In a career that began in the 1950s, her roles ranged from Desdemona to Miss Jean Brodie, Virginia Woolf and Minerva McGonagall• Mark Lawson: Maggie Smith was a magisterial star with the courage and talent to do absolutely everythingMaggie Smith, the prolific, multi-award-winning actor whose... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2024-09-27 13:17:05 UTC ]
Perspectives on Walking: A Lit List, by James Fawcett & Madeline Meyers Lit Lists [email protected] Wed, 08/21/2024 - 08:53 In the summer of 2022 I (James Fawcett) walked from Denver to Durango on the Colorado Trail. I started the walk alone... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-08-21 13:53:38 UTC ]
Perspectives on Walking: A Lit List, by James Fawcett & Madeline Myers Lit Lists [email protected] Wed, 08/21/2024 - 08:53 In the summer of 2022 I (James Fawcett) walked from Denver to Durango on the Colorado Trail. I started the walk alone and... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2024-08-21 13:53:38 UTC ]
Virginia Woolf’s first novel, The Voyage Out, was published in the UK in 1915, after which she wanted to tweak some passages for the printing of the US edition. We know this thanks to the work of unsung hero Simon Cooper, a metadata officer at the University of Sydney, who found Woolf’s own copy... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2023-07-24 17:39:46 UTC ]
The writer on the long gestation of Locks – his debut novel set in 90s Merseyside – his work in prisons and what Virginia Woolf has taught him Continue reading... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-06-17 17:00:19 UTC ]
If the literary landscape of the early twentieth century, at least when it comes to short stories, is dominated by Anglophone writers like Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf, then the mid-twentieth century arguably belongs to the Latin American writers who helped to move the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2023-03-05 18:00:38 UTC ]
The short stories of the American writer Kate Chopin (1850-1904) are important precursors to twentieth-century modernism, and can be viewed as forerunners to the short fiction of Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, and other high modernists. Where other nineteenth-century writers tended to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-12-28 15:00:24 UTC ]
The list of novels that began their lives as short stories is long and well known. Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Virgin Suicides, Eudory Welty’s The Optimist’s Daughter, Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake (which began as a short story titled “Gogol”), Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (expanded from her 1923... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-12-15 09:52:44 UTC ]
Merve Emre’s “The Annotated Mrs. Dalloway” highlights the many reasons Woolf’s book is a masterpiece. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-09-15 13:00:00 UTC ]
The Booker-winning novelist is relaunching a series of neglected novels by black British writers. She explains why they deserve a new readership In today’s culture, it’s as though black British literary history began relatively recently, and new books are published without reference to or... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-01-30 11:00:07 UTC ]
Laurence King Publishing is branching out with the first standalone volume of Virginia Woolf’s essay How Should One Read a Book? featuring a new introduction and afterword by author Sheila Heti. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 10:27:44 UTC ]
This week, Claire Jarvis reviews a biography of Virginia Woolf by Gillian Gill. In 1990, John Mortimer wrote for the Book Review about “Agatha Christie: The Woman and Her Mysteries,” Gill’s biography of Christie. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-10 10:00:03 UTC ]
Sixty-seven percent of professional writers earned £10,000 or less in 2018, a Royal Society of Literature poll of more than 2,000 authors has found, with a room of one’s own still viewed as the most important requirement for a writing career 90 years on from Virginia Woolf’s seminal essay. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-18 18:49:13 UTC ]
Virginia Woolf’s handwritten notebooks in which she penned Mrs Dalloway are being published as a facsimile manuscript for the first time by Parisian press SP Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-02 14:48:28 UTC ]
The great-niece of Virginia Woolf is to publish her debut novel in July with Three Hares Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-03-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
These days, it is minimally staffed and funded firms who invest in new authors. The giants avoid such risk, only picking the writers once their names are madePaul McVeigh and Kirsty Logan are authors you may have heard of. Both of their debuts were published by Salt, an independent publisher.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Believe it or not, James Joyce wrote literature for children—as did Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes, and many other authors known mostly for their more adult-friendly classics. For this edition of our weekly quiz, we challenge you to identify the authors of 10 children’s book excerpts. They... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2016-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pushkin Press is partnering with literary institution The London Library to produce a series of "beautifully designed" books containing material from authors such as Lewis Carroll, E M Forster and Virginia Woolf. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
A £25,000 donation from Virginia Woolf's great niece has put the wheels in motion for a Bloomsbury Group £8.5m "centenary project". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2016-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
A ballet based on the life and works of Virginia Woolf will premiere next year, forming a central... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-03-31 00:00:00 UTC ]