Marjorie Garber’s new book traces Shakespeare as an animating influence for Virginia Woolf and other members of the Bloomsbury Group The Bloomsbury Group, that culturally and intellectually eminent ...

On the back of a folded letter fragment, Duncan Grant sketched his friend Vanessa Bell. The small pencil drawing is both ...

Establishing a new cultural scene with a distinctly modern outlook in England in the early 20th century, the Bloomsbury Group was a circle of intellectuals who have continued to influence new ...

You know you’re in store for an intellectual swerve into fashion when Virginia Woolf’s disembodied voice opens a runway show. “Words, English words, are full of echoes, of memories, of ...

British designer Clare Waight Keller is most famous for dressing Meghan Markle on her wedding day. The former creative director of Chloé and Givenchy has long been partial to elegant swoops of silk ...

I went to Shakespeare’s Globe to see “The Winter’s Tale” in London last March, on a freezing, rainy night. The mood was brightened by the production’s droll Autolycus, one of the Bard’s great con men ...

An exhibition about the bohemian set’s “philosophy of fashion” goes deeper than just clothes. By Emily LaBarge The critic Emily LaBarge traveled from London to Lewes, England, to see the show “Bring ...

Charleston is a farmhouse in East Sussex, England, that was once a gathering place for the Bloomsbury group, a collective of early 20th-century British artists, writers and thinkers such as Virginia ...

Few feelings are more thrilling for a literature scholar than unearthing an archival gem. Urmila Seshagiri, professor of ...

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Nearly a century ago, British author Virginia Woolf is said to have refused to sit for a likeness for the National Portrait Gallery in London because of the absence of paintings of women on the walls.