The Toronto Public Library is hosting “Edward Mendelson and Ann-Marie MacDonald: Mrs. Dalloway at 100” on Wednesday, November 5th at the Bram & Bluma Appel Salon and I plan on being there. #MrsD 💐📖
1
0
1
0
Hashtag
#MrsD
Advertisement · 728 × 90
6
2
0
0
#MrsD 💐 bsky.app/profile/neuv...
0
0
1
0
1
0
1
0
Label from the Metropolitan Museum’s Sleeping Beauties exhibition. The text begins “‘It is the hat that matters the most,’ notes Rezia, the Italian milliner in Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925).”
Label from the Metropolitan Museum’s Sleeping Beauties exhibition. The text begins “‘Everyone knows meditation and water are wedded forever,’ Herman Melville exclaimed in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851), a sentiment echoed in the garments in this gallery.”
I finally went to see the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the Met, and I think someone there has been in our #MrsD and #AMonthOfDick reading groups:
7
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
#MrsD 💐 scholar.stlawu.edu/psychologica...
0
0
1
0
0
0
1
0
Ohhhh, I’m going to need to track down a copy of this article. #MrsD 💐 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
0
0
1
0
I’m still way behind on the schedule, but I’m still reading Mrs Dalloway, and I just bought the Norton Critical Edition for when I re-read it. And I’m still keeping track of the similarities between the novel and Keeping Up Appearances. #MrsD 💐
0
0
1
0
I got behind on the readings due to some travel and some other obligations, but I just finished up. I so enjoyed doing this. I hope to catch up on people’s thoughts in the next couple of days! #MrsD 💐
13
0
0
0
It’s been a genuine thrill to read along with everyone in the #HotFrankSummer and #MrsD groups. I enjoyed reading the novels in a way I haven’t in decades. Thank you to everyone for your insights, and your encouragement to continue when I wanted to quit! Now I’m hooked. What are we reading next? 💐🔩
9
0
1
0
On the last page of #MrsD Woolf reveals that Sally is 55, Peter 52 and Clarissa 51. So, at Bourton, Clarissa was 18. Peter was 19 and Sally was 22. No wonder she was an influential model of cool… the maturity gap between 18 and 22 is enormous. Made me see their relationship dynamic differently. 💐
10
1
0
0
Remembering “her daring, her recklessness, her melodramatic love of being at the center,” Clarissa accepted the friend request from her long-lost high school friend Sally on Facebook, imagining “some awful tragedy…her martyrdom; instead she had married a bald man. And she had five boys!” 😂💐 #MrsD
12
0
0
0
Really glad I read #MrsD — I loved it. Huge thanks to @amndw2.bsky.social for organizing!
10
0
0
0
Had a couple of travel days and having finished #MrsD I decided to re-read Murakami's "A Wild Sheep Chase", which I first read maybe 20 yrs ago. And this time I was really struck by the Moby-Dick like nature of the plot, trying to find a single sheep in all of Hokkaido. 🐋
5
0
2
0
"She could not resist recalling what Charles Darwin had said about her little book on the orchids of Burma."
Astounded to see Charles Darwin appear (albeit off-stage) in #MrsD. But what did he say about her little book??
3
0
0
0
I've been at a conference for the last two days but haven't forgotten about #MrsD, so, catching up: 1) I like that Clarissa's party starts with the servants' point of view for a change. Lucy running around, all the kitchen staff going full tilt. It's not a perspective we see much of in this novel. 💐
8
0
1
0
A week behind the group but catching up this weekend. I found it fascinating how the other characters seem constantly bombarded by the ever-booming tolls of Big Ben, but young Elizabeth seems to exist outside of time, asking herself on her stroll “But what was the time?–where was a clock?” 💐 #MrsD
11
0
1
0
Catching up on #MrsD, and the way Clarissa watches the old woman across the street made me think of the recurring scenes of the elderly people trying to put a bottle in the recycling bin in all 3 films in Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors trilogy. (I just rewatched Blue, so it's on my mind.)
6
0
2
0
This moment in #MrsD where Clarissa "suddenly feel[s], for no reason that she could discover, desperately unhappy," and tries to find the source of the sadness, and then is "perfectly happy" the moment she realizes what it is, feels very true to life somehow.
12
0
0
1
Something this lunch scene in #MrsD always makes me wonder: why Millicent Bruton and her secretary Milly Brush have practically the same name. As if to underscore Milly's devotion to her employer, like she's practically Lady Bruton's Mini-Me.
10
0
0
0
I appreciate how this section keeps going back and forth between Septimus and Rezia. It makes me feel a lot of sympathy for her, even if she seems to have no understanding of what he is going through. I keep thinking of how he describes her at one point : “like a lily, drowned, under water…” 💐 #MrsD
10
0
1
0
At the end of today’s reading, “Clarissa Dalloway laid her green dress on her bed.” A few pages earlier, Septimus twice describes his memory of Miss Isabel Pole “walking in a green dress in a square” and later “in a green dress walking in a square.” Hmmm. 💐 #MrsD
9
0
3
0
at the beach over the ocean an airplane flies by, some advertisement on a piece of cloth floating behind it. it's impossible to read and there's no sense of spectacle
brought #MrsD to the beach and i must say aeroplane advertisements have really gone downhill in the last century 💐
13
0
0
0
I'm really noticing on this reading of #MrsD how many people think sports will cure Septimus of his problems, whether physical or mental. First cricket, now football. There's an insidious "fitness = health (and by implication manliness)" logic at work. 💐
15
0
3
0
I went to see a performance of “Henry VI” last night and got thinking about #MrsD … Watching a play, we’re on the outside, viewing these characters and their interactions. In Dalloway, we’re mostly inside the characters minds, seeing their rumination and reflection as they look out at the world. 💐
7
0
0
0
"With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes—one of the tragedies of married life. "
Good god, Woolf not pulling any punches here. #MrsD
8
0
3
0
Mrs. Dalloway playlist, as promised! Still taking recommendations of any genre. It doesn't have to be such an obvious connection. Vibes are fine, although it would be cool if you'd explain the connection when you post just for curiosity's sake. #MrsD 💐
youtube.com/playlist?lis...
6
0
3
0
Septimus stuck in his own head, Lucrezia alone in her suffering, Peter wandering solo, Clarissa getting 💐 by herself and arriving home to find Mr. Dalloway is gone and she’s still alone. On the handful of pages where she and Peter directly interact they tremble and confess and weep openly. #MrsD
5
0
0
0