Mrs Woolf first became known tothe wider reading public with thepublication of A Room gf One’.v Ownin 1929. But the year before that,her novel To the Lightlwuse had beenawarded the Northclilife and FeminaVie Heureuse prizes. It has sincebeen translated into many languages,including French, German, Spanish,and Italian.Virginia WooIf”s technique is allher own. In the words of NaomiRoyde-Smith: ‘Mrs Woolf is illuminated, analytic, and radiant with apersonal quality that increases inbeauty and power with every bookshe writes, and has in To the Lighrbuuse reached a pitch unsounded byany English writer of her school]