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One of the 20th century’s most innovative authors, Virigina Woolf was writing at a time of great change as technology advanced and women finally secured the right to vote. Woolf’s most famous novels, To The Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway, were written in a stream of consciousness style that allowed her to explore themes such as the subconscious and memory. Woolf was a member of the influential Bloomsbury set of artists and published many of the group’s books through the Hogarth Press, a publishing company Woolf set up with her husband. Woolf died in 1941 but her legacy and influence is still felt today. In this fascinating extract from 1937, Woolf talks about words themselves, about how they don’t live in dictionaries but in the mind. This is thought to be the only recording of her voice that exists.