Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Penguin Classics 1996
This classic piece of modernist literature parallels a single day in the lives of two people, Clarissa Dalloway from the socially elite, and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell shocked veteran from Word War 1. It was written in 1924 and originally called The Hours, about which a film was made showing the lives of Virginia Woolf and the character of Clarissa Dalloway.
Virginia Woolf used the "stream of consciousness" which was a term first used in literature by a review of a novel by Dorothy Richardson, by May Sinclair in 1918. It is a style that was used by Katherine Mansfield too where the character examines the experience and emotions of their inner lives. Woolf was able to move back and forth in time in her narrative in order to build the characters.
She criticises a society in which women were repressed and the handling of mental illness, of which she was a sufferer. She had many bouts of mental illness following the death of her parents, and in 1941 she filled her pockets with heavy stones, walked into the river and drowned.
The book moves unnanounced between the two main characters.
Virginia Woolf set up "The Bloomsbury Group", a community of modernist writers and artists, following her job as a book critic for the Times Literary Supplement.
Penguin Classics 1996
This classic piece of modernist literature parallels a single day in the lives of two people, Clarissa Dalloway from the socially elite, and Septimus Warren Smith, a shell shocked veteran from Word War 1. It was written in 1924 and originally called The Hours, about which a film was made showing the lives of Virginia Woolf and the character of Clarissa Dalloway.
Virginia Woolf used the "stream of consciousness" which was a term first used in literature by a review of a novel by Dorothy Richardson, by May Sinclair in 1918. It is a style that was used by Katherine Mansfield too where the character examines the experience and emotions of their inner lives. Woolf was able to move back and forth in time in her narrative in order to build the characters.
She criticises a society in which women were repressed and the handling of mental illness, of which she was a sufferer. She had many bouts of mental illness following the death of her parents, and in 1941 she filled her pockets with heavy stones, walked into the river and drowned.
The book moves unnanounced between the two main characters.
Virginia Woolf set up "The Bloomsbury Group", a community of modernist writers and artists, following her job as a book critic for the Times Literary Supplement.
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