Virginia Woolf As/In/And Children’s Literature: an Overview
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This article examines a lesser-known aspect of Virginia Woolf’s literary work: her engagement with children’s literature and culture. Focusing on Woolf’s modernist contributions to the genre, we introduce two short stories—The Widow and the Parrot (1988) and Nurse Lugton’s Curtain (1991)—originally written for her nephews and later published as picturebooks for a broader audience. Beyond these works, we present artistic representations of Woolf in Kyo Maclear and Isabelle Arsenault’s picturebook Virginia Wolf (2012), Michèle Gazier and Bernard Ciccolini’s graphic novel Virginia Woolf (2011), and Zena Alkayat and Nina Cosford’s Virginia Woolf: An Illustrated Biography (2015). We also consider the renewed relevance of Woolf’s Flush (1933), a biographical narrative recently reissued in illustrated form. This article offers an overview of selected works that highlight Woolf’s complex relationship with children’s literature.
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