Virginia Woolf

The modernist of the flowing mind, whose novels and essays rebuilt English prose from the inside.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1882 – 1941

language

English

region

London and Sussex, England

notable works

Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own

Core Principles & Analysis

• She and Leonard Woolf ran the Hogarth Press, publishing her own and Eliot's work.
• A Room of One's Own (1929) argued money and a room as the material basis of women's writing.
• Her diary and essays are as studied as the novels.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Virginia Woolf