Woolf, Virginia /wʊlf/ BrE AmE
(1882–1941) a British writer and ↑ critic who was an important member of the ↑ Bloomsbury Group and is admired by ↑ feminist s . Her novels, such as To the Lighthouse and The Waves , use the style called ↑ stream of consciousness , and she is regarded as one of the most important English writers of the 20th century.