![]() ![]() ![]() The shop-woman cowered behind the counters. There was a violent explosion in the street outside. Virginia Woolf records the variety of thoughts in Clarissa’s head, memories, impressions, things she observes and muses upon, including the feeling of familiarity about the other customer in the glove shop. ![]() She leaves her house, meets an old friend, remembers the death of another, notices the other people in Bond Street and enters the glove shop. The story is an early experiment in stream of consciousness, a technique to convey the layers, textures, and loops of consciousness experienced by Clarissa. As in the novel we follow Clarissa through the streets from her home in Westminster to the glove shop in Bond Street. The gloves are French, white, half an inch over the elbow with pearl buttons. Mrs Dalloway does indeed buy some gloves right at the end of this story, which is less than 8 pages long. I think we can conclude that Virginia Woolf found her useful to her writing. First in The Voyage Out, then in the short story, then in the novel and finally in several short stories written after Mrs Dalloway. ![]() Mrs Dalloway appears in Virginia Woolf’s fiction on several occasions. The flowers are from the opening line of the novel Mrs Dalloway, published later. The gloves are from Virginia Woolf’s short story Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street – my choice for this third contribution to #Woolfalong. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. ![]()
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