Woolf also follows the fortunes of Septimus Warren Smith, a young soldier returned from the war severely shell-shocked. As Clarissa navigates the streets of the capital, she remembers being the same age as her daughter Elizabeth and reminisces about her past life and loves in her country home of Boughton. In a nutshell, Mrs Dalloway follows one day in the life of the ageing socialite Clarissa Dalloway, as she meanders through the streets of London in 1923, planning a party for that evening. With Mrs Dalloway I discovered that classic literature can be a pleasure from cover to cover. As a teenager, I often tried reading classic novels, but I could never escape the idea that novels were “weighty” and “hard work”. I first read Mrs Dalloway when I was about 15 years old, and from the first page I became convinced that if this was English Literature then English Literature was the subject I wanted to study. Review by Alexandra (English Language and Literature)
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