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Virginia Woolf, original name in full Adeline Virginia Stephen, (born January 25, 1882, London, England—died March 28, 1941, near Rodmell, Sussex), English writer whose novels, through their nonlinear approaches to narrative, exerted a major influence on the genre. While she is best known for her novels, especially Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), Woolf also wrote pioneering essays on artistic theory, literary history, women’s writing, and the politics of power. A fine stylist, she experimented with several forms of biographical writing, composed painterly short fictions...

The celebrated English author, who was dogged by mental illness throughout her life, drowned herself in the River Ouse near her Sussex home in 1941, aged 59.

The controversial £50,000 bronze bust was given the green light by Richmond Council last year, but campaigners fear it is in bad taste, insensitive, and could even trigger copycat suicide attempts.

In a coda to the AMM feature in The Wire 461, pianist John Tilbury tells Clive Bell a personal story of the much-admired musical grandfather he never met

Aspects of Love launched Michael Ball and starred an unlikely Roger Moore. But with its queasy sexual politics, should it really be revived?