News about Leonard Woolf

Labour-run Camden Council added the digital tag on the famed writer's monument (left) in Bloomsbury, central London , which outlines Woolf's 'imperialist attitudes'. The measure is part of a scheme drawn up in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests to address the connections between local statues and 'racism, slavery... [and] imperialism'. When scanned, the QR code brings up a lengthy explanation of Woolf's 'unacceptable views'. But the move has outraged the author's great-niece, Emma Woolf (right), who wrote on X: 'You couldn't make it up. The wokerati of Camden Council have decided that this statue of my great-aunt Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury needs a QR code to explain her ''offensive' attitudes.'

In 1941, the celebrated English author (pictured right), who was plagued by mental illness throughout her life, drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home. The latest £50,000 bronze statue, which was unveiled this week, is in bad taste, 'insensitive,' and may even lead to similar suicide attempts, according to campaigners. However, Woolf's great-great niece Sophie Partridge (far left) said at the unveiling ceremony that the project had a "very narrow way of thinking," and that her late relative should not be defined by the way she died.