Planned Virginia Woolf statue challenged as insensitive

Memorial to novelist would be by Thames, which would evoke her suicide by drowning

Concerns have been raised about a planned statue of Virginia Woolf overlooking the Thames, which has been called insensitive because of the way she killed herself.

The memorial the author, designed by Laury Dizengremel, would be positioned on a park bench overlooking the river on Richmond riverside in south-west London, where she lived for about a decade from 1914.