Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, and publisher, and one of the central figures of literary modernism. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, she helped reshape the modern novel through innovative narrative techniques-particularly interior monologue and stream of consciousness-used to portray consciousness, memory, and the passage of time. Her major works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and The Waves (1931), alongside influential essays such as A Room of One's Own (1929). With her husband Leonard Woolf she also co-founded the Hogarth Press, which published her writing and that of other significant twentieth-century authors.
