Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is the author and speaker of "Craftsmanship." She is best known for her novels in which she represents female characters with a stream-of-consciousness style. Woolf is interested in the experiences of women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but she is particularly interested in the experience of women writers. Her famous essay, "A Room of One's Own," argues that female artists need space and time to create without interruption. Readers can see echoes of this argument in "Craftsmanship," as Woolf ruminates on the importance of words and how various writers use them to create famous texts. She is profoundly interested in the mind, evidenced by her pioneering of the stream-of-consciousness style, and that interest also underlies "Craftsmanship" as she imagines that words develop their significance because of the way the mind processes them. Woolf is known for being a contemplative, ironic, and...