Virginia Woolf
1882 – 1941 English novelist, essayist
A pioneer of the modernist novel and of feminist criticism.
- Religion
- An atheist who dismissed organized religion and found meaning in art and consciousness.
- Affiliations
- A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, a circle of writers and artists.
Woolf developed the stream-of-consciousness style in novels like Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, following the flow of inner life. Her essay A Room of One's Own became a landmark of feminist thought. She was a leading light of literary modernism.