Virginia Woolf 
Jacob’s Room 

Virginia Woolf’s third novel, “Jacob’s Room” (1922) differs from its two predecessors in its experimental, abstract approach to writing. Jacob Flanders’ life is examined largely through the impressions and accounts of others in his life, mostly women, creating a portrait of a young man both representative of and victimized by Edwardian society. The novel coincided with Woolf’s emerging interest in feminism and is critical of the righteous patriarchy of “the other side”, “the men in clubs and cabinets”.

About the author

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the most important modernist twentieth-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.