Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway is a 1925 novel by Virginia Woolf, following a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for an evening party in post-World War I London.
The novel pioneered stream-of-consciousness technique, moving fluidly between characters' thoughts and memories.
The title has become shorthand for a certain kind of refined, introspective upper-class femininity: She's very Mrs Dalloway about her dinner parties.
- ClarissaName meaning clear
- LondonEngland's capital city
- partyGathering for celebration
- social gatheringConvivial group meeting
- flowersPlant reproductive structures
Virginia Woolf · June · Big Ben · stream of consciousness · modernism · Bloomsbury · Westminster · roses · hostess · memory · passing time · fleeting moments · time · society · shell shock · war trauma · interior monologue · inner life
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