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1882–1941
Virginia Woolf
Novelist and critic of Bloomsbury who made consciousness a liquid medium. Her books listen for the pulse under talk.
Refined interior time and a feminist modernism of perception, room, and wave.
Primary works
Novel · 1925
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Clarissa prepares a party while Septimus, a shell-shocked veteran, walks the same London. One June day holds two kinds of survival.
Stream of consciousness
Novel · 1927
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A family holiday, a death-shaped middle, and a later return. The lighthouse is delayed, then reached, and art tries to hold what time dissolves.
Modernist novel