Virginia Woolf (Paperback)

In 1961, when I first read Mrs. Dalloway as a student at Bryn Mawr College, Virginia Woolf's place in twentieth-century fiction was still under-estimated and her feminist concerns were largely unrecognized. My lecture notes begin: 'March 8: Virginia Woolf. More limited intellectually than James Joyce. Interested in the moment and in certain philosophic theories of time.
In Mrs. Dalloway we are immediately confronted with Clar- issa and must face haunting questions concerning her. Has she made the right decisions in life? Is she a support to her husband?' Clearly these ladylike questions were the ones our professor believed should haunt respectable young women thinking about their own decisions in life.