Complex sentence: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882--28 March 1941) was an English writer who is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Split into simpler sentences: Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 1882--28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.