![]() ![]() ![]() Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.Ĭunningham’s section on Virginia Woolf in fact comes to an end with Woolf writing that very sentence. We are of course in the realm of Mrs Dalloway with a re-enactment of its famous opening line: She “has flowers to buy and a party to give.” It will be a celebration for her ex lover Richard who has won a prestigious poetry prize. On a summer’s day in 1990, Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her Greenwich village apartment. She makes a cake for her husband’s birthday, leaves her son with a childminder and escapes to a hotel to read Mrs Dalloway. ![]() In 1949, Sally Brown, a young wife and mother fights her own feelings of despair at the monotony of her life in a Los Angeles suburb. Her working title is The Hours ( it will be published as Mrs Dalloway.) She persuades her husband that her feelings of depression will be eased by relinquishing their Richmond country life for the hubbub of London. In June 1923, Virginia Woolf wrestles with the opening of her new novel. In The Hours, Cunningham weaves together the lives of three women separated by decades and geography, telling their story through the events of just one day for each person. ![]()
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