Chapter 1 Life 1
1882-1909 3
The 1910s 11
The 1920s 17
1930-1941 21
Chapter 2 Contexts 25
Biographies 27
Bloomsbury 32
Wider historical and political contexts 33
Modern and contemporary cultural contexts 34
Chapter 3 Works 37
Woolf's fiction 38
Woolf's nonfiction 96
Other essays 112
Chapter 4 Critical reception 123
Introductory reading 125
Critical reception 127
Contemporary reviews and the 1940s：innovation,experimentalism,impressionism 127
The 1950s and 1960s：phillosophy psychology,myth 129
The 1970s and 1980s：feminism,androgyny,modernism,aesthetics 130
The 1980s：feminism,postmodernism,sexual/textual politics 132
The 1990s to the present：feminism,historicism,postcolonialism,ethics 134
Notes 137
Guide to further reading 140
Index 145