“Penning and pinning”: Vita, Virginia, and Orlando

This chapter explores the associations of pen and ink with male power and eroticism, arguing that Woolf wrote Orlando as a means to lay claim to her lover Sackville-West.

Thinking Is Our Fighting: How to Read and Write Like Woolf in the Age of Trump

This chapter considers Woolf's place within a tradition of 'creative resistance' and calls for contemporary readers to follow her model of an iconic reader, activist and thinker.

Bibliographers, Booksellers, and Collectors of the Hogarth Press

This chapter considers the treasures of the Hogarth Press available to collectors, including rare, limited edition books hand-printed by the Woolfs. It explores the intellectual pleasures of collecting objects and touches on the lives of Hogarth Press collectors.

Alternative Histories: Hogarth Press’s World-Makers and World-Shakers Series

This chapter considers the World Makers and World-Shakers series published by the Hogarth Press and its place in educational reform.

Echo’s Voices: Virginia Woolf, Irena Krzywicka, and The Well of Loneliness1

This chapter compares the reception of Hall's novel in Britain and Poland and its important legacy to the LGBTQ community. Pajak states that the novel survived because of the intellectual modernist network, which acted as custodians of literary culture.

A Voice in the Archives: In Search of Woolf’s Lost Tape

This chapter details the search for a cassette tape that promised a lost recording of Woolf's voice.

Getting a Hold on Haddock: Virginia Woolf’s Inksp

This chapter is a transcript of Bishop's keynote address at the 27th Annual Virginia Woolf conference. He considers the inks available to Woolf and how the act of composing and the act of writing were inseparable for her.

Defining Life in Essays and Reports: “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown” and the Government Reports on Infant Human Mortality

This chapter revisits two major points in Woolf's essay 'Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown' - that human nature changed in or about December 1910, and that novelists have become too caught up in 'things' as they try to understand human character.

Zines, Polyvocality, and Sound: How Modernist First-Wave Feminism Inspired Riot Grrrl

This essay compares Virginia Woolf to Riot Grrrl's punk feminists, presenting the latter as leaders of an informed political and literary movement. It examines the way in which Woolf's writing was foundational in developing third-wave theory: Wilson views Woolf's work through a radical lens that emphasises the subversion of the novel and intersectional class consciousness.

Virginia Woolf: Translation, Reception and Impact in Brazil

This chapter considers how Woolf has been read and translated transatlantically and how these translations reflect the political, historical and gendered debates of modernism. Oliveira charts the timeline of Woolf's translations in Brazil and explores their impact on Brazilian women writers, searching for a South American Woolf.