The Hours: The British Museum Manuscript of Mrs. Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf, Helen M. Wussow (Editor)

This is a transcription of the holograph version of Virginia Woolf's fourth novel. Woolf worked on the manuscript between June 1923 and October 1924 while, at the same time, composing essays for "Common Reader 1". The central text is from three manuscript notebooks in the British Library; also included in the volume are transcriptions of manuscript material from the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library. Helen Wussow's critical introduction provides a provocative reading of "The Hours", the process of writing, and contemporary theories of textual editing. "The Hours": The British Museum Manuscript of "Mrs. Dalloway" is a major contribution to the study of Virginia Woolf, modern literature, and the politics of editing.

Author Biography: Helen M. Wussow is Associate Professor of English and Interim Assistant Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at The University of Memphis.

528 pages, Hardcover

First published December 30, 1996

About the author

(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.

During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."

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