ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf’s best-known novels.

Detailed explanation-2: -In her fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925), the English modernist writer Virginia Woolf took on the subject of the English middle classes in the aftermath of the 1914–18 war.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dalloway, novel by Virginia Woolf published in 1925. It examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner married to a member of Parliament. Mrs. Dalloway is essentially plotless; what action there is takes place mainly in the characters’ consciousness.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mrs. Dalloway was published in Britain by the Hogarth Press on May 14, 1925 with a dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, and in the United States by Harcourt, Brace & Company on the same day, with the same dust jacket.