Comments on: Alliance of Sisters: The Complex Relationship of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell

By: Nava Atlas

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:37:49 +0000

In reply to madi.

Thank you, Madi — kudos to the contributor of this article, Elodie Barnes.

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By: madi

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:58:50 +0000

Simply came for a quote about Virginia for class and had to read the whole article. Absolutely gorgeous, I was engrossed

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By: Nava Atlas

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:51:38 +0000

In reply to Lin Pollock.

Thank you, Lin — I’ve added this title to the top of the Further Reading list. Your comment about the Pimlico edition will be here for all to see as well.

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By: Lin Pollock

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:16:15 +0000

Quentin Bell’s prize winning biography of Virginia Woolf is a truly glorious book. I enjoyed it far more than other works I have read on Virginia. Why is it not mentioned here?
The one volume edition by Pimlico is a revised version with sketches and photographs and well worth reading.

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By: Kathleen S. Schmitt

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 21:53:04 +0000

Having come upon this article late, I just wished to mention Helen Humphrey’s novel THE LOST GARDEN in which the protagonist, a horticulturist working on a farm in Devon in 1941 lives out her devotion to Virginia Woolf in the shadow of Woolf’s disappearance and death.

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By: Nava Atlas

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:05:35 +0000

In reply to Gabriella West.

Gabriella, you’re right; theirs has been described as a “romantic friendship.” And I will edit that. The nature of their physical intimacy is still being argued, unless you have something you can point me to?

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By: Gabriella West

Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:58:44 +0000

I will say that Violet Dickinson was more than just a “family friend.” She was Virginia’s lover for a few years!

Other than that, the piece was very interesting.

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By: Nava Atlas

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 22:11:19 +0000

In reply to Kate Hegarty.

Thank you for pointing that out, Kate; of course, it was a typo and that date has been deleted. That novel sounds quite intriguing!

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By: Kate Hegarty

Wed, 26 Jul 2023 21:07:11 +0000

This is a wonderful, insightful piece, but for the glaring error; Virginia did not write to anyone in 1952. She died in 1941.
I have just read a wonderful Australian novel called This Devastating Fever, a magic realist work which offers in part, Leonard’s point of view. This essay resonates beautifully with that novel.

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