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Mrs Dalloway

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"For there she was." Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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A new edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, detailing a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in June 1923. This edition is fully annotated with an introduction that broadens and deepens key aspects of the historical context.

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"For there she was."

Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class woman in London, in June 1923, as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith, a poor young man suffering from shell-shock, in a contrasting narrative that provides poignant insights into the political, historical, and social issues of Woolf's day.

The novel brings memories and the present together, written and set in the uneasy years immediately after the First World War. This new edition, annotated and introduced by Trudi Tate, broadens and deepens key aspects of the historical context, including a fresh examination of Woolf's representations of women in the wake of the first women in Britain winning the right to vote, the context of post-war politics, and the innovative aspects of the author's writing style.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years, Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780192859853

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 3rd Revised edition

Illustration: 1 map

Contributors:

  • Edited by Trudi Tate

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 162g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Trudi Tate is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Cambridge Faculty of English. She specialises in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature, with a particular interest in Virginia Woolf. Her books include Modernism, History and the First World War (2013), A Short History of the Crimean War (2019), The Silent Morning: Culture and Memory after the Armistice (ed. with Kate Kennedy, 2013), and Women's Fiction and the Great War (ed. with Suzanne Raitt, 1997). She is director of Literature Cambridge, which runs regular courses and a summer school on Woolf.

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