Mrs Dalloway - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

Mrs Dalloway also appears in Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, as well as five of her short stories, in which she hosts dinner parties to which the main subject of the narrative is invited:

• "The New Dress" - a self-conscious guest has a new dress made for the event.
• "The Introduction" - whose main character is Lily Everit
• "Together and Apart" - Mrs Dalloway introduces the main protagonists
• "The Man Who Loved His Kind" in which her husband Richard invites a school friend who finds the evening uncomfortable in the extreme.
• "A Summing Up" - a couple meet in her garden.

The stories (except for "The Introduction") all appear in the 1944 collection A Haunted House and Other Short Stories, and also in the 1973 collection Mrs Dalloway's Party.

• The Hours is a novel of 1998, and a film released in 2002, portraying Virginia Woolf while writing Mrs Dalloway, and its impact in women's lives in the 1950s and the present day.