Editing Virginia Woolf (section)

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Virginia Woolf is known for her contributions to 20th-century literature and her essays, as well as the influence she has had on literary, particularly feminist criticism. A number of authors have stated that their work was influenced by her, including [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Michael Cunningham]],{{efn|"Like my hero Virginia Woolf, I do lack confidence. I always find that the novel I'm finishing, even if it's turned out fairly well, is not the novel I had in my mind."{{sfn|Brockes|2011}}}} [[Gabriel García Márquez]],{{efn|"after having read Ulysses in English as well as a very good French translation, I can see that the original Spanish translation was very bad. But I did learn something that was to be very useful to me in my future writing—the technique of the interior monologue. I later found this in Virginia Woolf, and I like the way she uses it better than Joyce."{{sfn|Stone|1981}}}} and [[Toni Morrison]].{{efn|"I wrote on Woolf and Faulkner. I read a lot of Faulkner then. You might not know this, but in the '50s, American literature was new. It was renegade. English literature was English. So there were these avant-garde professors making American literature a big deal. That tickles me now."{{sfn|Bollen|2012}}}} Her iconic image{{sfn|Silver|1999}} is instantly recognisable from the portrait of her aged 20 by [[George Charles Beresford]] (at the top of this page) to the Beck and Macgregor portrait in her mother's dress in ''Vogue'' at 44 (see {{harvtxt|Fry|1913}}) or [[Man Ray]]'s cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine (see {{harvtxt|Ray|1937}}) at 55.<ref name=License8/> More postcards of Woolf are sold by London's [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]] than of any other person.{{sfn|Stimpson|1999}} Her image is ubiquitous and can be found on products ranging from tea towels to T-shirts.<ref name=License8/>

Virginia Woolf is studied around the world, with organisations devoted to her, such as the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain,{{sfn|VWS|2017}} and The Virginia Woolf Society of Japan.{{sfn|VWSJ|2023}} In addition, trusts—such as the Asham Trust—encourage writers in her honour.{{sfn|Asham|2018}}

In January 2025 Sophie Oliver, a lecturer of modernism at the [[University of Liverpool]], discovered two previously unknown poems by Woolf, at the [[Harry Ransom Center]], at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. Oliver estimated the date of the poems, which reveal "a different shade" to Woolf, as sometime after March 1927.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5260964/virginia-woolf-poems-niece-nephew |title=Newly discovered poems show Virginia Woolf as a fun aunt |first=Andrew |last=Limbong |publisher=npr.org |date=17 January 2025 |access-date=19 January 2025}}</ref>

=== Monuments and memorials ===
[[File:Richmond Riverside, statue of Virginia Woolf (3).jpg|thumb|Statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames created by Laury Dizengremel]]
In 2013, Woolf was honoured by her alma mater King's College London with the opening of the Virginia Woolf Building on [[Kingsway, London|Kingsway]],{{sfn|King's College, London|2013}} together with an exhibit depicting her accompanied by the quotation "London itself perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play & a story & a poem" from her 1926 diary.<ref name=Squier204/> The [[University of Kent]] also named a college after her—[[Woolf College, Kent|Woolf College]], which was built in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Woolf College |url=https://www.kent.ac.uk/maps/canterbury/canterbury-campus/building/woolf-college/ |access-date=8 November 2024 |website=University of Kent}}</ref>

Busts of Virginia Woolf have been erected at her home in Rodmell, Sussex, and at Tavistock Square, London, where she lived between 1924 and 1939. She is also honoured at Tavistock Square by the Woolf & Whistle, a bar that is located near where her house once stood.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Woolf & Whistle |url=https://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/hotels/tavistock-hotel/restaurants-bars/the-woolf--whistle/57-7/ |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=www.imperialhotels.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> 

In 2014, she was one of the inaugural honorees in the [[Rainbow Honor Walk]], a [[List of halls and walks of fame|walk of fame]] in [[San Francisco]]'s [[Castro District, San Francisco|Castro neighbourhood]] noting [[LGBTQ]] people who have "made significant contributions in their fields".{{sfn|Barmann|2014}}

A campaign was launched in 2018 to erect a statue of Woolf in Richmond-upon-Thames, where she lived for 10 years.{{sfn|Flood|2020}} In November 2022 the statue, created by sculptor Laury Dizengremel, was unveiled. It depicts Woolf on a bench overlooking the River Thames and is the first full-size statue of Woolf.{{sfn|Guest|2022}}{{sfn|Temple|2022}}

=== Portrayals ===
[[File:Stamps of Romania, 2007-013.jpg|thumb|Virginia Woolf on a 2007 [[Postage stamps and postal history of Romania|Romanian postage stamp]]|alt=Virginia Woolf portrayed on Romanian postage stamp in 2007]]

* Michael Cunningham's 1998 [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Hours (novel)|The Hours]]'' focused on three generations of women affected by Woolf's novel ''[[Mrs Dalloway]]''. In 2002, a [[The Hours (film)|film version]] of the novel was released, starring [[Nicole Kidman]] as Woolf. Kidman won the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for her performance.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b864d95e5|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811121554/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b864d95e5|archive-date=August 11, 2016|title=The Hours|publisher=[[British Film Institute]]|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* Susan Sellers's novel ''Vanessa and Virginia'' (2008) explores the close sibling relationship between Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell. It was adapted for the stage by Elizabeth Wright in 2010 and first performed by Moving Stories Theatre Company.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Vanessa and Virginia |url=http://movingstories.org.uk/vanessa-and-virginia |url-status=live |website=Moving Stories}}</ref>
* Priya Parmar's 2014 novel ''Vanessa and Her Sister'' also examined the Stephen sisters' relationship during the early years of their association with what became known as the Bloomsbury Group.{{sfn|Parmar|2015}}
* In the 2014 novel ''The House at the End of Hope Street'', Woolf is featured as one of the women who has lived in the titular house.{{sfn|van Praag|2014}}
* Virginia is portrayed by both [[Lydia Leonard]] and [[Catherine McCormack]] in the BBC's three-part drama series ''[[Life in Squares]]'' (2015).{{sfn|Coe|2015}}
* The 2018 film ''[[Vita and Virginia]]'' depicts the relationship between [[Vita Sackville-West]] and Woolf, portrayed by [[Gemma Arterton]] and [[Elizabeth Debicki]] respectively.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=2019-07-04 |title=Vita & Virginia review – a hothouse of patrician passion |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/vita-virginia-review-gemma-arterton-elizabeth-debicki-isabella-rossellini |access-date=2024-09-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
* In 2022, an [[The Hours (opera)|opera of ''The Hours'']] by composer [[Kevin Puts]] and librettist Greg Pierce premiered at the Metropolitan Opera to acclaim.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Salazar |first=David |date=2022-11-23 |title=Metropolitan Opera 2022-23 Review: The Hours |url=https://operawire.com/metropolitan-opera-2022-23-review-the-hours/ |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=OperaWire |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Adaptations ===
* [[Sally Potter]] adapted ''Orlando'' (1928) for the screen in 1992, starring [[Tilda Swinton]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pronger |first=Rachel |date=September 20, 2022 |title=Orlando: The most subversive history film ever made |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220913-orlando-the-most-subversive-history-film-ever-made |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240120030204/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220913-orlando-the-most-subversive-history-film-ever-made |archive-date=January 20, 2024 |access-date=March 7, 2025 |website=[[BBC]]}}</ref>
* Woolf's play ''Freshwater'' (1935) is the basis for a 1994 [[chamber opera]], ''[[Freshwater (opera)|Freshwater]]'', by [[Andy Vores]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/440608353/?clipping_id=171542757|title='Freshwater' is lightsome opera|first=Richard|last=Dyer|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|page=47|date=2 December 1994|access-date=2 May 2025|via=newspapers.com}}</ref>
* ''Septimus and Clarissa'', a stage adaptation of ''Mrs Dalloway'', was created and produced by the New York-based ensemble Ripe Time in 2011. It was adapted by [[Ellen McLaughlin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://brooklynrail.org/2011/09/theater/the-mindscape-of-septimus-and-clarissa-ripe-time-adapts-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway/|title=The Mindscape of ''Septimus and Clarissa'': Ripe Time Adapts Virginia Woolf's ''Mrs. Dalloway''|first=Patricia|last=Laurence|website=[[The Brooklyn Rail]]|date=September 2011|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/16/theater/reviews/septimus-and-clarissa-an-adaptation-of-mrs-dalloway-review.html|title=The Dance of the City on a Day in June|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|first=Eric|last=Grode|date=15 September 2011|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref>
* In 2014, artist Kabe Wilson produced a novella and artwork entitled ''Of One Woman Or So'', created over five years by rearranging the words of Woolf's 1929 essay ''A Room of One's Own''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.artkabe.com/#/other-projects/|title=Selected Projects (2009-) {{!}} Olivia N'Gowfri - Of One Woman or So (2009-2014)|website=A T Kabe Wilson|access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/26/virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-kabe-wilson-of-one-woman-or-so|title=Kabe Wilson rearranges words of Woolf's 1929 essay to produce novella anagrammatically entitled Of One Woman Or So|first=Alison|last=Flood|newspaper=The Guardian|date=26 September 2014|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/theconveyor/kabe-wilson-of-one-woman-or-so-virginia-woolf-remixed/|title=Kabe Wilson 'Of One Woman or So': Virginia Woolf Remixed {{!}} from Dennis Duncan|first=Andrew|last=Bonnie|website=The Bodleian Conveyor|publisher=Bodleian Libraries|date=8 May 2015|access-date=2 May 2025}}</ref>
* ''[[Woolf Works]]'', a contemporary ballet inspired by Woolf's novels, letters, essays and diaries, choreographed by [[Wayne McGregor]], premiered in May 2015.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/may/02/royal-ballet-virginia-woolf-works-wayne-mcgregor|title=Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Not the Royal Ballet|first=Judith|last=Mackrell|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 May 2025|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref>
* The final segment of the 2018 [[anthology film]] ''[[London Unplugged]]'' is adapted from Woolf's short story "[[Kew Gardens (short story)|Kew Gardens]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://filmuforia.com/london-unplugged-2018/|title=London Unplugged (2018) ***|website=Filmuforia|date=14 January 2019|first=Meredith|last=Taylor|access-date=1 May 2025}}</ref>