Woolf, Virginia

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century English author who experimented with stream-of-consciousness narrative technique. Her works include the novel To The Lighthouse and the essay “A Room of One's Own.”

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Example Sentences

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf’s first masterpiece pioneered stream-of-consciousness storytelling to describe a day in the life of a London society hostess and the breakdown of a World War I veteran.

From Slate • May 5, 2016

Their nonsense song — “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf” — has become a kind of lifesaving lullaby.

From Chicago Tribune • Dec. 16, 2010