Adam Woolf from Greenpeace also stated that, " fifty years ago there were many experts who would be lined up and swear there was no link between smoking and bad health.

In the 20th century she was championed by a new breed of critics, most notably by Virginia Woolf, who called Middlemarch " one of the few English novels written for grown-up people ".

Henri Bergson ( 1859 – 1941 ), on the other hand, emphasized the difference between scientific, clock time and the direct, subjective, human experience of time His work on time and consciousness " had a great influence on twentieth-century novelists ," especially those modernists who used the stream of consciousness technique, such as Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, ( 1915 ), James Joyce, Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Virginia Woolf ( 1882 – 1941 ) Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ), To the Lighthouse ( 1927 ).

" Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al, was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf, among other very serious, unfunny people ", wrote Andrew Ferguson, who named it, in a Wall Street Journal article, one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.

Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".

At Trinity in 1899 Strachey, Woolf, Sydney-Turner and Bell became good friends with Thoby Stephen, who introduced them to his sisters Vanessa and Virginia in London, and in this way the Bloomsbury Group came into being.

Virginia Woolf published her radical feminist polemic Three Guineas that shocked some of her fellow members including Keynes who had enjoyed the gentler A Room of One ’ s Own ( 1929 ).

Virginia Woolf, who otherwise betrayed little regard for Dickens, confessed the durability of this one novel, for it belongs, she said, to " the memories and myths of life ".

Indeed, he might have influenced stream-of-consciousness writers such as Virginia Woolf, who not only read some of his novels but also wrote essays about them.

The area gives its name to the Bloomsbury Group ( also Bloomsbury Set ) of artists, the most famous of whom was Virginia Woolf, who met in private homes in the area in the early 1900s, and to the lesser known Bloomsbury Gang of Whigs formed in 1765 by John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford.

In an interview published in American Literary History, Kingston disclosed her admiration for Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, and William Carlos Williams, who were inspirational influences for her work, shaping her analysis of gender studies.

She also explores research that identifies mood disorders in such famous writers and artists as Ernest Hemingway ( who shot himself after electroconvulsive treatment ), Virginia Woolf ( who drowned herself when she felt a depressive episode coming on ), composer Robert Schumann ( who died in a mental institution ), and even the famed visual artist Michelangelo.

Later, Lady Ottoline remained a regular host to the adherents of the Bloomsbury Group, in particular Virginia Woolf, and to many other artists and authors, who included WB Yeats, LP Hartley, T. S.

Other writers who have used similar techniques include Virginia Woolf, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Thomas Mann, Chuck Palahniuk, and Julian Barnes in his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters.

In his autobiography Close Up ( 2004 ), British actor John Fraser claimed that Harvey was gay and that his long-term lover was his manager James Woolf, who " discovered " Harvey in the 1950s.

Woolf and her husband, Leonard, who had recently set up Hogarth Press, approached her for a story, and Mansfield presented " Prelude ", which she had begun writing in 1915 as The Aloe.

Another significant modernist in the 1920s was Virginia Woolf ( 1882-1941 ), who was an influential feminist and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream-of-consciousness technique.

Woolf, who was riding him, said that he felt the horse stumble, when the stallion hit the ground hard with one leg.

By never having these characters meet, Woolf is suggesting that mental illness can be contained to the individuals who suffer from it without others who remain unaffected ever having to witness it.

Their name is derived from a passage from the Virginia Woolf story " The Mark on the Wall " which reads, " I wish I could hit upon a pleasant track of thought, a track indirectly reflecting credit upon myself, for those are the pleasantest thoughts, and very frequent even in the minds of modest, mouse-coloured people, who believe genuinely that they dislike to hear their own praises.

Heraclitus, Plato, Freud, Woolf and Wittgenstein are among the thinkers who figure prominently in her philosophical work, which challenges the hegemonic status of logico-linguistic analysis in 20th and 21st Century Anglo-American philosophy.

In the 20th century, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, and Gale Wilhelm wrote popular works that had same-sex relationships or gender transformations as themes.

E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell had independent incomes.

Following Virginia ’ s death Leonard Woolf began editing collections of her writings including a selection from her diaries, A Writer ’ s Diary ( 1953 ), which revealed publicly for the first time what the Bloomsbury Group had been like.

Woolf has further demonstrated that by the time of Malcolm II, the leading cenela of Dal Riata had moved from the southwest of the region ( north of the Firths ) to the north, east, and northeast, with Cenel Loairn moving up the Great Glen to occupy Moray, the former and sometimes still Fortriu, one branch of Cenel nGabhrain occupying the district known as Gowrie and another the district of Fife, Cenel nOengusa giving its name to Circinn as Angus, Cenel Comgaill occupying Strathearn, and another lesser known kindred, Cenel Conaing, probably moving to Mar.

Following that, he and Taylor had a great success in Mike Nichols's film ( 1966 ) of the Edward Albee play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, in which a bitter erudite couple spend the evening trading vicious barbs in front of their horrified and fascinated guests, played by George Segal and Sandy Dennis.

With Lady Ottoline Morrell, Leonard Woolf and Harry Norton he took part in Ezra Pound's scheme to ' get Eliot out of the bank ' ( Eliot had a job in the international department of Lloyd's, a London bank, and well-meaning friends wanted him full-time writing poetry ).

The LSE announced in a statement that it had accepted his resignation with " great regret " and that it had set up an external inquiry into the school's relationship with the Libyan regime and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, to be conducted by the former lord chief justice Harry Woolf.

Before Woolf had even published his final report, Sir Geoffrey Bowman, a partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers and former First Parliamentary Counsel, was commissioned to write a report on the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal.

Her husband Leonard Woolf continued to live there until his death in 1969, and after a few more residents had passed through, it was bought by the University of Sussex, before being acquired and restored by the National Trust.

* The author, Virginia Woolf, recorded in a memoir how she herself ' had lain in bed ... thinking that the birds were singing Greek choruses and that King Edward was using the foulest possible language among Ozzie Dickinson's azaleas '

In the 1990s, she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington, including Medea in 1992 ( which transferred to the Wyndham's Theatre in 1993 and then Broadway in 1994, for which she received the Tony Award for Best Actress ), Mother Courage at the National Theatre in 1995 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Vanessa's sister, the author Virginia Woolf later wrote in her biography of Fry: ‘ He had more knowledge and experience than the rest of us put together '.

Virginia Woolf later said, " On or about December 1910 human character changed ," referring to the effect this exhibit had on the world.

The two were locked together for the first straight and, by the time Woolf had his horse disentangled, they were six lengths from the pace.

Following advice he had received from Pollard, Woolf had eased up on Seabiscuit, allowing his horse to see his rival, and then asked for more effort.

Woolf had also been treated for her condition at various asylums, from which her hatred of doctors developed.

Theater critic and historian Burns Mantle cited a letter he received from Woolf saying “ Mamzelle Champagne was my Columbia Varsity Show, and was transported by a manager, Henry Pincus, to the open Madison Square Roof with a professional cast .” However, The Varsity Show ’ s own website disputes this “ legend ”, saying Mam ’ zelle was Woolf ’ s first professional show and not the one he had written as a student in the class of 1901.

Duckworth's father died before his birth, and when he was eight his mother married the author Leslie Stephen, and had four more children: Virginia Stephen, later the author Virginia Woolf, the painter Vanessa Bell, and two sons, Thoby and Adrian Stephen.

Woolf plays the ancient Egyptian god Sutekh, whom he had previously played as a Doctor Who villain in the 1975 story Pyramids of Mars.

Virginia and her husband Leonard Woolf were publishers, and had previously published William Plomer's works, and it was through Plomer's connections that van der Post gained introduction to the Woolfs and the Bloomsbury Set.

The novel, like many of those written by Woolf, was previously considered impossible to adapt for the screen, because it took place over 400 years and followed a character whose sex changes from a man to a woman ; therefore, funding the feature proved difficult and Orlando took seven years to complete, despite filming and editing only taking 20 weeks.