Abel, Elizabeth, Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, University of Chicago Press, 1989.

The brilliant chapter on Mrs. Dalloway from Abel's
book examines the way in which Woolf's novel responds
to and contests Freud's theories about women.

Daiches, David, Virginia Woolf, James Laughlin, 1942.

Daiches book gives an excellent, highly readable
overview of Woolf's art and fictions.

Edwards, Lee R., "War and Roses: The Politics of Mrs. Dalloway," in The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist Criticism, edited by Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, University of Massachusetts Press, 1977, pp. 161-77.

This essay provides an important and informative aspect
on the politics of Mrs. Dalloway.

Fussell, Paul, The Great War and Modern Memory, Oxford University Press, 1975.

Fussel's text is a definitive book on WWI—its life
in the popular imagination, the way soldiers experienced
it, and the poetry of its soldiers.

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