Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) (36 page)

 

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The Prime Minister
: Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947), Conservative Party statesman, held this office 1923–24, 1924–29, and 1935–37.

 

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dampers
: Movable part that permits regulation of the draft, and hence the heat, of a stove. They might actually be pushed, rather than pulled in.

 

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Imperial Tokay
: Aromatic dessert wine produced near city of that name in northeast Hungary; this brand has presumably been stocked in the cellars of royalty.

 

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birds of Paradise
: Birds native to New Guinea. Males have colorful, ornamental plumage. The flight of the curtains is mentioned again (166).

 

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public school man
: In England, what Americans would consider a private school is called a public school, and hence it is a place of privilege.

 

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Sir Joshua
: Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), eighteenth-century English portrait painter in the “grand style.”

 

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Mrs. Durrant and Clara
: Mother and daughter who appear in Woolf's
Jacob's Room
. Clara is the sister of Jacob's friend Timothy Durrant, and one of several love interests.

 

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St. John's Wood
: Residential area northwest of Regent's Park in London, where artists (including Academicians—members of the Royal Academy) and writers resided. Woolf mentions George Eliot's living there in
A Room of One's Own
. Sir Edwin Landseer, who developed the style attributed to Sir Harry, was also a resident.

 

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will-o'-the-wisp
: Flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, attributable to marsh gas, and thus something deluding or misleading.

 

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old Mrs. Hilbery
: Character who appears in Woolf's second novel,
Night and Day
.

 

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Hampstead
: Village in North London dating from the eighteenth century, where artists and freethinkers have resided. Adjacent is the preserved open space of Hampstead Heath.

 

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Lords
: The cricket ground mentioned early in the novel (5).

 

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a green frill
: Woolf imagines a similar putting out of a frill by her character Jinny in
The Waves
.

 

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Burma
: Now known as Myanmar, a country in southeast Asia on the Bay of Bengal. It was gradually annexed by the British colonial government of India during the three Burma Wars (1824–86).

 

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this isle of men, this dear, dear land
: Reminiscent of speech praising England by John of Gaunt in Shakespeare's
Richard II
, Act II, Scene i: “This land of such dear souls, this dear dear land.”

 

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armoured goddess
: Though this could be the Greek goddess Athena, whose various charges include warfare, the female symbol of the empire is Britannia, represented with trident and helmet, in a seated position.

 

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Union Jack
: Great Britain's national flag, which combines Saint George's red cross, representing England; Saint Andrew's white cross on a blue field, representing Scotland; and Saint Patrick's diagonal red on white cross, representing Ireland. Originally flown from the jack staff of a ship.

 

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punt
: Small shallow boat with two square ends, propelled by a long pole, often used for outings on rivers in Britain. Boating at Bourton seems to have been a regular activity (see 61).

 

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that Bill
[178] . . .
deferred effects of shell shock
: An official inquiry into shell shock had been initiated by the British government's
War Office in 1920. Woolf could have read extensive details of its report, issued in 1922, in the
Times
.

 

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his eleven
: His cricket team (composed of eleven players).

 

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“If it were now to die, twere now to be most happy”
: Repeat of quotation from
Othello
(34).

 

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Fear no more the heat of the sun
: Repeat of quotation from
Cymbeline
(9).

 

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“But where is Clarissa?”
: The English edition has a section break before this. Woolf called for the break on a set of corrected proofs that she. sent to her friend the painter Jacques Raverat, who was dying from multiple sclerosis. (This set is now in the Department of Special Collections, University Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.) She did not call for the break on the proofs she corrected for her American publisher (now in the Lilly Library at Indiana University).

 

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Emily Brontë
: English poet and author of the novel
Wuthering Heights
(1847).

 

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in red
: Elizabeth's dress is described by Lucy, Ellie, and Richard as pink (162, 165, 189).

 

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Suez Canal
: Canal in Egypt connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas, constructed 1859–69. It was largely controlled by the British, giving them economic and strategic power in the region (1875–1956). From her own travels and her interest in plants, Vita Sackville-West could have informed Woolf of rare lilies native to the area.

 

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fifty-two to be precise
: Peter may have been more “precise” when he registered his age at fifty-three, earlier in the novel (77).

Editions

 

The Complete Shorter Fiction
. Edited by Susan Dick. 2nd ed. San Diego: Harcourt, 1989.

The Diary of Virginia Woolf
. Edited by Anne Olivier Bell. 5 vols. New York: Harcourt, 1977–84.

The Essays of Virginia Woolf
. Edited by Andrew McNeillie. 6 vols. [in progress], San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986–.

The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann. 6 vols. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975–80.

Moments of Being
. Edited by Jeanne Schulkind. San Diego: Harcourt, 1985.

A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897–1909
. Edited by Mitchell A. Leaska. San Diego: Harcourt, 1990.

 

Biographies and Reference Works

 

Briggs, Julia.
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life
. San Diego: Harcourt, 2005.

Hussey, Mark.
Virginia Woolf A to Z: A Comprehensive Reference for Students, Teachers, and Common Readers to Her Life, Works, and Critical Reception
. New York: Facts on File, 1995.

Kirkpatrick, B. J., and Stuart N. Clarke.
A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf
. 4th ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1997.

Lee, Hermione.
Virginia Woolf
New York: Knopf, 1996.

Marder, Herbert.
The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years
. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000.

Poole, Roger.
The Unknown Virginia Woolf
4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Reid, Panthea.
Art and Alffection: A Life of Virginia Woolf
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

 

General Criticism

 

Abel, Elizabeth.
Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Bazin, Nancy Topping.
Virginia Woolf and the Androgynous Vision
. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1973.

Beer, Gillian.
Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996.

Cuddy-Keane, Melba.
Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

DiBattista, Maria.
Virginia Woolf's Major Novels: The Fables of Anon
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.

Fleishman, Avrom.
Virginia Woolf: A Critical Reading
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.

Froula, Christine.
Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilisation, Modernity
. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005.

Guiguet, Jean.
Virginia Woolf and Her Works
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1965.

Harper, Howard.
Between Language and Silence: The Novels of Virginia Woolf
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Hussey, Mark.
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‘s
Fiction
. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1986.

——, ed.
Virginia Woolf and War: Fiction, Reality and Myth
. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991.

Majumdar, Robin, and Allen McLaurin, eds.
Virginia Woolf: The Critical Heritage
. Boston: Routledge, 1975.

Marcus, Jane.
Art and Anger: Reading Like a Woman
. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1988.

———, ed.
New Feminist Essays on Virginia Woolf
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

———, ed.
Virginia Woolf: A Feminist Slant
. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983.

———, ed.
Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury: A Centenary Celebration
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

———.
Virginia Woolf and the Languages of Patriarchy
. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

McLaurin, Allen.
Virginia Woolf: The Echoes Enslaved
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1973.

McNees, Eleanor, ed.
Virginia Woolf: Critical Assessments
. 4 vols. New York: Roudedge, 1994.

Minow-Pinkney, Makiko.
Virginia Woolf and the Problem of the Subject: Feminine Writing in the Major Novels
. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1987.

Phillips, Kathy J.
Virginia Woolf Against Empire
. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

Roe, Sue, and Susan Sellers, eds.
The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Ruotolo, Lucio.
The Interrupted Moment: A View of Virginia Woolf's Novels
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986.

Silver, Brenda R.
Virginia Woolf Icon
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

Zwerdling, Alex.
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. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

(in addition to the works cited in the introduction)

 

Barrett, Eileen. “Unmasking Lesbian Passion: The Inverted World of
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Bishop, Edward. “Writing, Speech, and Silence in
Mrs. Dalloway
.”
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Bloom, Harold, ed.
Clarissa Dalloway
. Major Literary Characters Series. New York: Chelsea House, 1990.

Bradshaw, David. ‘“Vanished, Like Leaves': The Military, Elegy and Italy in
Mrs. Dalloway.” Woolf Studies Annual 8
(2002): 107–25.

Cunningham, Michael.
The Hours
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Edwards, Lee R. “War and Roses: The Politics of
Mrs. Dalloway
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. Edited by Arlyn Diamond and Lee R. Edwards, 161–77. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1977.

Froula, Christine. “Mrs. Dalloway's Postwar Elegy: Women, War, and the Art of Mourning.”
Modernism/Modernity
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Henke, Suzette. “
Mrs. Dalloway
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. Edited by Jane Marcus, 125–47. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

Hoffmann, Charles G. “From Short Story to Novel: The Manuscript Revisions of Virginia Woolf's
Mrs. Dalloway
.”
Modern Fiction Studies
14.2 (Summer 1968): 171–86.

Jamison, Kay R.
Touched with Fire: Manic Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament
. New York: Free Press, 1993.

Lippincott, Robin.
Mr. Dalloway: A Novella
. Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 1999.

Low, Lisa. “‘Thou Canst Not Touch the Freedom of My Mind': Fascism and Disruptive Female Consciousness in
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.” In
Virginia Woolf and Fascism
. Edited by Merry M. Pawlowski, 92–104. Houndmills, UK: Palgrave, 2001.

Miller, J. Hillis.
Fiction and Repetition: Seven English Novels
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982.

Prose, Francine, ed.
The Mrs. Dalloway Reader
. By Virginia Woolf et al. Orlando: Harcourt, 2003.

Richter, Harvena. “The
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21.3 (Fall 1989): 305–19.

Scott, Bonnie Kime.
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. 2 vols. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995.

Squier, Susan.
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. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.

Tate, Trudi. “
Mrs Dalloway
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Textual Practice
8.3 (Winter 1994): 467–86.