1882-1941

Eighteen critical essays on the works of the English writer who experimented with stream-of-consciousness and other innovative techniques.

Explains why three reoccuring characteristics must be present in someone's personality if they are going to become extraordinary and discusses how people can develop those characteristics.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Virginia Woolf is famous for her feminist and modernist fiction and nonfiction, despite being born in 1882 into the British Victorian world of claustrophobic respectability and strict hierarchy. Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925 and the entire novel takes place in London on a June day in 1923. Mrs. Dalloway is shopping for a party she is giving that evening and she meets various characters from her past during the course of the day while she is shopping.

Virginia Woolf's classic essay that explores the reasons why women do not have the same influence, power, and wealth as men do.

Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.