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Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf. * a novel by Virginia Woolf * created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime.

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1 Mrs Dalloway By Virginia Woolf

2 * a novel by Virginia Woolf * created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", * interior perspective of the novel, the story travels back and forward in time *chosen by Time magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels

3 Plot *the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. *series of circumstances bring back memories *depicts a image of post war social structure

4 Characters

5 Main Character: Clarrissa Dalloway Other Charcters: Richard Dalloway Peter Walsh Sally Seton Septimus Warren Smith Lucrezia “Rezia” Smith Elizaberth Dalloway Sir William Bradshaw Hugh Withbread Miss. Kilman Dr Holmes

6 Themes Mental illnes Love Feminism Existential issues

7 Quotes “…this body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing — nothing at all. She had the oddest sense of being herself invisible; unseen; unknown; there being no more marrying, no more having of children now, but only this astonishing and rather solemn progress with the rest of them, up Bond Street,this being Mrs. Dalloway; not even Clarissa any more; this being Mrs. Richard Dalloway. “ “But this question of love (she thought, putting her coat away), this falling in love with women. Take Sally Seton; her relation in the old days with Sally Seton. Had not that, after all, been love? “


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