Both were born into privilege and steeped in empire. Britain’s outstanding black women deserve to be honoured too
The prospect of a lifesize statue of Virginia Woolf in the capital is moving closer, with a fundraising event this week that campaigners hope will help reach their £50,000 target.
It makes perfect sense that Virginia Woolf should be honoured: she was perhaps the best known of the modernist writers in the early part of the 20th century, an innovator of stream-of-consciousness writing. She is recognised for her classic novels including Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, and brilliant feminist essays such as A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas.
