Question

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon analyzes a 181-word-long sentence by this author about the “undiscovered countries” disclosed when “the lights of health go down.” An essay by this author criticizes (10[1])novelists who feel constrained as if by a tyrant to provide “comedy, tragedy, love interest, and an air of probability,” but leave a reader asking “Is life like this?”. That essay by this author declares, “life is a luminous halo” not “a series (10[1])of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged.” (10[1])This author attacked H.G. Wells, John Galsworthy, and frequent target Arnold (10[1])Bennett, (10[3])but praised (10[1])Chekhov’s story “Gusev” (“GOOSS-yiff”), in the essay “Modern Fiction.” (10[1])She instructs (10[1])the reader, “call me (10[1])Mary Beton, (10[4])Mary (10[1])Seton, Mary (10[1])Carmichael (10[2])or by any (10[1])name you please” in an essay that invents Shakespeare’s (10[2])sister (10[1])Judith. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author of A Room of One’s Own. ■END■

ANSWER: Virginia Woolf [or Adeline Virginia Woolf; or Adeline Virginia Stephen] (The first essay is “On Being Ill.”)
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