Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

I am. This is one scary woman. Consider. She was the founder and lynch-pin of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of writers, artists, and poets which is now a by-word for intellectual élitism. She was married to a poet (Leonard) and her sister and brother-in-law (the Bells) were artists. She herself was an experimental novelist, essayist and critic. She is so highbrow her hairline is invisible. Nor was she easy on the personal front. Depression accompanied her throughout her life (she drowned herself in 1941) and she was bisexual- she had a relationship with Vita Sackville-West of Sissinghurst fame. Fancy being sat next to her on a long-haul flight. What would your opening ...  Read the complete review

I am a die hard fan of virginia woolf when it comes to stream of consciousness. She turned the genre of stream of concious technique to a new level. This is the most acclaimed novel of Virginia woolf. According to the research the first draft of this novel was started under the name "the Hours". The movie adaptation of this novel is also called the same. this novel is a very short novel revolving around a woman Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway.The novel is profound patchwork of memories to represent the anxieties of the people after the first worls war and the fear of the second This novel describes one day in the life of Mrs. Dalloway. She is the perfect hostess and ...  Read the complete review

I haven't written one of these opinions for a while. One of the reasons for this is that I am quite lazy, and the second is all my university work. Well, one advantage to this is that I have read something, such as Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway, and aren't I glad I did? Well, yes I am. Mrs Dalloway is Woolf's fourth novel and is fairly short. But it is dense - very, very dense, and so deserves more time than your average 150 page novel. Set during the course of one day in London in June 1923, the book traces the day of Clarissa Dalloway, her friend from early adulthood Peter Walsh, and Septimus and Rezia Warren Smith, a separate couple also ...  Read the complete review