Literary career Dissatisfied with the novel based on familiar, factual,and external details,Virginia Woolf followed experimental clues to a more internal,subjective,and in a sense more personal rendering of experience than had been provided by Henry James,Marcel Proust,and James Joyce. Literary career ❖ Dissatisfied with the novel based on familiar, factual, and external details, Virginia Woolf followed experimental clues to a more internal, subjective, and in a sense more personal rendering of experience than had been provided by Henry James, Marcel Proust, and James Joyce