Woolf, Virginia /wʊlf/ 
 (1882–1941) a British writer and 
critic who was an important member of the 
Bloomsbury Group and is admired by 
feminists. 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. 
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