Mrs. Galloway

by Virginia Woolf

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with last-minute details of a party that she is having that evening. As she prepares her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.

11 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 21, 2021

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."

Reviews

[Joan · Rating 3 out of 5]

In truth, I didn't finish this book, despite its brevity. Woolf's style is very dense as evidenced by the plot that occurs in just one day, following a woman's preparation for a party. The event's trivialty contrasts with the hostess' obvious intelligence, by which Woolf illustrates the inferior role of women in society at turn of the century.

[Katherine Haas · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this story .. what one says and what one thinks is often quite different ! I loved the way Virginia Wolff included both in this story , the ending however , disappointed me . I had looked forward to a totally different ending .

[Hilary]

Had to admit defeat on this one, after ploughing on to half way.
Too much detail about characters in which I didn’t have any interest, unfortunately.