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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 ...
Septimus was a decorated officer in the First World War but is now collapsing under the strain of delayed shell-shock, in which he is paralysed by horrible flashbacks and consumed with guilt over the death of his closest comrade. His wife Rezia tries to get him psychiatric help but the doctors she consults are little use: when one commits him ...
Background. Although Three Guineas is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her earlier work, A Room of One's Own. [1] The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both types ...
The award-winning author of 'Olive Kitteridge' and 'Tell Me Everything' on Ernest Hemingway, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' and the book that broke her heart.
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
Christ and the woman taken in adultery, drawing by Rembrandt. Jesus and the woman taken in adultery (or the Pericope Adulterae) [a] is a likely pseudepigraphical [1] passage (pericope) found in John 7:53 – 8:11 [2] of the New Testament. In the passage, Jesus was teaching in the Temple after coming from the Mount of Olives.
The Book of Kells (Latin: Codex Cenannensis; Irish: Leabhar Cheanannais; Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS A. I. [58], sometimes known as the Book of Columba) is an illuminated manuscript and Celtic Gospel book in Latin, [1] containing the four Gospels of the New Testament together with various prefatory texts and tables.
The novel introduces Clarissa Dalloway, the central character of Woolf's later novel, Mrs Dalloway. Two of the other characters were modelled after important figures in Woolf's life. St. John Hirst is a fictional portrayal of Lytton Strachey, and Helen Ambrose is, to some extent, inspired by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. [7]