Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out , in 1915 and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One 's Own (1929). Kate Flint (editor, introduction, notes) is a professor of art history and English at the University of Southern California. Her books include The Woman Reader, 1837-1914 ; The Victorians and The Visual Imagination ; and Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination .