![]() ![]() Like Ulysses (no 46 in this series), it takes place in the course of a single day, probably 13 June 1923. Woolf is one of the giants of this series, and Mrs Dalloway, her fourth novel, is one of her greatest achievements, a book whose afterlife continues to inspire new generations of writers and readers. ![]() She would innovate ( To the Lighthouse) she would flirt ( Orlando) she would provoke ( A Room of One's Own) and, privately, would dazzle herself and her friends with a stream of letters (and diaries), all of which reveal a writer's mind at full tilt. In the next 15-odd years, before her suicide, Woolf would transform the English literary landscape forever. She might have been speaking about herself. I n the spring of 1924, Virginia Woolf, then in her 40s, gave a famous lecture, later published as the essay Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown, in which she declared that "we are trembling on the verge of one of the great ages of English literature". ![]()
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