Alejandra: good morning were going to talk to you about Virginia Woolf’s life and works.

This is an English novelist, critic, and essayist ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of
the middle part of the twentieth century. Her novels can perhaps best be described as impressionistic,
a literary style which attempts to inspire impressions rather than recreating reality.
Alejandra:

The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way...

Motifs of emptiness and absence haunt the novel and establish its elegiac (heartrending) feel. Jacob
is described to us, but in such indirect terms that it would seem better to view him as an amalgam or
combination of the different perceptions of the characters and narrator. He does not exist as a
concrete reality, but rather as a collection of memories and sensations.

The novel is a departure from Woolf's earlier two novels, The Voyage Out and Night and Day, which
are more conventional in form and narration... (the work is seen as an important modernist text).
Alejandra:

In Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, Woolf discovered a new literary form capable of expressing the
new realities of postwar England.

She wanted to show characters in flux, rather than static, characters who think and emote as they
move through space, who react to their surroundings in ways that mirrored actual human experience.

As Huxley's historical context, Virginia suffered also the consequences of de First World War ...
England was devasteting, politically it was chaotic, Women who had flooded the workforce to replace
the men who had gone to war, were demanding equal rights.

Woolf delves into the consciousness of Clarissa Dalloway, a woman who exists largely in the
domestic sphere, to ensure that readers take her character seriously, rather than simply dismiss her
as a vain and uneducated upper-class wife.

Mrs. Dalloway also portrays the shifting political atmosphere.

Also, Woolf’s struggles with mental illness gave her an opportunity to witness firsthand how
insensitive medical professionals could be, and she critiques their tactlessness in Mrs. Dalloway.

It's very interesting.

This book, which focuses on commonplace tasks, such as shopping, throwing a party, and eating
dinner, showed that no act was too small or too ordinary for a writer’s attention.
Alejandra:
The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf. It is considered her most experimental work, and
consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters. The soliloquies that span the characters'
lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in
a day from sunrise to sunset.

Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community.

In a 2015 poll conducted by BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written.