Virginia Woolf, a female writer of independence and daring

Virginia Woolf, A Biography by Quentin Bell
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Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882 - 1941) was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

Woolf, says Wikipedia, is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she experimented with stream-of-consciousness writing. She addressed the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. Woolf's reputation declined sharply after World War II, but her eminence was re-established with the surge of Feminist criticism in the 1970s.