splendors of the great and the miseries of the poor (Woolf, The Moment and Other Essays 197).
Virginia Woolf is noted for her novels, which featured a new type of literary style based on psychology and deemed "stream-of-consciousness," but she is also known for her criticism and essays on literary subjects. The act writing was an important human action for her, and she explored the meaning of this communicative process especially in terms of gender, in terms of the expression of women writers and the problems they encountered in finding their fictional voice. Woolf commented on the oppression and repression of women writers in her time and in doing so, she says much about the relations between men and women in society--specifically about the need for women to achieve freedom so they feel they can express themselves through writing in the same way men do. In her book A Room of One's Own, Woolf makes it clear that there is a close relationship between the position of women in society and their ability to express thems
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