The New Dress | The Interrelated Nature of Collected Stories
In the following excerpt, McNichol notes the
interrelated nature of the stories she has collected
and published as Mrs. Dalloway’s Party: A Short
Story Sequence, to one another and to the novel
Mrs Dalloway.
‘‘The New Dress’’ was written in 1924 when Virginia Woolf was revising Mrs Dalloway for publication. In a pencil note to the manuscript opening of the story Virginia Woolf states:
The New Dress At Mrs D’s party She got it on this theory the theory of clothes but very little money this brings in the relation with sex; her estimate of herself.
‘‘Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street’’ and ‘‘The New Dress’’ are both connected with the genesis of the novel Mrs Dalloway; the other five stories written consecutively and...
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