Read Mrs. Dalloway (Annotated) Online
Authors: Virginia Woolf
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English Language Notes
25.2 (December 1987): 49â57.
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Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf. Edited by G. Patton Wright. The Definitive Collected Edition. London: Hogarth Press, 1990.
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1 Woolf's early diary is published as
A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897â1909
, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska. A 1909 notebook discovered in 2002 has been published as
Carlyle's House and Other Sketches
, edited by David Bradshaw (London: Hesperus, 2003).
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1 Woolf composed this introduction for a 1928 edition of her novel published by Random House for the Modern Library of the World's Best Books edition. It is the only commentary of its sort that she wrote for any of her works.
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2 Having found that evidence from actual newspaper accounts does not correspond to what is in newspaper accounts of cricket matches read by characters in the novel, David Bradshaw argues that
Mrs. Dalloway
is set on an
imaginary
Wednesday in mid-June 1923 (182â83). Arguments for the actual dates of June 13 and June 20 have been made by Harvena Richter and Morris Beja, respectively.
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3 Woolf refers here to one of three “Lives of the Obscure,” published in the American edition of
The Common Reader
. “Miss Ormerod” is an imaginative rendering of scenes from the life of Eleanor Ormerod, a specialist on destructive insects.