Night and Day (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Domestic comedy
- Time of Work: The early 1910’s, before World War I
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: Katharine Hilbery, William Rodney, Ralph Denham, Mary Datchet, Cassandra Otway
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Freedom, Self-discovery, Tradition, Love or romance, Gender roles, Literature, Marriage, 1910’s, England or English people, Feminism, Women’s issues, Upper classes, London
- Locales: London, England
The Novel
The attempts of a group of upper-middle-class young people to find their rightful marriage partners within the stilted conventions of courtship in Edwardian England form the substance of Night and Day. The plot, which covers a nine-month period from October to the following June, has many of the elements of dramatic farce. There are chance meetings, overheard conversations, misinterpretations, and comic figures, but all difficulties are happily resolved in the traditional comic ending.
The novel opens with Katharine Hilbery pouring tea at an afternoon...
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