"history and backstory, which otherwise might appear quite trivial—buying flowers, baking a cake and such things. Cunningham's novel also uses the device in Woolf's ""Mrs. Dalloway"" of placing the action of the novel within the space of one day. In Woolf's ""Mrs. Dalloway"" it is one day in the life of the central character Clarissa Dalloway. In Cunningham's book it is one day in the life of each of the three central characters; Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown and Virginia Woolf herself. Through this prism, Cunningham attempts, as did Woolf, to show the beauty and profundity of every day—even the most"
"in her illness, on the one hand an impediment, on the other something she visualised as an essential part of who she was, and a necessary condition of her art. When she was able to control her illness, it informed her work, such as the character of Septimus Warren Smith in ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925), who like Woolf was haunted by the dead, and ultimately takes his own life rather than be admitted to a sanitorium. Leonard Woolf relates how during the 30 years they were married they consulted many doctors in the Harley Street area, and although they were given"
"London. In 1951, troubled Los Angeles housewife Laura Brown escapes from her conventional life by reading ""Mrs Dalloway"". In 2001, New Yorker Clarissa Vaughan is the embodiment of the novel's title character, as she spends the day preparing for a party she is hosting in honor of her former lover and friend Richard, a poet and author living with AIDS who is to receive a major literary award. Richard tells Clarissa that he has stayed alive for her sake and that the award is meaningless because he didn't get it sooner, until he was on the brink of death. She"
"of 59. During the interwar period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary and artistic society. She published her first novel, ""The Voyage Out"", in 1915, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her best-known works include the novels ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925), ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927) and """" (1928). She is also known for her essays, including ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929), in which she wrote the much-quoted dictum, ""A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."" Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s"
"Golliwog The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century and usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy called the ""golliwog"", and had great popularity in the UK and Australia into the 1970s. The doll is characterised by black skin, eyes rimmed in white, clown lips and frizzy hair. Though home-made golliwogs were sometimes female, the golliwog was generally male. For this reason, in the period following World War II,"
"circulated a picture of it on Facebook and Twitter. The display was only in one store, as a franchisee can ""stock and sell products at their discretion"", however Terry White Chemists banned the sale of the doll in any franchise afterwards. Golliwog The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in children's books in the late 19th century and usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a children's toy called the ""golliwog"", and had great popularity in the UK and"
"birthday party. In 1999 New York City, Clarissa Vaughan plans a party to celebrate a major literary award received by her good friend and former lover, the poet Richard, who is dying of an AIDS-related illness. The situations of all three characters mirror situations experienced by Woolf's Clarissa Dalloway in ""Mrs. Dalloway"", with Clarissa Vaughan being a very literal modern-day version of Woolf's character. Like Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Vaughan goes on a journey to buy flowers while reflecting on the minutiae of the day around her and later prepares to throw a party. Clarissa Dalloway and Clarissa Vaughan also both"
"with the Bloomsbury Group, particularly its tendency (informed by G. E. Moore, among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism, it is not a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals. Woolf's fiction has been studied for its insight into many themes including war, shell shock, witchcraft, and the role of social class in contemporary modern British society. In the postwar ""Mrs. Dalloway"" (1925), Woolf addresses the moral dilemma of war and its effects and provides an authentic voice for soldiers returning from World War I, suffering from shell shock, in the person of Septimus Smith. In ""A Room of One's Own"" (1929) Woolf"
"in British cinemas on Valentine's Day that year. Critical reaction to the film was largely positive, with nine Academy Award nominations for ""The Hours"" including Best Picture, and a win for Nicole Kidman for Best Actress. With the exception of the opening and final scenes, which depict the 1941 suicide by drowning of Virginia Woolf in the River Ouse, the action takes place within the span of a single day in three different decades and alternates between them throughout the film. In 1923, Virginia has begun writing the book ""Mrs Dalloway"" in her home in the town of Richmond outside"
"individual in question is often unable to cry, even if he or she wants to. In other cases, the person may seem fully present but operate merely intellectually when emotional connection would be appropriate. This may present an extreme difficulty in giving or receiving empathy and can be related to the spectrum of narcissistic personality disorder. A fictional description of the experience of emotional detachment experienced with dissociation and depersonalization was given by Virginia Woolf in ""Mrs Dalloway"". In that novel the multifaceted sufferings of a war veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, with post-traumatic stress disorder (as this condition was later"
"occurrence is prominent in the structures and character relationships of two further novels by Cunningham, Specimen Days and A Home at the End of the World. The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling"
"that were applied to her nose making her almost unrecognisable playing the author during her time in 1920s England, and her bouts with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel, ""Mrs. Dalloway"". The film earned positive notices and several nominations, including for an Academy Award for Best Picture. ""The New York Times"" wrote that, ""Ms. Kidman, in a performance of astounding bravery, evokes the savage inner war waged by a brilliant mind against a system of faulty wiring that transmits a searing, crazy static into her brain"". Kidman won numerous critics' awards, including her first BAFTA, third"
"decided it should be the company's mascot, which it remained until 2002. The prolific Enid Blyton chose to depict golliwogs in a number of her stories as naughty individuals. Other authors took a similar tack. The name ""golliwog"" came to be used as a degrading term for anyone who wasn't white-skinned, and new origins were suggested for the word. Florence Upton despaired, 'I am frightened when I read the fearsome etymology some deep, dark minds can see in his name.' Florence Kate Upton Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author"
"treatment of the mentally ill with her larger argument, which is the criticism of society's class structure. Her use of Septimus as the stereotypically traumatised veteran is her way of showing that there were still reminders of the First World War in London in 1923. These ripples affect Mrs. Dalloway and readers spanning generations. Shell shock, or post traumatic stress disorder, is an important addition to the early 20th century canon of post-war British literature. There are similarities in Septimus' condition to Woolf's struggles with bipolar disorder. Both hallucinate that birds sing in Greek, and Woolf once attempted to throw"
"during a Lewis Carroll-themed party. Marbot is thought to be one of the models for Brigadier Gerard in the short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. In Virginia Woolf's ""Mrs. Dalloway"", there are several mentions of Clarissa (Mrs. Dalloway) reading Marbot's memoirs. In R. F. Delderfield's ""To Serve Them All My Days"". David, the main protagonist, gets comfort from Marbot's memoirs during his time in the trenches, and again on the death of his wife and daughter in a road accident. Marcellin Marbot Jean-Baptiste Antoine Marcellin Marbot (August 18, 1782 – November 16, 1854), French soldier, son of General Jean-Antoine"
"noted in the letters of Vanessa and Clive Bell, and Virginia Woolf. In her novel ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925), Woolf bases the character of Rezia Warren Smith on Lopokova. E. M. Forster would later write in contrition about ""Lydia Keynes, every whose word should be recorded"": ""How we all used to underestimate her"". Keynes thought that the pursuit of money for its own sake was a pathological condition, and that the proper aim of work is to provide leisure. He wanted shorter working hours and longer holidays for all. Keynes was interested in literature in general and drama in particular and"
"prepare for the party. Meanwhile, two hours have passed since Virginia began writing the start of 'Mrs. Dalloway.' Reflecting on the uncertainty of the artistic process, she decides she has written enough for the day and is worried that if she continues her fragile mental state will become unbalanced; the onset of which she describes as her ""headache."" Virginia goes to the printing room (her husband Leonard has set up a printing press, the renowned Hogarth Press which first published Sigmund Freud in English and poet T. S. Eliot) where Leonard and an assistant, Ralph are at work. She senses"
"which there was plentiful anecdotal accounts, yet no consensus-agreed name nor any scientific data or explanation. Austrian writer Clemens J. Setz suggests that a passage from the novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"" authored by Virginia Woolf and published in 1925, describes something distinctly comparable. In the passage from ""Mrs. Dalloway"" cited by Setz, a nursemaid speaks to the man who is her patient 'deeply, softly, like a mellow organ, but with a roughness in her voice like a grasshopper's, which rasped his spine deliciously and sent running up into his brain waves of sound'. According to Setz, this citation generally alludes to"
"The New Dress (short story) ""The New Dress"" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf. It was written in 1924 whilst Woolf was writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" (which was published the following year). It is possible that it was originally to have been a chapter in the novel; the two share some characters and events. It was not published until 1927 when it appeared in the May edition of the New York magazine, ""The Forum"". It appeared again in ""A Haunted House and Other Short Stories"" published in 1944, and in ""Mrs. Dalloway's Party"" published in 1973. The"
"a series of letters. The question and answer format creates a sense of dialogue and debate on the politically charged issues the essay tackles, rather than just presenting simple polemical diatribes on each topic. The principle of dialogue is one that informs much of Woolf's work, and is also seen in her novels when she gives voice to different classes and marginalised groups in society through a diversity of characterisations. For example, the sky-writing scene in ""Mrs. Dalloway"" includes characters with a variety of class-influenced dialects. The ""guineas"" of the book's title are themselves a badge of social class, the"
"and Jollities""; there were Soapey Sponge and Mrs. Asquith's ""Memoirs"" and ""Big Game Shooting in Nigeria"", all spread open."" From ""Mrs Dalloway"" by Virginia Woolf. Surtees was not among the most popular novelists in the nineteenth century. His work lacked the self-conscious idealism, sentimentality and moralism of the Victorian era; the historian Norman Gash asserted that ""His leading male characters were coarse or shady; his leading ladies dashing and far from virtuous; his outlook on society satiric to the point of cynicism."" Thomas Seccombe, writing in 1898 for the ""Dictionary of National Biography"", said that it was the illustrations of"
"as Gail Platt. Thelma Barlow Thelma Barlow (née Pigott; born 19 June 1929) is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera ""Coronation Street"" and as Dolly Bellfield in the sitcom ""Dinnerladies"". Thelma Barlow was born in 1929 in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the younger of two daughters. Her father, Tommy, a cabinet maker, died of pneumonia five weeks before her birth, and Barlow was brought up by her mother Margaret. Barlow has an elder sister, Veda. During her childhood the family moved to Huddersfield, West Riding"
"ineffectual idiots or potential rapists. However, critical support for the film was overwhelming, and it was honored with a number of international awards, including a Golden Calf and a Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. Her next film was ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1997), based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, with a cast that included Vanessa Redgrave, Rupert Graves, and Natascha McElhone, the film earned a number of international honors, including an Evening Standard British Film Award. She followed that up with ""The Luzhin Defence"" (2000), based upon a novel by Vladimir Nabokov. The film tells the story of the love"
"The Hours (novel) The Hours is a 1998 novel written by Michael Cunningham. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the 1999 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was later made into an Oscar-winning 2002 movie of the same name starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore. The book concerns three generations of women affected by the classic novel ""Mrs. Dalloway"". In Richmond, 1923, author Virginia Woolf is writing ""Mrs. Dalloway"" and struggling with her own mental illness. In 1949 Los Angeles, Mrs. Brown, wife of a World War II veteran, who is reading ""Mrs. Dalloway"", plans her husband's"
"Thelma Barlow Thelma Barlow (née Pigott; born 19 June 1929) is an English television actress and writer, most famous for her roles as Mavis Wilton in the long-running ITV soap opera ""Coronation Street"" and as Dolly Bellfield in the sitcom ""Dinnerladies"". Thelma Barlow was born in 1929 in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, the younger of two daughters. Her father, Tommy, a cabinet maker, died of pneumonia five weeks before her birth, and Barlow was brought up by her mother Margaret. Barlow has an elder sister, Veda. During her childhood the family moved to Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire. Barlow"
"began publishing in the 1920s, and novelists Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), E. M. Forster (1879–1970) (""A Passage to India"", 1924), Evelyn Waugh (1903–66), P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) (who was not a modernist) and D. H. Lawrence. Lawrence's ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"" was published privately in Florence in 1928, though the unexpurgated version was not published in Britain until 1959. Woolf was an influential feminist, and a major stylistic innovator associated with the stream-of-consciousness technique in novels like ""Mrs Dalloway"" (1925) and ""To the Lighthouse"" (1927). Her 1929 essay ""A Room of One's Own"" contains her famous dictum ""A woman must have money"
"taking in all the sights and sounds. The novel jumps to New York City at the end of the 20th century where Clarissa Vaughan (Cunningham's modern Mrs. Dalloway), announcing she will buy the flowers for a party she's hosting later in the day, paraphrases the opening sentence of Woolf's novel. She leaves her partner Sally cleaning their apartment and heads outside into a June morning. Walking to the flower shop, Clarissa enjoys the everyday hustle and bustle of the city. The sights and sounds she encounters serve as jumping-off points for her thoughts about life, her loves and her past."
"he was already in a relationship. Clarissa still wonders what her life might have been if they had tried to stay together. Clarissa enters Richard's apartment building, which she finds squalid. She seems to associate Richard's apartment building with sense of decay and death. She enters Richard's apartment. Richard welcomes Clarissa, calling her ""Mrs. D"" a reference to 'Mrs. Dalloway'. He calls her this because of the shared first name (Clarissa Vaughan, Clarissa Dalloway) but also because of a sense of shared destiny. As Richard's closest friend, Clarissa has taken on the role of a caregiver through Richard's illness. Richard"
"to have a house-wifey bone in her body. Virginia decides to give her character, Clarissa Dalloway, the great skill with servants that she herself does not possess. Having walked back home from Richard's, Clarissa Vaughan enters her apartment. Her partner Sally, a TV producer, is on her way out the door to a lunch meeting with a film star. Suddenly, left alone, Clarissa feels unmoored. She feels as if her home and its comforts are trivial in light of the impending death of her closest friend Richard; compared to a time when she felt most alive and had everything to"
"Elly Griffiths Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa (born 17 August 1963, in London), a British crime novelist. She has written two series as Griffiths to date, one featuring Ruth Galloway, the other featuring Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens and Max Mephisto. After reading English at King's College London, Griffiths worked in publishing for many years. Griffiths' first series features as a main character forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway, who lives in a remote seaside cottage near King's Lynn in Norfolk and teaches at the University of North Norfolk. This character was inspired by Griffiths' husband, who gave"
"Miss Ellie Ewing Eleanor ""Miss Ellie"" Farlow (maiden name Southworth; formerly Ewing) is a fictional character from the CBS soap opera ""Dallas"", a long-running serial centered on the lives of the wealthy Ewing family in Dallas, Texas. Throughout her run, the character remains an important part of the show's structure. Created by writer David Jacobs, the role was originated by screen actress Barbara Bel Geddes in the series pilot episode until her departure in 1984. For the 1984–85 season, Bel Geddes was replaced by movie and television actress Donna Reed. Bel Geddes returned at the start of ""Dallas"" 1985–86 season"
"Dinah Craik Dinah Maria Craik (; born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) (20 April 182612 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the ideals of English middle-class life. Mulock was born at Stoke-on-Trent to Dinah and Thomas Mulock and raised in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, where her father was then minister of a small independent nonconformist congregation. Her childhood and early youth were much affected by his unsettled fortunes, but she obtained a good education from various quarters and felt called to"
"Jean E. Kennard notes that the word ""share"" could easily be read in a Forsteran manner, perhaps as in Forster's ""Maurice"", which shows the word's use in this period to describe homosexual relations. Kennard is one to note Septimus' ""increasing revulsion at the idea of heterosexual sex,"" abstaining from sex with Rezia and feeling that ""the business of copulation was filth to him before the end."" Dutch film director Marleen Gorris made a film version of ""Mrs Dalloway"" in 1997. It was adapted from Woolf's novel by British actress Eileen Atkins and starred Vanessa Redgrave in the title role. The"