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Virginia Woolf 1882-1941 - Coggle Diagram
Virginia Woolf 1882-1941
life
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from 1915 she attempted suicide, many times
born in London, she grew up in an intellectual family
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works
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1929 "A Room of One's Own", very important for the feminist movement
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general features
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description through different characters' point of views,
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Mrs Dalloway, plot
during the day she meets characters like Septimus Smith (mentaly ill man who committs suicide), Sir Bradshaw (Septimus's doctor) and Peter Walsh, Clarissa's first love.
using many flashbacks we connect everyone's past and at the end they all gather at the party, and talk about the day.
it takes place on a single ordinary day in june of 1923, in London, in which Clarissa Dalloway gives a formal party at her house.
style
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3rd person narration in which past and present, speech and silence mix together
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themes
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adjusting to the social changes (news paper, cars...)