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Dalloway and Tess Context
Tess Context
Capitalism in Victorian Britain
in 1870 there was 5 capital crimes
public hanging abolished in Britain in 1868
when hardy was 18, he witnessed public hanging of Martha Brown, a working class woman who murdered her violent husband in 1856
Mechanisation of agriculture
used to use flail or scythe
1970 invention of threshing machine
Victorian morality
Queen Victorian ruled the British Empire from 1837 to 1901, offering a 'perfect' role model for women and motherhood.
'sexual' norm to be a virgin until marriage/ chaste
'A Pure Woman'
Literary
Charles Origin of Species written in 1859
Fin De Siècle trend towards pessimism and religious scepticism
Post Darwinian society
Legislation
1885 Criminal Law Amendment raised age of consent to 16 in attempt to limit child prostitution
1870 education act
Authorital
Hardy amanuensis (women were not educated enough to write letters/ fill out documents)
Unconventional relationship - a number of Emma Giffords (Hardys first wife) writings were burnt - they could have revealed the truth about troubled relationship
Family history - Mother came from wealthy background, father a stonemason
Dalloway Context
Literary
1889 Henri Bergson Time and Free Will. Depicting objective time such as clocks, watches, calendars vs lived time through memory. time that is lived, felt, acted.
1906 John Galsworthy The Man of Property - man rapes his wife after finding out about the affair.
1929 VW A Room of Ones Own
1918 Marie Stopes, Married Love - necessary for foreplay in sexual intercouse, birth control, sexual equality of pleasure
Inspired by James Joyce 'Ulysses' in 1922
Historical
1884 - prime meridian conference designates Greenwich as the Prime Meridian for timekeeping on planet Earth
1924 Ramsay comes to power - first labour prime minister
1914 - 1918 World War One
1916 British Summer Time
1918 Representation of the Peoples Act
Authorial
1886 onwards - between the age of 6 and 18, Virginia Stephen was abused by her half brothers Gerald and George Duckworth. She wrote about her experience in a 'Sketch of the Past' (published long after he death)
1891 Laura Stephen institutionalised
1895 Julia Duckworth dies. Aged 13 VS has her first mental breakdown
1904 Leslie Stephen died. Virginia Stephen attempts suicide
1909 accepts Lytton Strachey marriage but calls off within 24 hours
1910 Virginia Stephen meets Roger Fry in the Bloomsbury group who held an exhibition on 'Manet and Post Impressionism'
VW writes in her diary her aim is to critique the social system
Julia Stephen first husband died very suddenly.