Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street
"Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" is a short story Virginia Woolf published in The Dial in July 1923, and the seed of her novel Mrs Dalloway, which appeared two years later. On a June morning Clarissa Dalloway, a member of political society, walks from Westminster to Bond Street to buy a pair of gloves. The story stays almost entirely within her mind as she goes: the chimes of Big Ben, passing acquaintances, memories of her girlhood and of the war dead, thoughts about age, class, the city and the shop girl who serves her, until a sudden noise outside breaks the scene. It shows Woolf trying out the method of her later fiction in a few pages. It is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, with the opening pages free.
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Yes. Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street by Virginia Woolf is a public-domain work. Vinteuil offers a carefully prepared digital edition made for comfortable reading on screen.
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About 13 min of reading, at an average reading pace. Your place is saved automatically when you are signed in, so you can read in several sittings and on several devices.
What kind of book is Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street?
Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street by Virginia Woolf is filed under "Short Stories" in the Vinteuil library.
