backward; and her mother to a barrister, Herbert Duckworth (1833-70), by whom she had three children, George (1868-1934), Stella (1869-97), and Gerald (1870-1937). Julia and Leslie Stephen had four children: Vanessa (1879-1961), Thoby (1880-1906), Virginia, and Adrian (1883-1948). All eight children lived with the parents and a number of servants at 22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington (The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003, p. 1).
Woolf married Leonard Woolf, himself a member of the Bloomsbury group which also included John Meynard Keynes, Roger Fry, and Lyton Strachey. Many of WoolfÆs books, including Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse have been described by Whiteley (1987) as at least partially autobiographical. Additionally, Woolf was somewhat of a bohemian with respect to social norms and mores and many of her characters, including Clarissa Dalloway, exhibit these same characteristics.
In Mrs. Dalloway, Woolf (1925) explored the hidden springs of thought and action in a single day of a womanÆs life. Clarissa DallowayÆs experience is rendered through the narratorÆs interpolations of her t
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