A WORD ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 768.

THINKING AHEAD

KEW GARDENS

They say love is what makes the world go round. They say love is a flower that blooms in our hearts at least once in a lifetime. What is love to you? What does it embody, in your opinion?

Virginia Woolf (1882 – 1941) is a highly regarded essayist, novelist, critic, short story writer, diarist, and biographer, once the member of the well-known Bloomsbury Group. One of the most prominent literary figures of the twentieth century, Woolf is chiefly renowned as an innovative novelist, and in particular for her contribution to the development of the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique.

Her first published works began appearing anonymously in 1904 in the Guardian. Journalism occupied much of her time and thought between 1904 and 1909. Her fiction reveals an ongoing concern with the exploration of character and incident. Her famous works, including The Voyage Out (1915), Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), represent the author's distinctive narrative style, rejecting the boundaries of the traditional narrative form.