News about Virginia Woolf

Scientists have found that walking for just a short time can boost brain power, with positive results for creativity, problem-solving, and lifelong cognitive health. Sitting for 20 minutes (left) results in much less brain activity than walking for 20 minutes (right). These benefits seem to hold for people of all ages.

Nicole Kidman recalled the traumatic experience she received her Oscar in 2003 after her estrangement from Tom Cruise. After 11 years of marriage, the Australian actress, 56, received her first Academy Award for her role in The Hours, shortly after deciding she would divorce from the Top Gun actor, 61. 'I was struggling with things in my personal life, yet my professional life was going so well,' she revealed to author Dave Karger in his new book 50 Oscar Nights, as per People, adding, 'That's what happens, right?'

Businesses seeking jobs from a London council are being scrutinized for their 'LGBT' values.' Camden Council will scrutinize companies and their employees to ensure that they have the correct beliefs regarding topics such as gender and sexuality. According to internal documents obtained by Freedom of Information requests, businesses are being asked to demonstrate their commitment to LGBTQ+ equality before we procure them.' The Labour-run council will now only work with companies whose values align with ours.' The files, first published by The Daily Telegraph, show that by using approved companies, the council intends to 'positively influence' social attitudes within the council's electoral wards.

Academic commentators of the notable work have referred to the decision by including a trigger warning in the US version of EM Forster's A Passage To India by publishers The Modern Library has been described as 'troubling' by academic followers of the valuable work. The warning, they say, is "completely unnecessary" and that the job is being "dragged into a culture war with no connection to the subject matter.' The book is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, and it is notable for its critique of imperialism and depictions of Indians as culturally equals.

Danny and Dani Do Italy's viewers were in hysterics on Sunday night's episode as the actor performed a dramatic monologue of fairy tales Goldilocks and the Three Bears. As they tried to broaden their cultural horizons, the former EastEnders cast member, 45, and his Love Island winner Dani, 26, were seen visiting The Bay of Poets, which is located in the northern Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Italy. The gulf, who has been lauded by wordsmiths Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and others, is one of the spoken word's greatest fans.

Woolf, who wrote Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own, visited Blo Norton Hall in 1906 when she was 24 years old and wrote a novella there, using the building as the setting for it. Prince Frederick Duleep Singh, son of the last Maharaja of the Sikh Empire and godson of Queen Victoria, rented the 16th century moated manor shortly after Woolf's stay. Savills, a Grade II* listed nine-bedroom hall in Norfolk, is now on the market, according to Savills, who claim the property is steeped in history.

Sarah Watling's enchanting book brings alive with great detail a small group of believable characters who went to Spain during the Civil War, putting them in jeopardy. Fired by absolute certainty that right was on their side, they were determined, with words, photographs, and actions, to warn the rigidly non-interventionist United States, Britain, and France that they must intervene to stem the tide of fascism that has swept across Europe. They were purely optimistic, determined to make the world a better place.

CRAIG BROWN: Marie, Queen of Roumania's granddaughter, published her own autobiography, The Story Of My Life, almost 90 years ago. Virginia Woolf, who was reviewing it in the magazine Time And Tide, said that no other book published in 1934 was either interesting or strange. She wrote four reasons: 'She is Queen; that she writes; that no royal person has ever been allowed to write; and that the ramifications could be very serious.' The royals were, Woolf's words, "an experiment in human nature reproduction" and therefore "of utmost psychological interest."

Emma Corrin, the 26-year-old androgynous beauty, has gone from fame to actress after she stroking timidly through her fringe as a teen Princess Diana in The Crown and then swiftly shifting pronouns from she to they, the ultimate pinnacle of non-binary identity. Who better, then, to play the title role in Neil Bartlett's funny but also moving adaptation of Orlando, Virginia Woolf's gender-bending, time-travelling flight of fancy? It's a frisky romp through the centuries, with Orlando first as a man and then as a woman, investigating sex, sexuality, sexism, and ecstasy: where to find it and with whom.

After a five-year fight over the River Thames, the controversial lifesize statue of the legendary British author sitting peering over the Thames will be unveiled in Richmond, south west London. Last year, Richmond Council approved the £50,000 bronze statue (left), but campaigners claim it is in bad taste, insensitive, and even started copycat suicide attempts. Virginia Woolf (right), who was dogged by mental illness throughout her life, died in 1941 when she drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home, age 59.

We're talking Bloomsbury style here, with color, pattern, and decorative touches on every surface and stick of furniture. This exuberant interiors look, created around 100 years ago in Charleston, the home of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, is back and bolder than ever. Bell and Grant were part of the Bloomsbury group, a group of writers and artists, including Bell's sister Virginia Woolf, and the Sussex farmhouse became the group's gathering place, where they enlivened the group's dark interiors with paint together.