Monday, May 28, 2012

Mrs.Dalloway 9


“And London was so dreary compared with being alone in the country with her father and the dogs (135)”.

According to Woolf's memoirs, her most vivid childhood memories were not of London but of St. Ives in Cornwall, where the family spent every summer until 1895. The character of Elizabeth could be Woolf’s depiction of herself, and how she felt growing up in the upper class society of London, England. The summer house, which was situated in the country, was most likely a get away.

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