"The Duchess and the Jeweller" (1938) is a short story by Virginia Woolf. Woolf, being an advocate of addressing the "stream of consciousness," shows the thoughts and actions of a greedy jeweller; Woolf makes a thematic point that corrupt people do corrupt actions for purely selfish motives (and often without regret). It is among Woolf's most controversial stories among critics because of the implicit characterisation of the jeweller as Jewish. Source: Wikipedia (en)