1. V.Woolf received a Victorian education. She grew up in a literary and intellectual atmosphere receiving also private Greek lessons and having access to her father’s library.

2. The death of her mother in 1895, when Virginia was only 13, was the trauma of her life. This affected her deeply and brought her first nervous breakdown.

3. The Bloomsbury Group was an influential group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. She became a member of this group after the movement to Bloomsbury.

4. V.Woolf experimented with new narrative techniques in Mrs. Dalloway.

5. The Common Reader is Woolf’s volume of literary essays.

6. Woolf is a modernist novelist because she was interested in giving voice to the inner world of feeling and memory.

7. She privileged the monologue that permit to do not have an omniscient narrator. Moreover the point of view is shifted inside the characters’ mind through flashbacks and association of ideas.

8. The relationship between inner and outer world is that the events that traditionally made up a story were no longer important for her, what mattered was the impression they made on the characters who experienced them.

9. Plot in her fiction are reduced to the minimum because she wants to create a poetic and allusive images because the fluidity is the quality of the language of the intimate feelings.

10. The difference is that Joyce showed characters’ thoughts directly through interior monologue and Woolf never let her characters’ thoughts flow without control.

11. The moment of being is similar to epiphany of Joyce. It is a rare moment of insight during the characters’ daily life when they can see reality behind appearances.

12. Clarissa and Septimus contains relevant narrative techniques used by the novelist: the passage from Clarissa to Septimus is one of the changes of the stream of consciousness and there are direct and indirect speeches, introduced and not introduced.