Virginia Woolf, whose centennial year was celebrated in 1982, has increasingly become the focus of a tremendous upsurge of interest: in her novels and collected essays; in the cumulative volumes of her diaries and letters; in Leonard Woolf's five-volume autobiography; in a growing number of biographies concerning her life; and in the vast quantities of critical comment concerning her work. Her early awareness of feminist issues, her androgynous orientation, her membership in Bloomsbury, her emotional illnesses and eventual suicide, have also catalyzed the flow of attention shown her. An early innovator of the modern psychological novel, VW's approach is in the tradition of the stream of consciousness or interior monologue technique of Proust and Joyce: here she shows an audacity in her shaping of time as well as a unique, highly textured depiction of situation and character. It was her belief that the most fertile realm of the writer's armamentarium was to be found in the unconscious.