Virginia Woolf And Mrs Dalloway

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Virginia Woolf And Mrs Dalloway

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First part :some information about Virginia Woolf

Second part : Mrs Dalloway

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Part one Virginia Woolf ( 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) . English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories

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Virginia Woolfregarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929), with its famous dictum, "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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Virginia Woolf was born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London in 1882 to Sir Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen (née Jackson). Virginia's father, Sir Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), was a notable historian, author, critic and mountaineer.[1] He was the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, a work which would influence Woolf's later experimental biographies. Virginia's mother Julia Stephen (1846–1895) was a renowned beauty, born in India to Dr. John and Maria Pattle Jackson. She was also the niece of Julia Margaret Cameron nee Pattle, the famous photographer. Julia moved to England with her mother, where she served as a model for Pre-Raphaelite painters such as Edward Burne-Jones.[2] Woolf was educated by her parents in their literate and well-connected household at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington.

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The works of Virginia Woolf1.Novels: The Voyage Out · Night and Day · Jacob's Room ·Mrs Dalloway ·To the Lighthouse · Orlando: A Biography ·The Waves ·The Years ·Between the Acts 2.Short stories: A Haunted House ·A Society · Monday or Tuesday ·An Unwritten Novel ·The String Quartet ·Blue & Green ·Kew Gardens ·The Mark on the Wall ·The New Dress ·The Duchess and the Jeweller 3.Biographies:Flush: A Biography ·Roger Fry: A Biography Non-fiction Modern Fiction ·The Common Reader · Room of One's A Own · Being Ill · On The London Scene ·The Second Common Reader · Three Guineas ·The Death of the Moth and Other Essays ·The Moment and Other Essays · Women and Writing

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Part two Mrs Dalloway one of Woolf's best-known novels published on 14 May 1925 a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in postWorld War I England.

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Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in and out of the characters' minds to construct an image of Clarissa's life and of the inter-war social structure.

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Mrs Dalloway 1 Plot summary 2 Characters 3 Style 4 Themes

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Plot summary Clarissa Dalloway g

oes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth at Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband; she married the reliable Richard Dalloway instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh and she "had not the option" to be with Sally Seton. Peter reintroduces these conflicts by paying a visit that morning. Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran of World War I suffering from deferred traumatic stress, spends his day in the park with his Italian-born wife Lucrezia, where they are observed by Peter Walsh. Septimus is visited by frequent and indecipherable hallucinations, mostly concerning his dear friend Evans who died in the war. Later that day, after he is prescribed involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital, he commits suicide by jumping out of a window. Clarissa's party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended by most of the characters she has met in the book, including people from her past. She hears about Septimus' suicide at the party and gradually comes to admire the act of this stranger, which she considers an effort to preserve the purity of his happiness.

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Characters Clarissa Dalloway The fifty-two-year-old protagonist of the novel. She is the wife of Richard and mother of Elizabeth. She spends the day organizing a party that will be held that night while also reminiscing about the past. She is self-conscious about her role in London high society. Richard Dalloway The disconnected and haughty husband of Clarissa. He is immersed in his work in government.

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Elizabeth Dalloway Seventeen-year-old daughter of Clarissa and Richard. She is said to look "oriental" and has great composure. Compared to her mother, she takes great pleasure in politics and modern history, hoping to be either a doctor or farmer in the future. Septimus Warren Smith A World War I veteran who suffers from "shell shock" and hallucinations of his deceased friend, Evans. Educated and decorated in the war, he is detached from society. He is married to Lucrezia from whom he has grown distant.

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Lucrezia "Rezia" Smith The Italian wife of Septimus. She is burdened by his mental illness and believes that she is judged because of it. During most of the novel she is homesick for family and country, which she left to marry Septimus after the Armistice. Sall …… 此处隐藏：6386字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……