Mrs. Dalloway (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1925
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: 1920’s
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Clarissa Dalloway, Richard Dalloway, Peter Walsh, Elizabeth, Miss Kilman, Sally Seton
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Memory, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Suicide, Self, 1920’s, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, Mental illness, England or English people, Lesbianism or lesbians, Upper classes, London, World War I, Personality, Consciousness, Middle age, Parties, Psychiatry or psychiatrists, Nostalgia
- Locales: London, England
The Story:
Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway went to make last-minute preparations for an evening party. During her day in the city, she enjoyed the summer air, the many sights and people, and the general bustle of London. She met Hugh Whitbread, now a court official and a handsome and sophisticated man. She had known Hugh since her youth, and she also knew his wife, Evelyn, for whom she did not particularly care. Other people came to London to see paintings, to hear music, or to shop, but the Whitbreads came to consult doctors, for Evelyn was always ailing.
Mrs. Dalloway went...
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