Mrs. Dalloway was written by Virginia Woolf between 1922 and 1924, during a pivotal period in her literary career. The novel was published by Hogarth Press, the small publishing house Woolf co-founded with her husband, on 14 May 1925.
What began as a short story titled Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street evolved into a novel that broke narrative conventions. Instead of a linear plot, Woolf built the story around a single day in London, using stream of consciousness to slip between the minds of her characters. The book offers no chapters, only time, memory, and perception flowing through the streets and inner lives of Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, and those around them.
Set in post–World War I England, Mrs. Dalloway explores themes of trauma, aging, gender roles, social performance, and the tension between surface and interior life. It is widely considered one of Woolf’s most important works, a modernist masterpiece that transformed how we think about fiction.
This ebook edition has been curated by Librery from the public domain text, preserving the original language and form so that readers everywhere can continue to walk the streets of London and the corridors of the mind with Clarissa Dalloway.
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Mrs. Dalloway was written by Virginia Woolf between 1922 and 1924, during a pivotal period in her literary career. The novel was published by Hogarth Press, the small publishing house Woolf co-founded with her husband, on 14 May 1925.
What began as a short story titled Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street evolved into a novel that broke narrative conventions. Instead of a linear plot, Woolf built the story around a single day in London, using stream of consciousness to slip between the minds of her characters. The book offers no chapters, only time, memory, and perception flowing through the streets and inner lives of Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Warren Smith, and those around them.
Set in post–World War I England, Mrs. Dalloway explores themes of trauma, aging, gender roles, social performance, and the tension between surface and interior life. It is widely considered one of Woolf’s most important works, a modernist masterpiece that transformed how we think about fiction.
This ebook edition has been curated by Librery from the public domain text, preserving the original language and form so that readers everywhere can continue to walk the streets of London and the corridors of the mind with Clarissa Dalloway.