description: Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway–a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the suicide of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance–infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life–Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally published in 1925, Mrs. Dalloway is Woolf’s first complete rendering of what she described as the “luminous envelope” of consciousness: a dazzling display of the mind’s inside as it plays over the brilliant surface and darker depths of reality.
language: English
title: Mrs. Dalloway
titlecomplete: Mrs. Dalloway
characters: Sally Seton, Sir William Bradshaw, Lucrezia Smith, Hugh Whitbread, Septimus Warren Smith, Clarissa Dalloway, Doris Kilman, Peter Walsh, Elizabeth Dalloway, Richard Dalloway
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, School, Literature, Classics, Novels, Feminism, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 291528
places: England, United Kingdom, London, England