Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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This engaging summary presents an analysis of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a masterpiece of English modernist literature. In this stylistically daring work, we follow two different yet similar characters for one day, as they walk the streets of London in the interwar period. A vivid painting of human nature, the condition of women and the personal disasters wreaked by war, this novel has topped reading lists for decades. Woolf was a significant figure in literary society during her lifetime and believed that female writers should have their own money, a controversial opinion to hold at such a time. Her legacy has lived on ever since her tragic suicide, which ended her lifelong suffering with mental illness.
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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries
English writer and feminist
Born in London in 1882
Died in Sussex in 1941
Notable works:
Night and Day (1919), novel
To the Lighthouse (1927), novel
The Waves (1931), novel
An English writer born in 1882 in London, Virginia Woolf was the author of many essays, short stories and novels. She wrote, among other things, To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and A Room of One’s Own (1929). A true pillar of modernist literature and a defining figure of interwar English literature, she sought to depict the violent and incoherent reality of the England of her time in her works.
Along with her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917, a publishing house that published Virginia’s works, as well as those by Sigmund Freud, Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Suffering from bipolar disorder, Virginia sank into madness after her mother’s death and committed suicide by drowning herself in