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This page is an aid to research for students of Virginia Woolf’s work. As for those who are curious but don’t know where to start, I’m afraid looking here is likely to make things worse. A copy of Mrs Dalloway and a quiet corner are probably the best solution.

The upper part of the page is given over to web resources — articles about and, in one case, by Virginia Woolf, biographies, bibliographies, seminar material, message boards and so on. At the bottom of the page are facilities to search the British, US and Canadian Amazon catalogues, and to scour the global network of ABE Books for rare and oop editions.

It is with real pleasure that we can report the arrival of a new volume addressing itself to Leonard Woolf’s political writings.

As you may know, Woolf began his career after Cambridge as a colonial administrator in Ceylon. His experiences there informed the passionate interest in international affairs that remained with him for the rest of his long life. In The International Theory of Leonard Woolf, Peter Wilson looks afresh at Woolf’s ideas in the context of a new century.

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The International Theory of Leonard Woolf: A Study in Twentieth Century Idealism
Peter Wilson
The International Theory of Leonard Woolf
Bloomsbury Portraits
Richard Shone
Bloomsbury Portraits
Moments of Being
Virginia Woolf
Moments of Being
Vanessa Bell
Frances Spalding
Vanessa Bell
2006 Charleston Festival
This year’s Charleston Festival will run from 20-29 May. The Festival will feature 20 events, three workshops and a special exhibition by artist-in-residence Patti Smith. Charleston Festival
From the BBC, 11 December, 2003
Row over Woolf’s inspiring view
Plans to build a block of luxury apartments on an historic site in Cornwall have provoked strong opposition. BBC: Talland House
From the BBC, 4 April, 2003
British Library buys rare Woolf manuscripts
A series of previously unpublished manuscripts hand-written by Virginia Woolf are among a collection that has been bought by the British Library. BBC: Talland House
From the BBC, 19 February, 2003
Kidman’s obsession
‘I became pretty obsessed with her. I listened to her voice, which I didn’t want to mimic but I tried to absorb it.’ BBC: Kidman
From The Independent 28 April, 2002 and The Guardian 22 June, 2002
Anger over ‘lesbian’ Woolf novel
Sixty years after her death, Virginia Woolf is at the centre of a new literary storm over the publication of an emotionally charged novel purporting to be her ‘rediscovered’ fictional debut. The Independent: Melymbrosia

The Guardian: Melymbrosia
From The Guardian 14 July, 2001
Tail of two cities
Virginia Woolf’s story of a spaniel, set in London and Florence, is as much social comment as dog biography. In short, a veritable canine classic. The Guardian: Flush
From Salon 22 June, 2000
Virginia Woolf: the quiet revolutionary
The author of The Hours celebrates the writer who inspired his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Salon: Virginia Woolf
From The Guardian 13 November, 1999
Interview: Michael Cunningham
‘My favourite thing about winning the prize is the implication that the American experience is broad enough and deep enough to include three women of ambivalent sexuality one of whom is Virginia Woolf.’ The Guardian: Michael Cunningham
From The Guardian 23 October, 1999
Vanessa Bell: a radical regained
‘Overshadowed by the creative talents of friends and family, her work is only now receiving the acclaim it deserves.’ The Guardian: Vanessa Bell
From The Guardian 9 October, 1999
Bohemian rhapsody
‘Stephen Cook retraces Virginia Woolf’s footsteps over the crest of the South Downs to Charleston, which has become the [Bloomsbury] group’s rural shrine.’ The Guardian: Bohemian Rhapsody
From The Guardian 11 January, 1999
Interview: Frances Partridge
‘I don’t know why Lytton sat like this. Perhaps he was showing off his hands. Perhaps he didn’t know what to do them. They were so very extraordinarily long.’ The Guardian: Frances Partridge
Virginia Woolf
life, work and modernism

If you have found (or if you run) a web-site dedicated to Virginia Woolf or some aspect of her life or writing, e-mail the Editor with your site’s URL and it will be included here.

We would also like to include some useful web resources for Leonard Woolf, whose work and achievements have far too little web space devoted to them. Please don’t set up a page or site that deals with any aspect of Leonard Woolf’s life or work without telling us about it.

Virginia Woolf links
Life and work
‘Orlando’ — VW’s life and work; Japanese site
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
Kirjasto Kirjasto — biography & bibliography
IVWS International Virginia Woolf Society — based at the University of Toronto
Leslie Stephen’s photograph album Leslie Stephen’s photograph album: Smith College, USA
Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective: Smith College, USA — interesting, despite daft premise
The works of Virginia Woolf Selfknowledge — links to the first two novels on-line (in html format)
Encarta entry Encarta entry
BBC BBC — biography
Margaret Atwood on To The Lighthouse Margaret Atwood on To The Lighthouse in The Guardian
Review of Lee’s biography New York Times: review of Lee’s biography (8/6/97)
V. Woolf and G. Eliot New Criterion: Complexity and Contradiction, V. Woolf & G. Eliot by Brooke Allen (11/97)
Orlando (1928): on biography and women College of Staten Island Library: Orlando (1928): on biography and women
A Room of One’s Own College of Staten Island Library: A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Orlando: the book as critic Orlando: the book as Critic by Kelly Tetterton — a paper presented to the fifth annual Virginia Woolf Conference
Bibliography Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury: a Bibliography — relates to secondary literature (about the Woolfs and Bloomsbury) and requires Cardbox (free download)
Research bibliography, books and links Research bibliography, books and links — by Russell McNeil on Malaspina
On women and fiction Virginia Woolf on Women & Fiction — a site by Joel Rich and Nancy Henderson
The Movies and Reality The New Republic: The Movies and Reality by Virginia Woolf — essay-review published 4 August, 1926
Bartleby Bartleby — introduction plus eight early short stories on-line, including Monday or Tuesday and The Mark on the Wall
Microfilm: Berg collection Primary Source Microfilm: Virginia Woolf Manuscripts from the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library
Microfilm: Monks House Papers Primary Source Microfilm: Virginia Woolf Manuscripts from the Monks House Papers at the University of Sussex
Woolfpage Woolfpage — by Alice L. Trupe at Bridgewater College, Virginia, USA
Virginia Woolf seminar University of Alabama: Virginia Woolf seminar — ‘collects materials prepared for a graduate seminar in Virginia Woolf; includes student papers, bibliographies and other materials’
Virginia Woolf misc. Pace University: Virginia Woolf miscellanies — ‘proceedings of the first annual conference on Virginia Woolf’
Virginia Woolf’s psychiatric history Virginia Woolf’s psychiatric history — ‘this large site deals with Virginia Woolf’s health and personality’
Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing Similarities between Virginia Woolf and Doris Lessing by Lynda Scott at the University of Otago, New Zealand
Virginia Woolf web-ring Virginia Woolf web-ring — five sites
Graduate seminar on Virginia Woolf & T.S. Eliot Clemson University: Graduate seminar on Virginia Woolf & T.S. Eliot
Message board Message board — lively
Message board Another message board — closely related but not the same
24 Hour Museum To the Lighthouse & Beyond: A Virginia Woolf Trail: 24 Hour Museum
Virginia Woolf & Hogarth House Richmond Council: Virginia Woolf & Hogarth House (PDF)
New York Times: Voyage Out review
New York Times review: The Voyage Out (18/6/20)
The Manchester Guardian: Jacob's Room The Manchester Guardian review: Jacob’s Room (3/11/22)
New York Times: oldster New York Times: An oldster enters a protest (10/3/23) — ‘If this sort of thing doesn’t indicate degeneration and perversion, what does it indicate?’
New York Times: Mrs Dalloway review New York Times review: Mrs Dalloway (10/5/25)
New York Times: Common Reader review New York Times review: The Common Reader (31/5/25)
New York Times: To the Lighthouse review New York Times review: To the Lighthouse (8/5/27)
New York Times: Orlando review New York Times review: Orlando (21/10/28)
New York Times: The Waves review New York Times review: The Waves (25/10/31)
New York Times: The Years review New York Times review: The Years (11/4/37)
New York Times: believed dead New York Times: Virginia Woolf believed dead (3/4/41)
New York Times: Between the Acts review New York Times review: Between the Acts (5/10/41)
New York Times review: The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays New York Times review: The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (7/5/50)
New York Times: A Writer’s Diary review New York Times review: A Writer’s Diary (21/2/54)
University of Sussex: The Monk’s House Papers and the Leonard Woolf Papers
University of Sussex: The Monk’s House Papers & the Leonard Woolf Papers — introduction & hand-lists
Quentin Bell interview Quentin Bell interview — Brazilian writer Antonio Bivar interviews Quentin Bell: excellent
Monk’s House Gregarious tenant sought for the Woolfs’ lair — from The Guardian
Monk’s House Monk’s House
Mitz Mitz — actually a sales page for a book about L.W.’s marmoset, but well worth a look
Lytton Strachey Paul Levy on Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians in The Guardian
Gwen Raverat Book review: Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family & Affections by Frances Spalding — reviewed in The Guardian by Robert McCrum
Papers of Julian Bell The Papers of Julian Heward Bell: Cambridge University
Papers of Angelica Garnett The Papers of Angelica Garnett (née Bell): Cambridge University
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Left: Virginia Woolf by Quentin Bell
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