Which pioneering English Modernist novelist developed the stream-of-consciousness technique in novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Virginia Woolf
- Step 1: A central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia Woolf captured internal psychological time and fluid consciousness in lyrical prose. Step 2. Her landmark feminist essay A Room of One's Own argued for women's intellectual and financial independence. Answer: Virginia Woolf. Why not the others: E.M. Forster wrote A Passage to India; Katherine Mansfield wrote modernist short stories; D.H. Lawrence wrote Sons and Lovers.
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