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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a masterpiece of English modernist literature. In this stylistically daring work, we follow two different yet similar characters for one day, as they walk the streets of London in the interwar period. A vivid painting of human nature, the condition of women and the personal disasters wreaked by war, this novel has topped reading lists for decades. Woolf was a significant figure in literary society during her lifetime and believed that female writers should have their own money, a controversial opinion to hold at such a time. Her legacy has lived on ever since her tragic suicide, which ended her lifelong suffering with mental illness.
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Virginia Woolf
English writer and feminist
Born in London in 1882Died in Sussex in 1941Notable works:Night and Day (1919), novelTo the Lighthouse (1927), novelThe Waves (1931), novelAn English writer born in 1882 in London, Virginia Woolf was the author of many essays, short stories and novels. She wrote, among other things, To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and A Room of One’s Own (1929). A true pillar of modernist literature and a defining figure of interwar English literature, she sought to depict the violent and incoherent reality of the England of her time in her works.
Along with her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917, a publishing house that published Virginia’s works, as well as those by Sigmund Freud, Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Suffering from bipolar disorder, Virginia sank into madness after her mother’s death and committed suicide by drowning herself in 1941.
Mrs Dalloway
A true portrait of the London metropole
Genre: novelReference edition: Woolf, V. (2014) Mrs Dalloway. Sydney: Waxkeep Publishing. (Kindle Edition).First edition: 1925Themes: interwar period, London, death, love, madness, nostalgiaPublished in 1925, Mrs Dalloway was met with acclaim from the readership and critics, who considered that, with this novel, Virginia Woolf had found her true style.
The story is set in London during the interwar period and takes place over the course of a single day. The city of London is as important in the novel as the many characters that walk in it. Two storylines intermingle: that of Clarissa Dalloway, a bourgeois housewife, and that of Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran from the First World War.
Summary
The novel is not divided into chapters. However, in the present analysis, we will divide it into twelve parts to make it easier to summarize.
The flowers (p. 17-29)
