The Voyage Out - Introducing Mr and Mrs Dalloway

Todays quotes might be a surprise you you. They certainly were to me!

While Captain Vinrace was thinking about passengers, 

Here he began searching in his pockets and eventually discovered a card, which he planked down on the table before Rachel. On it she read, “Mr. and Mrs. Richard Dalloway, 23 Browne Street, Mayfair.” p20

and 

The truth was that Mr. and Mrs. Dalloway had found themselves stranded in Lisbon. They had been travelling on the Continent for some weeks, chiefly with a view to broadening Mr. Dalloway’s mind. p20

There are several more paragraphs about The Dalloways.

Mrs Dalloway was the first Woolf book I studied in depth at university. I thoroughly enjoyed it but it never occurred to me that Clarissa and Richard had already been introduced in Woolf’s first novel.

It was a backward and welcome step to see the prequel in a sense of characters who would burst out of this book and get a book of their own.

 

 

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