Planned Virginia Woolf statue challenged over ‘insensitivity’

Memorial of the novelist would be by the Thames, which would evoke her suicide by drowningConcerns have been raised about a planned statue of Virginia Woolf overlooking the Thames, which has been labelled “insensitive” because of the way she killed herself.The figure of the author, designed by sculptor Laury Dizengremel, will be positioned sitting on a park bench overlooking the river on Richmond riverside, in south-west London, where she lived for about a decade from 1914. Continue