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Mrs Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

First published 1925

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On a single day in June 1923, Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a London party while remembering earlier choices, friendships and desires. Her movements are set beside those of Septimus Warren Smith, a veteran suffering from severe war trauma whose doctors misunderstand his condition. Their stories reveal a society attempting to restore ceremony and normality while grief, disability and memories of the First World War remain present. The novel offers a concentrated portrait of post-war London, including class, medicine, marriage, empire, sexuality and the emotional cost of public respectability.

Historical Periods

Armistice and Aftermath of World War I1918–1923 CE

Genres

Queer Fiction Social & Domestic Fiction War Fiction

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