VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882–1941) was one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century. An admired literary critic, she authored many essays, letters, journals, and short stories in addition to her groundbreaking novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To The Lighthouse, and Orlando.
SUSAN GUBAR is Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies at Indiana University. A recipient of the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Book Critics Circle, she is the coauthor of The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination and No Man's Land with Sandra M. Gilbert.