Mrs. Dalloway Summary
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Mrs. Dalloway Summary

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, published in 1925, was a bestseller both in Britain and the United States despite its departure from typical novelistic style. Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's subsequent book, To the Lighthouse, have generated the most critical attention and are the most widely studied of Woolf's novels.

The action of Mrs. Dalloway takes place during a single day in June 1923 in London, England. This unusual organizational strategy creates a special problem for the...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Mrs. Dalloway

5,836 words, approx. 20 pages

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway was Virginia Woolfs fourth novel, although many scholars consider it the first of her great works. Like the novel that preceded it, Jacob&#x009... Read more

Virginia Woolf Biographies (6)

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf

9,349 words, approx. 32 pages

The writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary establishment.... Read more

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf

3,133 words, approx. 11 pages

Virginia Woolf is known primarily as a novelist rather than as an essayist, although she was a prolific writer of essays. Indeed, one of her advocates has gone so far as to say that her reputation as ... Read more

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf

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Although Virginia Woolf published only eighteen works of short fiction, she was engaged in writing short stories, sketches, and even experimental prose poems throughout her writing career. Recent rese... Read more

Virginia Stephen Woolf

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The English novelist, critic, and essayist Virginia Stephen Woolf (1882-1941) ranks as one of England's most distinguished writers of the period between World War I and World War II. Her novels can pe... Read more

Virginia Stephen Woolf

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Biography EssayThe writings of Virginia Woolf have always been admired by discriminating readers, but her work has suffered, as has that of many other major authors, periods of neglect by the literary... Read more

Virginia Woolf

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English writer Virginia Woolf was one of the most innovative and influential literary figures of the twentieth century. A prolific author of essays, journals, letters, and long and short fiction, she ... Read more

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Mrs. Dalloway

541 words, approx. 2 pages

Mrs. Dalloway begins to realize, through the course of her day, that she may have lost her individuality in order to become the "perfect hostess". Virginia Woolf switches narratives from the pe... Read more

Themes in Mrs. Dalloway

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The journey between life and death can be very complicated and difficult. Life's uncertainties and variables can bring either joy and happiness, or despair and despondency. Everyone experiences up's a... Read more

Critical Analysis of the Employment of Modernist Technique in 'Mrs Dalloway`

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`Mrs Dalloway' is a depiction of one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, following her preparation throughout the day culminating in a dinner party that evening for her and her husband's bourgeois f... Read more

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