Planned Virginia Woolf Monument Overlooking the Thames River Criticized as Insensitive

A planned monument to Virginia Woolf overlooking the Thames River is under fire for its controversial placement, as the celebrated author committed suicide by drowning. The life-size likeness of Woolf designed by Laury Dizengremel would be positioned on a park bench in southwest London, where she lived with her husband, the writer Leonard Woolf, for a decade starting in 1914. The Richmond council’s environment, sustainability, culture, and sports committee approved the proposal last Thursd