Writers who died before 1942 have now entered the pubic domain, and Woolf, of course, is among them. Links to a number of stories about that are 
below, along with a brief rumination about whether Virginia would have sung along with Beatles songs (#30) and much, much more.
- As copyright ends, we can take the literary plunge, The Canberra Times
… not simply because of greedy publishers or idle writers sleeping on money piles, but because some readers recognise literature’s unique value, and authors deserve to live as they create it. ”What a lark!” as Virginia Woolf put it. .. - Woolf’s works enter public domain, Managing Intellectual Property (subscription)
For those countries where rights holders enjoy protection for 70 years after the artist’s death – among them EU member states and Australia – 2012 will see works come into the public domain by British novelist Virginia Woolf, French essayist Louis …. - In and out of copyright, Spectator.co.uk (blog)
As for who’s actually just entered the public domain — well, besides Joyce, the big name is probably Virginia Woolf; others include Hugh Walpole, Tagore, and PC Wren, the author of Beau Geste. (The Public Domain Day site is a good place to start … - James Joyce enters the Public Domain, but the auteurs of 1955 must wait, The Verge
This year marks the entrance of works from some famous authors, including James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, but there could have been more. The maximum length of a copyright used to be 56 years, but in 1978 a change in the law extended the protection of … - Joyce copyright lifted from tomorrow, thejournal.ie
He isn’t the only author whose work will enter the public domain tomorrow – joining James Joyce this year are authors Virginia Woolf, Henri Bergson, Raffaello Bertieri, Alter Kacyzne, Jelly Roll Morton, Hugh Walpole and Robert Delanay, amongst others. … - James Joyce Has Gone Public! The Public Domain Class of 2012, New York Observer
Other writers who died 70 years ago with works now in the public domain include Virginia Woolf, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Bergson. It doesn’t mean you can record and sell your own audiobook of To the Lighthouse though — you have to wait 95 years for … - Spotlight – The power of silence and solitude, Valley Courier
Virginia Woolf believed that allowing time to be alone was a great gift we give to ourselves. She said, “In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details.” There was a time in my life when the word loneliness was a … - New York Times Book Critic Michiko Kakutani Has Started a Fake Twitter War, The Atlantic Wire
Today in publishing and literature: Michiko Kakutani engages her Twitter doppelganger, the public domain welcomes James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, and another scary potential side effect of digital publishing. It seems not everyone is enjoying the work … - Vita Sackville-West’s beloved Knole House could be inherited by a woman, Telegraph.co.uk
Vita Sackville-West, the author, gardener and lover of Virginia Woolf, was so devastated that the rules of male primogeniture prevented her from inheriting Knole House that it affected her whole life. The current guardian of the property … - There is a lot to learn from re-reading books, Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections, EM Forster’s Howards End, Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse – all wonderful works of literature. All books that I enjoyed the first time. And all books that I have absolutely no desire to read ever again. - ‘Tourist’ in Hollywood, TheChronicleHerald.ca
They made films together — larger and smaller, scrappy and polished — although it was Swinton’s role as the swashbuckling, gender-changing title character in Sally Potter’s Orlando (1992), based on the Virginia Woolf novel, that brought her to … - The Story of Swimming, The Australian Eye
She goes back to Byron’s favourite spot near Grantchester, where later Rupert Brooke and Virginia Woolf would swim naked on the day before the First World War began, to find it barricaded off. Stubbornly intent on completing her pilgrimage, … - Lamb’s new year’s resolution: Aim low in 2012, In-Forum
Virginia Woolf sure sounds like a cool comic name, kind of like the sexy mother to wild child Megan Fox. <•> Learn exactly who Pippa Middleton is, what she does and why I should care. <•> Figure out a way to let Pippa Middleton know who I am and why … - Demi Moore heads back to the big screen post-Ashton Kutcher split: All the …, Entertainment Weekly
… and then went on to play Frida Kahlo in Frida, or Nicole Kidman, who switched gears from courtesan in Moulin Rouge to winning an Oscar for portraying Virginia Woolf in The Hours), could Lovelace turn out to be exactly the right move for Moore? … - University’s innovative new season, West Sussex County Times
Through a series of snapshots exploring embodied memory, moments twisted by time, Time Piece jumps between a Yorkshire childhood, a chance meeting between Virginia Woolf and a cobbler and a crumbling lighthouse. Thanatos (Death) and Eros (Love) share … - Interview: Michael Craft, Author of The MacGuffin, Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Others, in no particular order: Virginia Woolf for any of her novels, but particularly Mrs. Dalloway; Richard Yates for his Revolutionary Road; Flannery O’Connor for her short stories, particularly “A Good Man Is Hard to Find. … - New Year’s Resolution: Summer School At Oxford U., Forbes
Choose from a menu of more than 60 subjects: Virginia Woolf and her Circle; Castles in Britain; Anglo-American Relations and the Making of Modern Britain. The Celts in Britain; Tudor London; The Beatles, Popular Music and Sixties Britain. … - 12 for 2012: A dozen things you can do to make your life more meaningful, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Make it American classics month by reading a famous book whose story you know but have never actually read — something by Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Willa Cather, James Baldwin, F. Scott Fitzgerald or another writer of your … - Things to do Jan 2. TODAYonline
Umberto Eco’s birthday is on Jan 5, Haruki Murakami’s is on Jan 12, and Virginia Woolf’s is on Jan 15. [stet] To celebrate these author’s hatch days, BooksActually is offering a 20 per cent discount on their titles for the whole of this month. … - Modern Reliquaries, Chronogram
… Lincoln and Eleanor Roosevelt to men of science Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin; from women of letters Emily Dickinson, Louisa May Alcott and Virginia Woolf to maverick performers Martha Graham, Elvis Presley, Marian Anderson and Annie Oakley. … - Tulsans make resolutions for 2012, Tulsa World
Appreciate what Virginia Woolf called the exquisite moments of daily life. Learn from my cat to play more and take more naps. Drink more champagne.” “To read a book before bed five nights a week, to go to concerts, art galleries, and theater more often … - Talking Books: Uzma Aslam Khan, DAWN.com
For keeping me company through some of the saddest, scariest years of my life,Virginia Woolf, or Fyodor Dostoyevsky. What is the one book you read because you thought it would make you appear smarter? What is the one book you started reading but could … - Book Review: The Literary Ladies’ Guide to the Writing Life by Nava Atlas, Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Virginia Woolf – Orlando, Mrs. Dalloway, A Room of One’s Own The book is not divided into twelve chapters, focusing on each author, but rather on topics that concern a writer – becoming a writer, finding your voice, writer’s block, making money, etc. … - The year’s top texts, Telegraph-Journal (registration)
Possessing the heft of Middlemarch and the stylistic subtlety of a Virginia Woolf novel, The Stranger’s Child comprehends a century of political and literary change in England. The Stranger’s Child suggests that what happens to middle-class and … - Virginia Woolf’s Example of Creative Non-Violent Resistance, OpEdNews
In any event, Koulouris ably contextualizes Virginia Woolf’s life and work in her times. Virginia Woolf was married to Leonard Woolf. Her maiden name was Virginia Stephen. Her father was Leslie Stephen, an agnostic. Virginia Woolf is often regarded as … - The Letters of T.S. Eliot: review, San Francisco Chronicle
In a 1918 diary, the novelist Virginia Woolf, who published Eliot at her Hogarth Press, deemed him a “polished, cultivated, elaborate young American,” but by the following year, Woolf added about a further meeting: “I amused myself by seeing how sharp, … - Celebrating 12 in 2012, Chicago Tribune
“Mrs. Dalloway” (1925) by Virginia Woolf: Woolf’s work is actually much more accessible than advertised. She is commonly classified as a “difficult” author, hence most people approach her novels ready to be hideously bored. … - Theater: The Best Shows of 2011, Huffington Post
Septimus & Clarissa — an illuminating re-imagining of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece Mrs. Dalloway, this is the best adaptation of Woolf I’ve ever seen on stage or screen. (Vita & VIrginia ranks alongside it, though that’s not strictly based on her work … - Teju Cole | The voice of the mind, Livemint
But In my mid-20s I realized that I needed to go back to (George) Orwell, (Ernest) Hemingway, (VS) Naipaul; Virginia Woolf, who’s a wonderful writer of the English sentence. A little bit of Henry James, not in the length of the sentences, … - Losing It, By William Ian Miller, The Independent
Which prompts another stray thought: instead of becoming a legend from another era, Virginia Woolf could easily have lived to sing along
with Beatles songs. That’s hypothesis. Certainly, Miller’s mother, not flying away, displayed amazing grace as he … - Emili Sandé’s doing it her way, Mirror.co.uk
A glance at her tattoos add another insight into Emeli’s taste and inspirations – one of the painter Frida Kahlo, the name of her boyfriend Adam, and a quote from the feminist author Virginia Woolf. “The tattoo of Frida was done about two years ago,” … - Outside the Machine: The Best Classical Performances of 2011, New Yorker (blog)
I was haunted all year by a sentence that I read in Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”: “One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour.” These days you can’t live outside the machine for more than a minute. … - Oscar rewards real-life roles, Omaha World-Herald
Nicole Kidman donned a grotesque fake nose to play writer Virginia Woolf in “The Hours.” Marion Cotillard, a beautiful young French actress, appeared nearly hairless and feeble as aged chanteuse Edith Piaf in “La Vie en Rose. … - Letters to Ukraine – 11, The Day Weekly Digest
The alternative is a kind of slavery and, as Virginia Woolf reminds us, “Hitlers are bred by slaves.” Many of those who seem inherently selfish have, at some level, been complicit in a process towards selfishness. We all make choices in that respect, … - Florence Welch Dons Luxury Chanel Ensemble at Harrods Live Performance (PHOTOS), International Business Times UK
It felt like we were moving into a different romantic era, having previously been inspired by the Pre-Raphelites, I was now thinking about artists like Klimt and Erte, Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury set.” Most of Welch’s tour costumes are reportedly … - The best of LGBT theater 2011, Windy City Times
In March, Court Theatre offered Sarah Ruhl’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, an amazingly imaginative picaresque journey into gender identity. Woolf’s novel not only spans 300 years and several continents, but also has the sexually prolific … - Photographer to ’30s Literary Stars, Forward
The photographer profiled many literary figures, including this shot of Virginia Woolf. By Benjamin Ivry From James Joyce to Virginia Woolf, camera-shy European writers were captured on film in the 1930s by German Jewish photographer Gisèle Freund. … - Understanding Abortion, OpEdNews
While preparing to teach a class on feminist writers (all of them women who deserve not to be tagged “women writers”) I revisited the works of great writers like Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Virginia Woolf, Carolyn Heilbrunn, Tillie Olsen, Audre Lorde, … - Famous and Fashionable: Exploring London’s Bond Street, CheapOair (blog)
The streets have been memorialized in great works of literature, such as Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. One unique feature of Bond Street is the “Allies” statue of Winston Churchil and Franklin D Roosevelt. … - Get real: Meryl Streep channels Margaret Thatcher and Julianne Moore plays …, CultureMap Houston
… Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006), Reese Witherspoon channeled country singer June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005), Charlize Theron was serial killer Aileen Wuornosin in Monster (2003) and Nicole Kidman was Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002). … - Under the Autumn Star” hits Iranian bookshelves, Iran Book News Agency
Hamsun pioneered psychological literature with techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue, as found in material by James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Virginia Woolf. Hamsun first received wide acclaim with his 1890 novel Hunger (Sult)….
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