Virginia Woolf (1882- 1941) is recognized as one of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known as the author of Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927), she was also a prolific writer of essays, diaries, letters and biographies. Both in style and subject matter, Woolf 's work captures the fastchanging world in which she was working, from transformation in gender roles, sexuality and class to technologies such as cars, airplanes and cinema. Influenced by seminal writers and artists of the period such as Marcel Proust, Igor Stravinsky and the post-impression