Woolf herself contributes greatly to shaping the new woman’s identity, as she sets out to destroy the stereotype of that time which suggested that only men can be important writers. Woolf in this novel clearly juxtaposes the two images of women, namely the Victorian ideal and the New Woman. The ideas of women, their role and identity become especially obvious in her novel To the Lighthouse. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse as surrogates for her own parents, Leslie and Julia Stephen.īeing a female writer in a patriarchal society, Woolf raises issues on gender and gender roles, and challenges the role of the Victorian woman, both in her novels as well as in her essays. To the Lighthouse is Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, she uses the characters of Mr. Critics tend to agree that Woolf’s finest novel is To the Lighthouse (1927), which is certainly one of the central works of the modern imagination. Virginia Woolf is one of the most famous writers of the modernist era, she was not merely a writer, at the same time she was a biographer, an essayist and also a feminist.
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