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...Its protagonists, Baker writes, weren’t Hitler or Churchill, but countrywomen, like the woman from the grocer’s shop in Townsend Warner’s village who became unnervingly good at throwing grenades....
...I needn’t have worried....
...Virginia Woolf’s ashes were buried beneath an elm tree at Monk’s House in Sussex, marked by the epitaph: “Death is the enemy.”...
...What Woolf wants us to reach is “the greater intensity and truth of fiction”....
...Woolf nailed wealth way back in 1925: few things offer a more useful shorthand for extreme privilege than floristry displays. I can’t resist a yarn about the super-rich....
...In more modern times, Virginia Woolf was plagued by insomnia....
...Each act is accorded a specific timeframe: morning, noon and evening, recalling Cunningham’s most obvious role model, Virginia Woolf (just as The Hours used Woolf’s original title for Mrs Dalloway)....
...That doesn’t mean there weren’t voracious women collectors, of course....
...It may well be the case that, as a character in What Are You Going Through says, “if every poet in the world sat down today and wrote a poem about climate change, it wouldn’t save one tree.”...
...It’s hard to imagine he won’t. Find out about our latest stories first — follow @financialtimesfashion on Instagram...
...Modern (Sebastian Barry or Olga Tokarczuk), classic (Virginia Woolf or James Baldwin) or genre (Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, Georges Simenon) — it doesn’t matter....
...DON’T EVEN TRY IT, COLUMBO....
...She recycles and reuses, papering the walls and floors of the Serpentine’s gorgeous education space with quotes from George Orwell and Virginia Woolf that she has used many times before, the first a warning...
...While there was less razzmatazz, it wasn’t drab. In fact, quite the opposite....
...It’s been 25 years since Michael Cunningham’s The Hours ingeniously juxtaposed a fictional version of Virginia Woolf with two other troubled women — one in 1940s Los Angeles, the other in contemporary New...
...“You can’t really do much that’s creative unless you feel tied to it personally somehow,” they say....
...It’s something that we can all do, you don’t have to be a millionaire, we can all read the same book. We can all be part of a reading club.”...
...When Nicole Kidman played Virginia Woolf in The Hours, she wore a fake nose that had the effect of making Kidman less conventionally beautiful, which prompted a backlash from Woolf scholars for reinforcing...
...In places, it is a playful book, too, countering its sometimes sombre tone with guidance on how to read it: don’t “judge too quickly”, we’re told. “Some books, like some people, are shy.”...
...It wasn’t until after Miller’s death in 1977 that Penrose discovered a cache of 60,000 negatives and dispatches in the attic of the house. “I couldn’t believe she had done all this,” he says....
...Virginia Woolf had mixed feelings about Stephen “Tommy” Tomlin....
...“She writes serious books,” her first editor, Dan Franklin, has said — the implication being that many other authors don’t....
...Yet I soon realised I didn’t want to follow the pattern and make someone else’s design, because, as Woolf wrote in her diary in 1921: “I like clothes, if I can design them.”...
...Simon Chilvers Anna Sui, her show last month in New York for Autumn/Winter 2024, was inspired by Miss Marple and Virginia Woolf and was staged at this incredible book room in New York at The Strand Book...
...His interest is anthropological and reportorial — more Charles Dickens than Virginia Woolf....
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