Virginia Woolf’s Essays: Sketching the Past

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Although marginal and often neglected genres, the sketch and the essay represented for Virginia Woolf the two forms of writing through which she articulated her understanding of the workings of literary history. This study analyzes the intersection between essays and sketches in Woolf’s non-fiction as part of an argument about the scopes and models of feminist criticism, its understanding of the historical process and its position in the panorama of 20th-century intellectual history.