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Virginia Woolf

1882 – 1941 · United Kingdom · Literature

Stream of consciousness and A Room of One's Own.

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  • James Joyce

    1882 – 1941 · Literature

    Woolf read Ulysses in manuscript with hostile attention and wrote past it.

  • Sei Shōnagon

    966 – 1017 · Literature

    The Pillow Book's essayistic interior voice anticipates modernist consciousness.

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  • Margaret Atwood

    1939 · Literature

    A Room of One's Own frames Atwood's account of women's authorship.

  • Olga Tokarczuk

    1962 · Literature

    The constellation novel's mobile consciousness descends from Woolf.

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