Ranked #2 in Modernism, Ranked #3 in 1920S — see more rankings.
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Charles Fernyhough Woolf is interested in the intersections between minds. She’s trying to show how minds bleed into each other. (Source)
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Maria Sveland It’s one of the saddest books I’ve ever read. I could really identify with Clarissa, this empty, poor person who is going out to find some flowers for a party. At the same moment, we are following her out into the beautiful morning as the story starts. It’s clear very soon that Clarissa is a woman who has lost her soul among all the duties and conventions of a boring marriage. That loss is so overwhelming and confusing that she loses contact even with her own body. She describes feeling young, but at the same time really old. I don’t know why I identified with her so strongly. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Mrs. Dalloway is ranked in the following categories:
- #33 in 20th Century
- #81 in Abstract
- #91 in Class
- #23 in English Writer
- #96 in Feminism
- #79 in Flower
- #69 in Gilmore Girls
- #16 in Graduate School
- #13 in London
- #97 in Modern
- #94 in Modern Classic
- #3 in Modernist
- #60 in Suicide
- #54 in Time
- #35 in UK
- #12 in University
- #46 in Women
- #79 in World War I