Remarkable mind
Virginia Woolf
English novelist, essayist and publisher · 1882–1941
Virginia Woolf was a major modernist writer whose fiction experimented with time, memory and the flow of consciousness. Her essays also examined literature, artistic freedom and the material conditions that shape women’s ability to write.
Selected works and contributions
- Mrs Dalloway
- To the Lighthouse
- Orlando
- A Room of One’s Own
Ideas to explore
- Consciousness
- Time
- Identity
- Creative freedom
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