Virginia Woolf was born in London in 1882.

She was a writer who was

concerned with capturing in words the pain, beauty and horror of the
modern age. His father, Leslie Stephen was an eminent Victorian man and
author and his mother, a well-known model. Woolf and his sister were not
even allowed to go to Cambridge like their brothers, but they had to steal
an education from their father's library. After his mother's death when he
was only thirteen years old, Woolf had the first of a series of mental
breakdowns partly caused by the sexual abuse suffered by his half-brother.
Her father's death produced another period of depression and the
beginning of another period of mental instability caused by the aftermath
of World War II Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse in Sussex.
Despite her illness, she became a journalist, a writer and the central figure
of the Bloomsbury Group. This included his sister Vanessa Bell and a
journalist Leonard Woolf who married Virginia. She and Leonard
purchased a hand-printed printing press, named it "The Hogarth Press" and
produced the first complete English edition of Freud's works. Virginia
Woolf wrote four of her famous works: "Mrs. Dalloway", "To the
Lighthouse", "Night and Day" and the essay "A Room of One's Own".
Woolf has had some lesbian relationships in her life, and she wrote a queer
text, "Orlando," a portrait of her lover, described as a nobleman who
becomes a woman. Woolf wanted to elevate the status of women in his
society. She was a feminist writer, in fact, for example, Mrs. Dalloway
describes a relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Sally Seton. Set on
a single day in June, it follows the protagonist through a very small area of
London. The protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, is characterized by opposite
feelings: her need for freedom and independence and her class
consciousness. She prefers short meaningful time units: one in day in Mrs.
Dalloway, two day in To the Lighthouse. She made a difference between
time of the clock: measurable time and the time of the mind unmeasurable
time. Like Joyce, Virginia Woolf uses the stream of consciousness
technique, a style of prose that describes the chaotic flow of thoughts. In
the technique of the stream of consciousness, the action of the plot moves
back and there is a dramatic monologue and free association. Unlike Joyce
who presents the thoughts of the characters in an inconsistent way,
Virginia Woolf never lets her character's thoughts flow out of control and
maintains the logical and ungrammatical organization. Woolf has tried all
his life to make sure that language does a better job of defining who we
really are, with all our vulnerabilities and bodily sensations. She was
always deep, but she was never afraid of what others called "trivial." The
generation before his, the Victorians, wrote novels focused on: city scenes,
weddings, wills. Woolf envisioned a new form of expression centered
instead on self-knowledge. Books like Woolf's, not very sarcastic, are not
involved in adventurous plots. It gives us the opportunity to notice the
tremors we normally miss and to better appreciate our headaches and
fascinating fluid sexualities.
Moment of being: rare moments of character insights during which they
can see the reality behind or appearances.
Epiphanies: is the moment when a gesture or banal situation leads the
character to a sudden self-realization on himself or on the reality that
surrounds him.

Mrs Dalloway
describes a relationship between Clarissa Dalloway and Sally Seton. Set on
a single day in June, in London. The protagonist, Clarissa Dalloway, is
characterized by opposite feelings: her need for freedom and
independence and her class consciousness. She is the wife of a
conservative MP, Richard Dalloway, who has conventional views on
political and women’s rights. In Mrs. Dalloway, six lives are shown during
one day in the Bond Street area of London, like the one day in the life of
Dublin in Joyce’s Ulysses. Virginia Woolf rejects the traditional eventful
plot; all her attention is turned to describing the workings of her
character’s minds and to do so she makes great use of the interior
monologue. Her sentences are often broken by dashes and semicolons, to
reproduce the incessant and irregular flux of though as it builds up in the
mind.