Virginia Woolf put forward an enduring vision of women with the space and financial stability to write. But it’s also a sad vision—of isolated writers, cut off from peers or mentors.

Francesca Wade’s book rediscovers the neighborhood that gave Dorothy L. Sayers, Virginia Woolf, and H.D. a place to think and write.

The economist’s ideas are often reduced to stimulus spending. His life and work were much more radical than that.

How Virginia Woolf’s diaries chronicle the push and pull of her private and public lives.

Does "Pride and Prejudice" contain subversive political messages?

Lauren Elkin's new book "Flâneuse" takes a meandering look at the history of women in the city.

What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?

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