How Virginia Woolf Embodied Modernism on Her Literary Works

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Discuss one work or one author from this course that you believe had the most significant influence on British literary history. Please be sure to maintain third person perspective.
Virginia Woolf and modernism
Prior to the early 20th century, writers mainly used the third person omniscient voice, but various artists and writers explored how the subconscious influences the characters rather than simply how the events unfolded. The modernist approach departs from the classical and traditional forms and modifies traditional beliefs and Woolf focused on feminist themes, imagination and creation, which had not been broadly explored in British literature (Fothergill
1). Virginia Woolf embodied modernism in A Room of One's Own and The Mark on the Wall by experimenting on new stylistic approaches while challenging the established conventions on literary forms and the role of women in society.
Besides experimenting on her writing style, Woolf addressed the place of women in a changing modern world even as this had not received much attention in popular literary works. A Room of One's Own, emphasized the importance of women independence and questioned the traditional role of women. Furthermore, Woolf explored female literary tradition in the story where female imagination where women ought to have their own rooms so they can write and even help achieve independence. Woolf partly influenced to write the novel as she was denied the chance to pursue public school and university education like her brothers and male friends, and she critiqued the way the British society was established to limit the voice of women (Fothergill 2).
In A Room of One's Own Woolf took a more materialist stance on cultural production than her subsequent literary work. The position of women in English society had been low and largely ignored in literary work and they needed financial independence (Fothergill 3). Additionally, the novel is written as though Woolf was addressing he readers directly and fictionalizes to draw attention to the plight of women and the importance of female language. For instance, she depicts Judith Shakespeare a sister to William “Let me imagine, since facts are so hard to come by, what would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say” (Woolf 39).
In The Mark on the Wall, Woolf focuses on a mark on the wall, first indicating it could be an indentation made by a nail, but further looks keenly and observes it could be discoloration or a protrusion. Woolf focused on a stream of...