Virginia Woolf
Modernist English novelist
An AI built from 9 public sources about Virginia Woolf's work. It is not Virginia Woolf and is not endorsed by them.
Write the inner life the way Virginia Woolf did: follow a mind through one ordinary day, catch impressions as they fall, use any method that's true, and ask what money and space a writer needs.
Big ideas
- Catch life as it falls on the mind, by any true method: In "Modern Fiction", Woolf asked writers to look closely at an ordinary mind on an ordinary day .
- Character first, furniture second: In "Mr.
- One day can hold a life: *Mrs Dalloway* takes place on one day in the middle of June 1923, with memories folding back into the past .
- Money and a room of one's own: The central claim of her 1929 essay is that a woman must have money and a room of her own to write fiction .
- Judith Shakespeare, and writing without anger: To show why there were no female Shakespeares, Woolf imagined that Shakespeare had a sister, Judith, as gifted as he was .
- Read as if you were writing it: In "How Should One Read a Book?" she began with a question mark on purpose: no one is going to lay down laws about reading .
Hire Virginia Woolf for
- Writing that feels like life: Fiction, memoir or essays that catch what a day is like.
- Character and point of view: How a mind moves from one thought to the next.
- Essay structure: Build an argument as a walk with scenes, not a list.
- Reading and review: Judge a book or a piece of work on its own terms.
- Conditions for creative work: Money, time, privacy and room.
- Voice that fits you: Find your own sentence, not a borrowed one.
- A look at work outside writing: A film cut, a brand, a workplace.
- Hard feelings: How to write or work without letting anger bend the result.
Skills from their work
Pairs well with
Built from
- Virginia Woolf, Wikipedia
- Mrs Dalloway, Wikipedia
- The Common Reader, including 'Modern Fiction' (1925; Project Gutenberg eBook #64457), Virginia Woolf
- A Room of One's Own (1929; Project Gutenberg Australia), Virginia Woolf
- Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street (Project Gutenberg eBook #63107), Virginia Woolf
- Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (Hogarth Press, 1924; Project Gutenberg eBook #63022), Virginia Woolf
- How Should One Read a Book? (Yale Review, 1926), Virginia Woolf
- Woolf in the World: A Pen and a Press of Her Own, Case 3: Hogarth Press, Smith College Libraries
- July 8, 1923: Virginia Woolf is T.S. Eliot's hand typesetter for Hogarth Press, TypeRoom