Woolf

American  

[woolf] / wʊlf /

noun

1. Virginia Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882–1941, English novelist, essayist, and critic.

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Woolf British  

/ wʊlf /

noun

1. Leonard Sidney. 1880–1969, English publisher and political writer

2. his wife, Virginia . 1882–1941, English novelist and critic. Her novels, which include Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941), employ such techniques as the interior monologue and stream of consciousness

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Example Sentences

Lovers of Virginia Woolf's novels have expressed anger about a development which will block a sea view from her former holiday home.

From BBC

The psychological complexity she achieved paved the way for such future writers as Virginia Woolf, George Eliot and James Joyce.

From Los Angeles Times

Her fiction, so alive to sensory experience and the interior struggles of the mind and heart, helped extend the literary tradition of Virginia Woolf, a modernist whom Welty deeply admired.

From The Wall Street Journal

It’s the breath marks of Emily Dickinson, the stream of consciousness of Virginia Woolf, the head-clogging maximalism of David Foster Wallace, the self-aggrandizing asides of Joel Stein.

From The Wall Street Journal

Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf and their contemporaries produced wildly different books with one thing in common: the belief that writers needed to break with the old.

From The Wall Street Journal