The Girl Prince: Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax by Danell Jones Hurst, 376 pages, £19.99
This book will surprise even those familiar with the Dreadnought Hoax. The nub of the matter, Danell Jones reminds us, is that “in 1910 Virginia Woolf put on a blackface Navy, and Virginia was far from the only prankster.
