#mrs.dalloway

[macrolit]

This vintage Modern Library edition of Mrs. Dalloway was published just a few years after she wrote this introduction! Btw, it’s also Virginia Woolf’s birthday (b. 25 January 1882). Check out my new IG post to see the cover of this vintage edition and hear some of my thoughts on Mrs. Dalloway. 

[contentmlm]

“friendship”

homegoing, quey + cudjo, yaa gyasi / maurice, maurice + alec, e.m forster / giovanni’s room, david + giovanni, james baldwin / brokeback mountain, ennis + jack, annie proulx / tin man, ellis + michael, sarah winman / mrs.dalloway, septimus + evans, virginia woolf

[tulinkiper]

Happy Birthday Virginia Woolf!

[calmdown-itiswhatitis]

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[macrolit]

Current read.  How about you?

[atanaslu]

Something I did for my adorable author Woolf.

[subduedpassions03]

“Death was defiance. Death was an attempt to communicate, people feeling the impossibility of reaching centre which mystically evaded them; closeness drew apart; rapture faded; one was alone. There was an embrace in death” - Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

[my-effervescent-perhaps]

Then came the most exquisite moment of her whole life passing a stone urn with flowers in it. Sally stopped; picked a flower; kissed her on the lips. The whole world might have turned upside down! The others disappeared; there she was alone with Sally. And she felt that she had been given a present, wrapped up, and told just to keep it, not to look at it—a diamond, something infinitely precious, wrapped up, which, as they walked (up and down, up and down), she uncovered, or the radiance burnt through, the revelation, the religious feeling!

Virginia Woolf, from Mrs. Dalloway