Night and Day (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1919
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic
- Time of Work: Pre-World War I
- Setting: London, England
- 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
Characters Discussed
Katharine Hilbery, the only daughter of upper-middle-class, literary parents. She lives in her family’s London home, runs the household, and is helping her mother to write a biography of the famous poet Richard Alardyce, Katharine’s grandfather. In secret, she studies mathematics. At the age of twenty-seven, she has begun to contemplate marriage, primarily as a way of attaining autonomy and a house of her own. Tall, beautiful, and elegantly dressed, she attracts both men and women with her statuesque appearance and a calm bearing that seems to suggest...
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