A novel following a single June day in 1923 London as Clarissa Dalloway prepares for a party she will host that evening, its narration moving fluidly between her thoughts and those of other characters, including the shell-shocked war veteran Septimus Warren Smith, without conventional chapter breaks. Its continuous, associative rendering of interior thought is among the most fully realized examples of stream of consciousness narration in the English novel.
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Did Mrs Dalloway have a different working title?
Its working title was The Hours.
Yes. Its more abstract working title was The Hours. Because the novel focused mainly on the character of Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf changed the name to Mrs Dalloway before publishing it.
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It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a wealthy woman in post-First World War London.
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Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925.
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Its continuous, associative rendering of interior thought is among the most fully realized examples of stream of consciousness narration in the English novel.
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is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925.
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