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1902Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories
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1904Sherlock Holmes
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1908Christabel Pankhurst
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1912Captain Scott's Diary
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1913G. B. Shaw's Pygmalion
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1914Suffragettes protest
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1917Wilfred Owen: WWI poetry
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1925Art in poetry
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1925Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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1928Nottinghamshire dialect
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1929BBC English
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1939Wanted poster for Hitler
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1939World War II ultimatum letter
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1943Make Do and Mend
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1948Immigration from India
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1955Chinese restaurants
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1959Paul Robeson's Othello
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1960Sylvia Plath
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1964The Beatles in the USA
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1969Man lands on the moon
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1970Women's liberation magazine
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1973J.G. Ballard, Crash
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1976Punk fanzine
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1976The Sex Pistols
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1984J.G. Ballard, Empire of the Sun
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1991Angela Carter, Wise Children
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Intro
Virginia Woolf was one of the most innovative and experimental English writers of her time. This extract is taken from the working draft of one of her most admired novels - Mrs Dalloway, first published in 1925. In her own handwriting, we see her explore a new style of writing called 'stream of consciousness', in which the imprint of experience and emotion on the inner lives of characters is as important as the stories they act out. The technique aims to give readers the impression of being inside the mind of the character - an internal view that illuminates plot and motivation in the novel. Thoughts spoken aloud are not always the same as those 'on the floor of the mind', as Woolf put it.
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