Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf is the author and speaker in "Street Haunting." She is an English author most famous for her novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse – texts that explore the consciousness of female characters as they exist in the social world. Woolf is considered one of the pioneers of the stream-of-consciousness style, which denotes a writing style that dispenses with strict linearity and logic and instead dramatizes the inner workings of the mind. This style is prevalent in most of her works and "Street Haunting" is no exception; indeed, the very premise of "Street Haunting" – walking through London at night – is configured as a journey through the mind as it perceives its surroundings.

Experts agree that Woolf suffered from mental illness and depression during her lifetime. The collection in which "Street Haunting" appears, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays, is noticeably preoccupied with...