Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway was published on 14 May 1925.
It examines one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, an upper-class Londoner married to a member of Parliament. Mrs. Dalloway is essentially plotless; the action takes place mainly in the characters’ consciousness. The novel addresses the nature of time in personal experience through multiple interwoven stories, particularly that of Clarissa as she prepares for and hosts a party and that of the mentally damaged war veteran Septimus Warren Smith. The two characters can be seen as foils for each other (= they contrast with each other and go well together). Read here.
The Hours was the working title Virginia Woolf gave the novel that became Mrs. Dalloway. This novel chronicles the hours that make up one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, who prepares to host a party. Mrs. Dalloway inspired Michael Cunningham's novel, The Hours (1998). In both the earlier and later books, the title refers to the events and thoughts characters experience during the hours in an ordinary day. In a larger sense, the characters are preoccupied by mortality and suicide becomes the ultimate rejection of a meaningless or too-painful life.
The Hours is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman.
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