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Mrs Dalloway at Wikisource. Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. [1][2] It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. The working title of Mrs Dalloway was The Hours. The novel originated from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and ...
English. Box office. $4 million. Mrs Dalloway is a 1997 British drama film, a co-production by the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands, directed by Marleen Gorris and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Natascha McElhone and Michael Kitchen. [1]
penguinrandomhouse.com. $30.00. More. While Shelf Life has featured its share of JDs, none have, like Elizabeth Strout, also earned a gerontology certificate. Now the Pulitzer Prize-winning, NYT ...
In the postwar Mrs Dalloway (1925), Woolf addresses the moral dilemma of war and its effects [181] [182] and provides an authentic voice for soldiers returning from the First World War, suffering from shell shock, in the person of Septimus Smith. [183]
The Hours. The Hours, a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf 's 1923 work Mrs. Dalloway; Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes within different settings. The Hours won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later ...
My Lady Ludlow is a novel (over 77,000 words in the Project Gutenberg text) by Elizabeth Gaskell. It originally appeared in the magazine Household Words in 1858, and was republished in Round the Sofa in 1859, with framing passages added at the start and end. The novel follows the daily lives of the widowed Countess of Ludlow of Hanbury and the ...
Septimus Bean and His Amazing Machine, a children's book; Septimus Heap, a series of books by Angie Sage, as well as the main character in the series; Septimus Warren Smith, a character in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway; Doctor Septimus Pretorius, a fictional character in the 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein
Plot. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provides Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway.