Mrs. Dalloway : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Virginia Woolf ; edited by Anne E. Fernald.

"This Norton Critical Edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is based on the first American edition from 1925. The novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a married, high society woman in London as she prepares to host a party. Set in the aftermath of World War I, the nove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 (Author)
Other Authors: Fernald, Anne E. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Norton critical edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES
  • Early Writings
  • Hyde Park Gate News
  • Cristmas Number, vol. i, No. 51 (December 1891)
  • [Mrs Leslie Stephen], vol. ii, No. 25 (July 4, 1892)
  • [The Dog], vol. ii, No. 43 (November 7, 1892)
  • Early Diary Entry
  • Giggleswick 1906
  • Diary
  • February 1, 1915 [A violent explosion]
  • December 14, 1917 [A quiet man]
  • April 9, 1918 [My father was a German]
  • May 1, 1918 [The Equator]
  • May 28, 1918 [An enormous pocket knife]
  • June 8, 1920 [A complete case of servant's hysteria]
  • September 15, 1920 [Especially the satire of the Dalloways]
  • October 25, 1920 [A little strip of pavement over an abyss]
  • April 18, 1921 [Lunching with a cabinet minister]
  • June 2, 1921 [Actually under this roof]
  • October 4, 1922 [I like reading my own writing]
  • October 8, 1922 [Kitty Maxse's death]
  • June 19, 1923 [Feeling things deeply]
  • August 6, 1923 [Hollyhocks, decapitated, swam in a bowl]
  • April 5, 1924 [Angelica's accident]
  • November 18, 1924 [The mad chapters of Mrs D]
  • January 6, 1925 [Proofs will come next week]
  • April 19, 1925 [Mrs Dalloway is a success]
  • June 18, 1925 [Lytton does not like Mrs Dalloway]
  • Letters
  • To Emma Vaughan, April 1899 [How I do love London]
  • To Thoby Stephen, November 5, 1901 [No true Shakespearian]
  • To Madge Vaughan, early January 1905 [Teaching in the Waterloo Road]
  • To Violet Dickinson, mid-February 1905 [Dr Savage's dinner]
  • To Violet Dickinson, October 1, 1907 [The poet Keats]
  • To Vanessa Bell, August 20, 1908 [I have no wish to perish]
  • To T. S. Eliot, April 14, 1922 [As for my own story]
  • To Gerald Brenan, December 25, 1922 [You said you were very wretched]
  • To Vita Sackville-West, August 19, 1924 [London and the marshes]
  • Selected Short Stories
  • Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street
  • The Introduction
  • The Man Who Loved His Kind
  • Selected Nonfiction
  • Review of Dorothy Richardson's The Tunnel (1919)
  • From 22 Hyde Park Gate (1920)
  • From Old Bloomsbury (1922)
  • On Not Knowing Greek (1925)
  • Modern Fiction (1925)
  • Introduction to Modern Library Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (1928)
  • Literary Sources
  • Homer
  • From The Odyssey, Book 5 (late-eighth-to late-seventh-century B.C.E.)
  • King James Bible
  • From The Book of Ruth (c. fourth century B.C.E.) / William Shakespeare
  • From Richard II (1595)
  • From Othello (1604)
  • From Cymbeline (1610) / Alexander Pope
  • From The Rape of the Lock (1717) / John Keats
  • From Ode to a Nightingale (1819) / Hermann Von Gilm
  • Allerseelen
  • All Souls' Day (c. 1863) / H. G. Wells
  • From Ann Veronica: A Modern Romance (1909) / Rupert Brooke
  • The Soldier (1915) / T. S. Eliot
  • From The Waste Land (1922) / Katherine Mansfield
  • The Garden Party (1922)
  • Historical Contexts / W. H. R. Rivers
  • The Repression of War Experience (1917) / May Sinclair
  • The Novels of Dorothy Richardson (1918) / Ted Bogacz
  • [The War Office Committee of Enquiry into "Shell-Shock"] (1989) / Trudi Tate
  • [Mrs Dalloway and the Armenians] (1998) / Alison Light
  • From Mrs. Woolf and the Servants (2007) / Elizabeth Outka
  • [Mrs. Dalloway and the Influenza Pandemic] (2015)
  • Criticism
  • Early Reviews / Anonymous
  • A Long, Long Chapter [Review of Mrs. Dalloway] (1925) / Anonymous
  • A Novelist's Experiment [Review of Mrs. Dalloway] (1925) / E. W. Hawkins
  • The Stream of Consciousness Novel (1926)
  • Recent Criticism / Christine Froula
  • Sex, Lies, and Selling Out: Women and Civilization's Discontents (2002) / Molly Hite
  • [Tonal Cues and Character in Mrs. Dalloway] (2010) / Sara Ahmed
  • From Feminist Killjoys (2010) / Paul K. Saint-Amour
  • Mrs. Dalloway and the Gaze of Total War (2015) / Celia Marshik
  • [Miss Kilman's Mackintosh] (2016).