In popular culture

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1962 play by Edward Albee. It examines the structure of the marriage of an American middle-aged academic couple, Martha and George. Mike Nichols directed a film version in 1966, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Taylor won the 1966 Academy Award for Best Actress for the role.

2. Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf, a 1978 TV play, references the title of the Edward Albee play and features an English literature teacher who has a poster of her. It was written by Alan Bennett and directed by Stephen Frears.

3. The artwork The Dinner Party (1979) features a place setting for Woolf.[374]

4. The 1996 album Poetic Justice, by British musician Steve Harley, contains a tribute to Woolf, specifically her most adventurous novel, in its closing track: "Riding the Waves (for Virginia Woolf)".[citation needed]

5. Michael Cunningham's 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours focused on three generations of women affected by Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway. In 2002, a film version of the novel was released starring Nicole Kidman as Woolf.

6. Susan Sellers' novel Vanessa and Virginia (2008) explores the close sibling relationship between Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell. It was adapted for the stage by Elizabeth Wright in 2010 and first performed by Moving Stories Theatre Company.

7. Priya Parmar's 2014 novel Vanessa and Her Sister also examined the Stephen sisters' relationship during the early years of their association with what became known as the Bloomsbury Group.[375]

8. An exhibition on Virginia Woolf was held at the National Portrait Gallery from July to October 2014.[376]

9. In the 2014 novel The House at the End of Hope Street,[377] Woolf is featured as one of the women who has lived in the titular house.

10. Virginia is portrayed by both Lydia Leonard and Catherine McCormack in the BBC's three-part drama series Life in Squares (2015).[378]

11. On 25 January 2018, Google showed a doodle celebrating her 136th birthday.[379]

12. In many Barnes & Noble stores, Woolf is featured in Gary Kelly's Author Mural Panels, an imprint of the Barnes & Noble Author brand[380] that also features other notable authors like Hurston, Tagore, and Kafka.

Adaptation

A number of Virginia Woolf's works have been adapted for the screen, and her play Freshwater (1935)[202] is the basis for a 1994 chamber opera, Freshwater, by Andy Vores. The final segment of the 2018 Anthology film London Unplugged is adapted from her short story Kew Gardens.