Woolf imagines an elderly woman, Mrs. Brown, glimpsed in a train from Richmond, and asks how Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells and John Galsworthy would describe her: by her house, her income and her gloves. She argues that their methods miss the person, and that Joyce, Eliot and the new writers must find tools of their own.
A short, witty essay that defined the quarrel between the Edwardians and the modernists. Download the free EPUB.