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Virginia Woolf finds the perfect opening for her novel; Mrs. Dalloway will go out to buy flowers.
Chapter 2Virginia writes more than 200 words of her new novel; she decides Mrs. Dalloway will kill herself.
Chapter 5Vanessa Bell and her children visit Virginia. Angelica and Virginia put roses at a bird's grave.
Chapter 10Virginia walks to town and buys a ticket to London; Leonard Woolf finds her and brings her home.
Chapter 15Leonard and Virginia decide to move to London. City life will help Virginia write and live deeply.
Chapter 20Virginia Woolf commits suicide by drowning herself in a river.
Epigraphs and PrologueLaura Brown reads in bed but plans to buy flowers and bake a perfect birthday cake for her husband.
Chapter 3Kitty visits Laura and says she may be gravely ill. Laura kisses her on the lips.
Chapter 9Laura leaves home, goes to a hotel, and thinks how easy it would be to die and escape her life.
Chapter 12Laura picks up Richie. She tries to act natural with him, but he's crying and afraid of her.
Chapter 17At dinner Laura feels first angry and then content, but she's still distant with Richie.
Chapter 19Clarissa Vaughn and Richard Brown vacation with Louis Waters; Clarissa and Richard have an affair.
Chapter 8Clarissa visits Richard in his apartment; she urges him to attend her party, but he feels too ill.
Chapter 4Louis visits Clarissa. He resents her past with Richard and weeps because he has no one to love.
Chapter 11Clarissa's daughter, Julia, brings Mary Krull home; Mary critiques Clarissa's conformity.
Chapter 14| Chapter | Summary |
|---|---|
| Epigraphs and Prologue | The novel's first epigraph is by Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986), the renowned Argentinian author of fiction, essays, and ... Read More |
| Chapter 1 | It is the late 1980s or early 1990s, and Clarissa Vaughn, a 52-year-old publisher who lives in New York City with her pa... Read More |
| Chapter 2 | Virginia Woolf awakens in Hogarth House, her home in the English borough of Richmond, in 1923. She tries to recapture wh... Read More |
| Chapter 3 | Laura Brown lives in Los Angeles. It is June 1949. She is sitting up in bed reading the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dallow... Read More |
| Chapter 4 | Clarissa has bought her flowers for the party. As she walks down the street she decides to stop in at Richard's apartmen... Read More |
| Chapter 5 | Virginia Woolf is at her desk writing the beginning of her novel. So far, "parts seem very good indeed." She has high ex... Read More |
| Chapter 6 | Laura Brown is in her kitchen preparing to bake her husband's birthday cake. She's using all the bowls and utensils any ... Read More |
| Chapter 7 | On her walk, Virginia Woolf plans the events she'll include in her novel. She decides that in her youth, Mrs. Dalloway w... Read More |
| Chapter 8 | Clarissa returns home where her partner, Sally, greets her in the hallway of the building. Sally is about to leave for h... Read More |
| Chapter 9 | Laura Brown's cake "is less than she'd hoped it would be. She tries not to mind." The flower decorations and the writing... Read More |
| Chapter 10 | Virginia's sister, Vanessa, has arrived at the Woolf house more than an hour early, along with her children: Julian, Que... Read More |
| Chapter 11 | Clarissa puts the yellow roses she bought into a vase. She understands the party may seem trivial, but she's determined ... Read More |
| Chapter 12 | Laura is driving and feels as if she's in a dream. She feels trapped "like a butterfly [pinned] to a board." Richie is w... Read More |
| Chapter 13 | Virginia and Vanessa sit in the kitchen at Hogarth House, chatting. Vanessa talks about shopping for her children. Virgi... Read More |
| Chapter 14 | Julia sighs about "poor Louis," but Clarissa thinks at that moment that she wants to be Louis, "the strange person ... u... Read More |
| Chapter 15 | Vanessa and her children have left. Virginia looks at her novel in progress. She has high hopes for its success but fear... Read More |
| Chapter 16 | Sally, Oliver St. Ives, and Walter Hardy are finishing lunch. Both Oliver and Walter urge Sally to be part of a movie, a... Read More |
| Chapter 17 | Laura is only slightly late driving home from the hotel. Images from the novel Mrs. Dalloway drift through her mind. Lau... Read More |
| Chapter 18 | Clarissa has come to Richard's apartment to help him get ready for her party. Unusually, all the shades are up and the w... Read More |
| Chapter 19 | Laura and Richie are at the dinner table celebrating Dan's birthday. Laura feels a rush of anger at her "coarse ... stup... Read More |
| Chapter 20 | Leonard and Virginia have decided to move back to London. Virginia anticipates engaging in the cultural life of the city... Read More |
| Chapter 21 | Laura is brushing her teeth, getting ready for bed. She knows Dan will probably want sex tonight. Laura finishes brushin... Read More |
| Chapter 22 | It's past midnight, and Laura Brown is in Clarissa's apartment. It is about 50 years after the events in the Mrs. Brown ... Read More |
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