'For there she was.' Mrs Dalloway follows a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway an
upper-class woman in London in June 1923 as she prepares for a party. Clarissa's thoughts and
actions are interwoven with the trauma and bereavement of Septimus Smith a poor young man
suffering from shell-shock in a contrasting narrative that provides poignant insights into the
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present together written and set in the uneasy years immediately after the First World War.
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