Sentence examples for woolf from inspiring English sources

She is the managing editorial director of the literary Vintage Publishing division of Penguin Random House, which publishes innumerable prize-winning authors, dead and living, from Amis to Woolf, via Nigella and Schama and beyond, and includes the latest Man Booker Prize-winner, Richard Flanagan.

By chance, thanks to official determination to honour her fellow lawyer, fellow sex inquiry drop-out, and now, fellow dame, Fiona Woolf, the programme's instant dame-facility could not have been more timely.

Lady Soames and Lady Woolf, the widow of his chief of staff, were among many who stayed loyal.

"No single theory explains why this is happening," said Martínez, a Barcelona-based impresario whose recent successes include a run of Edward Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

There is a degree of relish in her voice as she talks me through the journey on which Orlando goes, the way the character's life is reflected in lovers taken along the way, the way she is briefly "consumed by sex, by what Woolf called the vulture of lust", the way "she learns from the world" and the way in which Orlando, ultimately, "becomes herself in the end".

The novel, published in 1928, is Woolf at her most playful, toying with ideas of biography, identity and gender.

A pioneering modernist writer, Mansfield was born and brought up in colonial New Zealand before moving to Britain, where she became friends with DH Lawrence and Virginia Woolf.

Julia Jackson, a niece of Mrs Cameron and a frequent model of hers, became the mother of Virginia Woolf.

The best answer surely is to stay at home with a good book, and what better than Michael Cunningham's homage to Virginia Woolf, "The Hours".

In the pre-war period Fabian authors such as Leonard Woolf, RH Tawney and GDH Cole created an intellectual basis for democratic socialism.

Lloyds of London appointing their first female chief executive, Inga Beale and we now have the second woman ever to hold the position of Lord Mayor of London, Fiona Woolf.