Woolf also acknowledges her mentors, including Aphra Behn, realizing that “a woman writing thinks back through her mothers.” Many modern writers have also acknowledged Woolf’s influence on them, ...

Sylvia Plath. Cape Cod Journal: typescript, 17 July 1957. Responding to The Waves in her journal, Plath was initially “disturbed” and “almost angered” with Woolf’s “endless sun, waves, birds, and the ...