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Adeline Virginia Woolf (25 January 1882- 28 March 1941) was a renown and iconic figure who possessed extroverted dignity and supreme dexterity. Virginia Woolf’s oeuvre includes novels, short stories, letters, diaries, autobiographical sketches, reviews, essays and what not. Most of the elements that she employed in her work prove her as a major feminist theorist. She explored the gendered relationship between the public and private sphere with great acuity. Virginia Woolf’s novels portray a lot of distressed women who feel sad, alone and subjugated in this male-dominated society. Patriarchal society forces them to become loyal, devoted, meek, and submissive. Virginia Woolf wants that women must denounce these so called patriarchal values. …show more content…

She always makes her different in her thoughts in writing literature of modern crises. Only she among the contemporary authors provides the modern readers of literature with problems regarding the modern people. What she has focused on in her pieces of literary writings is really unique to the people who try to go through literatures of the modern times and to see in them the reflection of modern crises. Virginia Woolf becomes successful in bringing to the readers the modern restlessness, and in particular generalizing before the eyes of the people the condition of women of her time. This becomes vivid through the reading of her works of literature: A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and To the Lighthouse. We come to be in touch with the reality of what the condition of women in her time was. 1. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Basic Science & Language, Sylhet Agricultural University, Sylhet. 2. Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Sylhet International University & Ph.D. (Fellow), Jahangirnagar University. 3. Professor, Dept. of Basic Science & Language, Sylhet Agricultural University,

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