Virginia Woolf

noun

English author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1882-1941)

• Syn: ↑Woolf, ↑Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf

• Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author

• Member Holonyms: ↑Bloomsbury Group

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Virginia Woolf [Virginia Woolf]

(1882–1941) an English writer of novels. She is well known for the ↑experimental style of many of her books. She was one of the first writers to use the ‘stream of consciousness’, a way of describing a person’s thoughts and feelings as a flow of ideas as the person would have experienced them, without using the usual methods of description. She was a member of the ↑Bloomsbury Group and is considered an important early writer about ↑feminism (= the idea that women should have the same rights and opportunities as men). Her best-known novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction. Virginia Woolf