'Written large in her works'

 

“Fiction is like a spider’s web attached -- ever soslightly perhaps but still attached -- to life at all four corners.”  – Virginia Woolf  Born in England in January of 1882, Woolf has often been credited with developing the  “streamof consciousness” writing genre', alongside her contemporaries James Joyce and JosephConrad.  Both a feminist and a modernist, her novels often ignoredtraditional plots to follow the inner lives and musings of her characters.     Woolf's writing has attracted many admirers and perhaps an equal number of haters.  Inher own time (she died in 1941), her writing was banned by some countries, including Adolf Hitler's Germany.    Her most well known works are To The Lighthouse and A Room of One’s Own. 
A great essayist, too, she once noted “A good essay must have this permanent quality aboutit; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts usin not out.”                                    But it was fiction writing whereWoolf made her lasting mark and for which she is still studied today.  She said she found herself intrigued by anddrawn into writing fiction because of how it so keenly wove together thoughtsand reality.    “Every secret of a writer’s soul,every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in hisworks.”