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.

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.

Woolf suggests that Constantine and his cousin Donald may have passed Giric's reign in exile in Ireland where their aunt Máel Muire was wife of two successive High Kings of Ireland, Áed Findliath and Flann Sinna.

Malcolm Fraser's mother, Una Woolf, was of Jewish descent on her own father's side.

* May 5 – The novel To the Lighthouse was finished by Virginia Woolf.

Among Keynes's Bloomsbury friends, Lopokova was, at least initially, subjected to criticism for her manners, mode of conversation and supposedly humble social origins – the latter of the ostensible causes being particularly noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf.

The Bloomsbury Group — or Bloomsbury Set — was an enormously influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf were sisters, and their brothers, the older Thoby and the younger Adrian, can also be considered original members of the group, ( as were some other Cambridge figures-indeed, to some, " Bloomsbury was really Cambridge in London ").

Yet at the same time, theirs was a sophisticated, civilized, and highly articulated shared ideal of pleasure: as Virginia Woolf put it, their " triumph is in having worked out a view of life which was not by any means corrupt or sinister or merely intellectual ; rather ascetic and austere indeed ; which still holds, and keeps them dining together, and staying together, after 20 years ".

Virginia Woolf was writing and publishing her most widely-read modernist novels and essays, E. M. Forster completed A Passage to India which remains the most highly regarded novel on British imperialism in India.

I was in there having a beer one night, and I saw " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

", which became closely associated with Davis after it was referenced in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?, and impersonators began to use it in their acts.

He was awarded the Woolf Barnato Award, SCCA's highest award for contributions to the Club, in 1954.

The Round House, a secluded former windmill in Pipe Passage, was owned by the writer Virginia Woolf.

He was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct exemplifies the very best example of participants in the sport of thoroughbred racing.

As her great-niece Virginia Woolf wrote in the 1926 introduction to the Hogarth Press collection of Cameron's photographs, " In the trio sisters where ... was Beauty ; and Dash ; Mrs. Cameron was undoubtedly Talent ".

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.

It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by James Woolf and John Woolf.

O ’ Neill notes that Cavendish ’ s natural philosophy, and writing in general, was criticized by many of her contemporaries as well as by more recent readers, such as Samuel Pepys, Henry More and Virginia Woolf.

It depicts Woolf riding Seabiscuit to victory in the 1938 upset match race against War Admiral.

Despite the severe setback, he rebounded to his old form, riding Kotashaan to victory in the 1993 Breeders ' Cup Turf and at the end of the year his peers voted him the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

* 1946 – Popular Canadian-American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race ; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.

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 English author Virginia Woolf wrote essays upon him and observed in 1923,

Woolf lashes out at the medical discourse through Septimus ' decline and suicide ; his doctors make snap judgments about his condition, talk to him mainly through his wife and dismiss his urgent confessions before he can make them.

He was succeeded as Lord Chief Justice by Lord Woolf in 2000, who had likewise succeeded him in 1996 as Master of the Rolls.

His housemaster told him that this was not a suitable career-choice for him because he had a stutter, but this only made Woolf more determined in his vocation.

Eliot and Virginia Woolf were kind about him.

" Bentley Boy " Woolf Barnato was the only driver to win each of the three times he entered, giving him the highest victory percentage.

Through Jones and the Apostles he was associated with the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf describing him to Ottoline Morrell as " pure Cambridge: clean as a breadknife, and as sharp ".

Among his most prominent pieces are the operas Postcard from Morocco, Miss Havisham's Fire, and The Masque of Angels, as well as the song cycles Six Elizabethan Songs and From the Diary of Virginia Woolf ; the latter earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975.

Idle rants about the uselessness of television critics for a while, but Henry Woolf informs him that his satirical invective has won him a rave review.

After being approached in Amsterdam by a man asking him to assassinate American businessman Alexander Woolf, Lang attempts to warn the intended victim at his Belgravia flat, finding Woolf gone and instead clashing with ( and incapacitating ) a mercenary, then encountering Woolf's daughter Sarah.

Intrigued by the sudden interest of two government agencies, Lang attempts to track down the man who approached him in Amsterdam, unexpectedly finding him in London, and even more unexpectedly discovering that the man is Alexander Woolf himself.

In 1980 he won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey as best overall jockey and that same year his peers voted him the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award.

Over 10, 000 people wrote tributes to Hammond, including: Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Woolf Barnato whose father ( Barney Barnato ) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips who was condemned to death with him, the Guggenheims who employed him at a fabulous salary, former President Taft who offered him an ambassador position, and President Calvin Coolidge who consulted with him on the coal situation.