portrait of life in interwar London; To the Lighthouse, a modernist tour-de-force evolving from a family's trips to a lighthouse on the Isle of Skye; Orlando, the satirical story of the life and travails of a 300-year-old man-turned-woman; A Room of One's Own, the quintessential feminist essay on the injustices women face. Woolf is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a feminist icon.