I am an English writer of modernist literature. I helped pioneer stream of consciousness as a narrative device, publish novels and essays to critical and popular acclaim, and print much of my own work through the Hogarth Press.
The person outside the work — what they're learning and tinkering with.
Barred from Cambridge, I built my education myself: unrestricted reading in my father's vast library, then private tutoring in Classical Greek and Latin from 1897 and lectures at the King's College Ladies' Department.
From about 1905 I taught evening classes at Morley College as a volunteer, on and off for two years — teaching that later fed the themes of class and education in Mrs Dalloway.
In the Memoir Club, the postwar Bloomsbury circle devoted to self-writing in the manner of Proust, I presented three of the 125 memoirs, between 1921 and 1936.
