“Leonard and Virginia married in August 1912. Virginia was 30. Soon after her marriage she suVered another breakdown and her mental health declined sporadically over the following year, culminating in a suicide attempt in September 1913. They were advised against… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: ‘It isn’t, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful – though of course that is a large reason… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“By the close of the nineteenth century her studies with her father were being supplemented by tuition in the classics from Dr Warr of… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington’s… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“Modernism and feminism are two broad axes on which Woolf criticism turns, and there are many other categories that reflect the range of positions… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I like looking at a book and asking myself, 'How do I replicate that experience I just had as a reader?' — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
“The 1990s to the present: feminism, historicism, postcolonialism, ethics There has never been a better time to study Virginia Woolf. Woolf studies, in the… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
We just really wanted Hit-Girl to be a character who, in a sense, simply happens to be an 11-year-old girl, in the same way… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I think when you really adore something, and you've grown up with it, you almost don't want to be part of it. I want… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual language of film. — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
I've always loved science fiction, fantasy, manga, comic books; so I guess, to some degree, those things influence my personal idea of what looks… — Jane Goldman Copy Share Image
