses to be tamed, despite her husband’s attempts at coercive control.
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Articles on Virginia Woolf
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When Jane Gleeson-White’s marriage ended two years after her mother died, she lost her voice. Books by women writers like Rachel Cusk, Olivia Laing and Maggie Nelson helped her find it again.
The Bloomsbury group’s distaste for formality helped to set the foundations for how we dress today.
A Sydney librarian recently discovered a misfiled lost gem in the stacks: Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her first novel, with handwritten notes for revision. An expert explores what they tell us.
‘Literary couples are a plague,’ wrote Elsa Morante, married to Alberto Moravia. They’re one of the couples in this lively exploration of what happens when two writers share loves and lives.
Woolf’s writing illuminates the special place that sewing held in British households from the late 19th century.
Edwina Preston reflects on the lost art of hanging out – which feeds creativity – and the need to reclaim time from the pressures of productivity. She draws on new books by Jenny Odell and Sheila Liming.
Edwina Preston pays tribute to the humble letter: from literary love letters to philosophical lessons to cherished family heirlooms. Letters impart lessons, reveal character – and are a form of art.
Sophie Cunningham’s novel about Leonard Woolf and the contemporary writer attempting to tell his story is wry and earnest – and yes, devastating when it needs to be.
Selby Wynn Schwartz’s inventive, poetic reimagining of lives like those of Virginia Woolf and Sarah Bernhardt – against a backdrop of Sappho – has just been longlisted for the Booker Prize.
In her first novel, Michelle Cahill gives a marginalised character from Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway the opportunity to speak for herself.
The pandemic changed the way we shop – with many ‘new’ initiatives actually reinventing old ways of doing things.
Woolf thought of her books as music before she wrote them so it is unsurprising that her writing influenced the work of composers.
Woolf’s writing about illness defied the establishment’s post-war story of national strength.
The experience of going to the cinema is unique, wrote Woolf.
Written in 1929, this short, passionate book highlighting the silencing of women’s voices continues to shape our culture.
Henry James called her a ‘great, horse-faced bluestocking’. On the 200th anniversary of her birth, we celebrate George Eliot, a literary trailblazer with an endless appetite for ideas, living in a patriarchal time.
Virginia Woolf’s satire of readers who use easily accessible art to acquire class and culture might just reveal why certain films win awards like Oscars.
Writers like Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and J.M. Barrie suffered personal loss during the First World War. Their grief and insight helped readers with their own post-war collective grief.
For those who are finding the social distancing isolating, here are some lessons from ancient hermits, who often found joy in being alone.
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Professor of English Literature, University of Southern Queensland
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PhD Candidate, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor in English Literature, Durham University
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Professor of Early Christianity, Cornell University
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King's College London
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PhD Candidate, University of Bristol
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British Academy Global Professor, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of English and Creative Writing, Thompson Rivers University
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Lecturer in English, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and English Literature, York St John University
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Lecturer at School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University
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Reader in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of English, University of St Andrews
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Professor of Comparative Literature, UCL
