Psychological characteristic of women in the novel of Mrs. Dalloway

Pages:195-196
Ritu Saharan and Ritu Sardana (Department of English, Sai Nath University, Ranchi and Assistant Professor, D.N. College, Hisar, Haryana)

Virginia Wolf is one of the most prominent literary figurers of twentieth century and is widely admired for her technical innovations in the novel, most notably her development of stream-of-consciousness narrative. She is best known for developing the ‘stream of consciousness’ method of writing in which the reader follows the characters’ internal thoughts as the story unfolds. Virginia Woolf published roughly 300 notices, reviews, and critical essays (this does not include biographical essays) in a wide variety of magazines, newspapers, and journals. Woolf’s first review, of William Dean Howells’s The Son of Royal Langbrith, was published in the women’s supplement to the Guardian, a clerical weekly, 14 December 1904, under editor Margaret Lyttleton. The Guardian would be a steady source of income until 1909. Shortly after this debut she placed a review in Academy and Literature, but she would only write four essays for them in her lifetime.