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    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide
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    Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis): Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

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    Unlock the more straightforward side of Mrs Dalloway with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

    This engaging summary presents an analysis of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, a masterpiece of English modernist literature. In this stylistically daring work, we follow two different yet similar characters for one day, as they walk the streets of London in the interwar period. A vivid painting of human nature, the condition of women and the personal disasters wreaked by war, this novel has topped reading lists for decades. Woolf was a significant figure in literary society during her lifetime and believed that female writers should have their own money, a controversial opinion to hold at such a time. Her legacy has lived on ever since her tragic suicide, which ended her lifelong suffering with mental illness. 

    Find out everything you need to know about Mrs Dalloway  in a fraction of the time!

    This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you:
    • A complete plot summary
    • Character studies
    • Key themes and symbols
    • Questions for further reflection

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    Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you in your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrightSummaries.com
    Release dateFeb 26, 2016
    ISBN9782806273383
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      Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (Book Analysis) - Bright Summaries

      English writer and feminist

      Born in London in 1882

      Died in Sussex in 1941

      Notable works:

      Night and Day (1919), novel

      To the Lighthouse (1927), novel

      The Waves (1931), novel

      An English writer born in 1882 in London, Virginia Woolf was the author of many essays, short stories and novels. She wrote, among other things, To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928) and A Room of One’s Own (1929). A true pillar of modernist literature and a defining figure of interwar English literature, she sought to depict the violent and incoherent reality of the England of her time in her works.

      Along with her husband Leonard, she founded Hogarth Press in 1917, a publishing house that published Virginia’s works, as well as those by Sigmund Freud, Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot. Suffering from bipolar disorder, Virginia sank into madness after her mother’s death and committed suicide by drowning herself in

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