Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short-Story Sequence

by Virginia Woolf

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"Mrs Dalloway's Party is a forgotten classic, and an enchanting piece of work by one of our most acclaimed twentieth century writers. A sequence of seven short stories that were written by Woolf in the same period as Mrs Dalloway - the opening story in the collection was originally intended to be the first chapter of the novel - they beautifully showcase the author's fascination with parties and with all the emotions and anxieties which surround these social occasions. In 'The New Dress' a nervous young woman frets that her fellow guests are laughing at her yellow silk dress while 'Together and Apart' explores what happens to two people meeting for the first time in Clarissa Dalloway's drawing room. In this collection of stories Virginia Woolf created a microcosm of society out of the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the heightened emotions of the party."… (more)

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kaggsy | Feb 4, 2015 |

Shallow.

I've never been able to see what was so great about Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, the premiere female authors of the Bloomsbury Set. Two women from the upper class who wrote books about upper class women who did nothing at all except have minor angsts or affairs which they wrote about with excellent powers of description but no introspection at all. The men were different, there were some very great writers amongst them - Lytton Strachey and the wonderful E.M. Forster, for example.

Really, the Bloomsbury set were famous for their casual sexual mores, their artistic inclination, their atheism and general opposition to the traditions of the times, all attitudes afforded to them by their aristocratic status and great wealth. Their time came and went, and I can't think of a good reason to revisit it. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Woolf, Virginia	Author	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Oeser, Hans-Christian	Herausgeber	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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While working on the Mrs Dalloway MSS, in order primarily to establish a first draft version of that novel, I became aware of Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with a particular social occasion, the party. - Introduction

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself.

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"Mrs Dalloway's Party is a forgotten classic, and an enchanting piece of work by one of our most acclaimed twentieth century writers. A sequence of seven short stories that were written by Woolf in the same period as Mrs Dalloway - the opening story in the collection was originally intended to be the first chapter of the novel - they beautifully showcase the author's fascination with parties and with all the emotions and anxieties which surround these social occasions. In 'The New Dress' a nervous young woman frets that her fellow guests are laughing at her yellow silk dress while 'Together and Apart' explores what happens to two people meeting for the first time in Clarissa Dalloway's drawing room. In this collection of stories Virginia Woolf created a microcosm of society out of the excitement, the fluctuations of mood and temper and the heightened emotions of the party."

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