Imagine a tipsy room of eminent painters, poets, and intellectuals, laughing as they wait for a play to begin. Virginia Woolf sits alongside E.M. Forster; T.S. Eliot may pop in. Clive Bell’s booming laughter can be heard above the chatter; Woolf will later describe the atmosphere as ‘unbuttoned’. In 1930s London, the Bloomsbury Group often […]
On a rather damp Sunday evening I went down to the Cameo to watch the 30th anniversary screening of Orlando. I had wanted to watch Orlando for some time, having heard it been hailed as “a subversive history film”, “a feminist masterpiece”, “one of the most important queer films”, and more. However, whilst I expected […]
Virginia Woolf convincingly argues that a woman needs money and a room of her own if she is to compose fiction in her 1929 essay A Room of One’s Own. This text, displaying radical feminist themes, offered and continues to provide young female readers with hope in a brutally patriarchal world built by men for […]
On stage, Mrs Dalloway says she will buy the flowers herself and so the play begins. There is only one woman on stage, and she gives voice to every character and to their deepest darkest thoughts. It is for this unique performance that Dalloway is perhaps one of the greatest adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs […]
How best to talk about literature and resistance? Perhaps historically, looking at the works of Thomas Hardy, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens and Henry James, for example. Alternatively, one could look at the most recent publication by George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage, using his book as a manual to show activists how they can change […]