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Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf's best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more.
Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her mind wanders to the people who will be attending her party and her relationship with them. Her husband, Richard Dalloway; Peter Walsh, a man she might have married instead; Sally Seton, a woman with whom she shared a forbidden kiss; Septimus Warren Smith, a man slowly sinking into madness.
The narrative focus shifts back and forth from Mrs. Dalloway to the characters who will be attending her dinner party in a groundbreaking stream of consciousness.
The dinner party, like the novel, is a success.
About the author
Virginia Woolf was an influential modernist writer of the early 20th century. Her works, including "Mrs. Dalloway" and "To the Lighthouse," explored the inner lives and experiences of her characters, often using stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. Woolf was also a feminist and an advocate for women's rights and mental health awareness.
