Mrs Dalloway

One June day in London: Clarissa's party preparations shadowed by a shell-shocked veteran's descent.

Specifications & Metrics

author

Virginia Woolf

type

Modernist novel

era

High modernism (1925)

language

English

setting

Westminster, London, one June day

parts

1 volume

Relative Scale in Novels

Core Principles & Analysis

• Published in 1925 by the Hogarth Press.
• Its single day moves through Clarissa's hours and Septimus Smith's madness.
• Big Ben's strokes stitch the city's separate minds together.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Mrs Dalloway