The Victorian cook lived like a leviathan in the lower depths, formidable, silent, obscure, inscrutable; the Georgian cook is a creature of sunshine and fresh air; in and out of the drawing-room, now to borrow The Daily Harold, now to ask advice about a hat.
-- Virginia Woolf

Importance: This quotation serves as Woolf's explanation for how human character changed around the year 1910. She uses the figure of the house cook to illustrate that this major shift leaned toward a more democratic way of living. Like the house cook, who becomes more present and involved in the goings-on of the estate, society in general started to shift toward welcoming more voices into the fold. This shift, Woolf notes, is what separates the Edwardian writers from the Georgians.

But novelists differ from the rest of the world because they d not cease to be interested in character when they have learnt enough about it for...
-- Virginia Woolf