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Mrs. Dalloway
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  • Michael Cunningham's novel The Hours (1998) is a reworking of Virginia Woolf's modern classic, Mrs. Dalloway, in which a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War disintegrates and commits suicide.†  (source)
  • "I love walking in London," said Mrs. Dalloway.†  (source)
  • In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, her damaged Great War veteran, Septimus Warren Smith, commits suicide because his enemies are coming to get him.†  (source)
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  • She was Lady Angela, attending Princess Mary, when in came Mrs. Dalloway.†  (source)
  • "Mrs. Dalloway will see me," said the elderly man in the hall.†  (source)
  • But Miss Kilman did not hate Mrs. Dalloway.†  (source)
  • She despised Mrs. Dalloway from the bottom of her heart.†  (source)
  • "We are shockingly late, dear Mrs. Dalloway, we hardly dared to come in," she said.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.†  (source)
  • It is probably the Queen, thought Mrs. Dalloway, coming out of Mulberry's with her flowers; the Queen.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Dalloway raised her hand to her eyes, and, as the maid shut the door to, and she heard the swish of Lucy's skirts, she felt like a nun who has left the world and feels fold round her the familiar veils and the response to old devotions.†  (source)
  • Dear!" said Clarissa, and Lucy shared as she meant her to her disappointment (but not the pang); felt the concord between them; took the hint; thought how the gentry love; gilded her own future with calm; and, taking Mrs. Dalloway's parasol, handled it like a sacred weapon which a Goddess, having acquitted herself honourably in the field of battle, sheds, and placed it in the umbrella stand.†  (source)
  • But, said Mrs. Dalloway, she had enough on her hands already, quite enough of her own to do without that.†  (source)
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