In her diaries, during the writing of Mrs. Through this act of digging out ‘beautiful caves’ behind her characters, Woolf moved away from traditional, realist forms of characterisation. As Elaine Showalter points out in an introduction to the novel, Woolf struggled with characterisation: ‘The main problem Woolf faced in the novel was that of making her characters four-dimensional: getting the element of time into the book through the characters’ memories’. The later title places an emphasis on the present, in which an established married woman of means plans to give a party.įor Woolf, writing Mrs. Woolf uses the working title, The Hours, which she would eventually replace with Mrs. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment. I should say a good deal about The Hours, & my discovery how I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters, I think that gives exactly what I want humanity, humour, depth. In a diary entry from 30 August 1923, Woolf writes: Dalloway, published in the spring of 1925. In this tale of early 1920s London, the supporting characters give us an insight into the consequences of the First World War.Īmong the more notable English novels from the inter-war years, one might consider Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. but it is a novel that offers a measure of hope: hope after loss, hope after war.’ Dennis Recio SJ thinks that you really must read this novel, in which Virginia Woolf broke new literary ground with her experimental, modernist writing.
Mrs Dalloway ‘is not a novel of happy endings.
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