Facts about Mrs. Dalloway

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   Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel The Hours drew directly from Mrs. Dalloway, reimagining its structure and themes across three interconnected storylines.

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   Published in 1925 by Hogarth Press, Mrs. Dalloway was partly inspired by Woolf's own experiences with mental illness and nervous breakdowns.

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   Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran, serves as Mrs. Dalloway's parallel protagonist, experiencing a mental breakdown simultaneously with Clarissa's day in London.

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   The stream-of-consciousness technique in Mrs. Dalloway captures over eight hours of Clarissa's internal thoughts through approximately 120,000 words without traditional dialogue formatting.

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   Virginia Woolf completed Mrs. Dalloway in 1924, publishing it that same year as a modernist novel structured around a single day in June in post-World War I London.

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