As a critic, she does not take an analytical point of view and it is believed to be due to the influences of impressionism at the time that she was able to do so.Fishman, Solomon. "Virginia Woolf on the Novel". The Sewanee Review 51.2 (1943): 321–340. Jstor. Web. 21 February 2012.Goldman, Mark. "Virginia Woolf and the Critic as Reader". PMLA 80.3 (1965): 275–284. Jstor. Web. 21 February 2012. Her writing and criticism was often done by intuition and feelings rather than by a scientific, analytical or systematic method.Madison, Elizabeth C. "The Common Reader and Critical Method in Virginia Woolf". Journal of Aesthetic Education 15.4 (1981): 61–73. Jstor. Web. 21 February 2012. Virginia Woolf says of criticism:
