In her last novel, Between the Acts, as well as in her unpublished essay, "Anon", Virginia Woolf was more than before pursuing her lifelong theme of the anonymous author and the form of creation supported and completed by the audience. So Miss La Trobe, whose pageant is central to the novel, remains anonymous and solitary throughout. Her pageant is solely performed by the villagers themselves. Most of the audience are also the village inhabitants and each of them tries to find meanings in the pageant. Above all, Lucy Swithin, who is over seventy, goes so far as to have a contact with Miss La Trobe, concealing herself in the bushes. In fact, as her habit of reading an Outline of History indicates, Lucy is not only one of the audience but also a reader who replaces the audience at a certain point in the history of English Literature, according to Woolfs "Anon". Besides, Lucy has two special powers given only to the old woman. One of them is that while reading her history book, she makes full use of her imagination and "increases the bounds of the moment" by reconstructing the past and future. Thus, she is able to transcend the limits of time and space freely. At the end of the novel, she incorporates "the re-created world" of La Trobe into her book by this ability. The other power is that she can see through the silent world of the mysterious pictures connected with the bottom of the lily pond. Though the world annihilates every being, it is also the source of every creation. Lucy sees La Trobe pass through the world (the pond) before the artist accomplishes her new creation. This makes the old woman almost a sub-creator of La Trobe's new play after all.

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In writing her third novel Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf intended to unite her experiments in 'The Mark on the Wall', 'Kew Gardens', and 'An Unwritten Novel' to challenge traditional "materialist" writers. In this novel, Jacob Flanders lives in his rooms in Cambridge and afterwards in London. Though the author depicts him in the train to Cambridge probably at the end of September, through another passenger's point of view, we see his room at Trinity College for the first time in Easter Term, probably next year. But then he is not there. He is dining in Hall, and the author describes the inside of his room. Jacob's room in London is at Lamb's Conduit Street, near the British Museum, and the lodging house was built in the eighteenth century. Since his Cambridge days he has been interested in the ancient Greek culture, and at the same time, in indecency. He has to cope with adolescent themes between the mind and the body, and between beauty and love. Some women appear before him. His friend's sister Clara Durrant suppresses her love to him. He brings into his room Florinda, an attractive and illiterate street-walker. Fanny Elmer is an artist's model, who loves Jacob, but knows that he will forget her. In his journey to Greece, he goes up to Acropolis at Athens, and his soul's solitary pilgrimage seems to come to an end. His love affair there with Mrs. Sandra Wentworth Williams is Woolf's another challenge to "materialist" writers. Soon after his return to London, he is killed in World War 1. And in the last chapter, "He left everything just as it was" in his room. Bonamy gives a cry of Jacob's name. Mrs. Flanders holds out a pair of Jacob's old shoes as if to declare his journey's end.

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