10 Facts About Mrs Dalloway

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Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf, published on 14 May 1925, that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England.

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2.

In October 2005, Mrs Dalloway was included on TIME Magazines list of the 100 best English-language novels written since its first issue in 1923.

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Clarissa Mrs Dalloway goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening.

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4.

Mrs Dalloway's hears about Septimus' suicide at the party and gradually comes to admire this stranger's act, which she considers an effort to preserve the purity of his happiness.

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5.

Mrs Dalloway'sll shock, or post traumatic stress disorder, is an important addition to the early 20th century canon of post-war British literature.

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6.

Mrs Dalloway's keeps up with and even embraces the social expectations of the wife of a patrician politician, but she is still able to express herself and find distinction in the parties she throws.

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7.

Clarissa Mrs Dalloway feels a strong friendship bond to Sally Seton at Bourton.

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Mrs Dalloway's feels about Sally "as men feel, " but she does not regard these feelings as signs of same-sex attraction, rather as a very strong friendship.

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9.

The Hours is about a single day in the lives of three women of different generations who are affected by Mrs Dalloway: Woolf is writing it, Laura is reading it, and Clarissa is living it out.

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10.

Mrs Dalloway appears in Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, as well as five of her short stories, in which she hosts dinner parties to which the main subject of the narrative is invited:.

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