The Leatherface Prevention society

Virginia Woolf, best known for popularizing stream-of-consciousness as a narrative device, is easily one of the most important writers of the 20th century modernist movement. Although Woolf ultimately lost her battle with manic depression and cut her own life short at the age of 59, her essays and novels are still celebrated today for their experimental styles and transgressive themes. If you've never read Woolf before (or haven't read her since your Intro to Lit. class a few decades ago), I highly recommend Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own. Her novel about a day in the life of a high society, party-planning housewife and her extended essay about how patriarchal social constructs stifle female creative and intellectual expression contain some overlapping themes, but in my opinion, both are quintessential to understanding Woolf as a literary icon who also happened to be a bipolar...