Department of English
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
The Hours
(1998)
Michael Cunningham
(November 6, 1952 – )
Notes
77 Rilke's Apollo: See Rainer Maria Rilke's poem ("Archaïscher Torso Apollos") and English translation ("Torso of an Archaic Apollo").
A Mrs. Dalloway Walk in London
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Review Sheet
Characters
Clarissa Vaughn (10), Mrs. Dalloway (10), Clare – 52 years old (10); a publisher ("the good, flagrantly unprofitable books Clarissa insists on publishing alongside the pulpier items that pay her way" 20–21; lives on the 5th floor of a building on West Tenth Street in New York City? (10, 11)
Dan Brown – husband of Laura Brown; war veteran
Julia Vaughn – Clarissa's daughter
Mrs. Latch – lives "down the street" from the Browns (141)
Laura Brown (nee Zielski) –
Leonard Woolf – husband of Virginia Woolf
Richard Worthington Brown – poet ("three volumes of poetry and...single, unreadable novel" 22); son of Laura and Dan Brown
Virginia Woolf (nee Stephen) –
Setting
England
Richmond, June 1923 (29)
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) and Hogarth House (also available in pdf)
To the Suburbs: Richmond (Woolf's Richmond)
Woolf in the World: A Pen and a Press of Her Own (story and images of books printed by Hogarth Press during Virginia Woolf's time)
London
"Night and Day Is Dead": Virginia Woolf in London (critical essay)
Bloomsbury Group (origins, lifestyle and beliefs, profiles, influence and achievements)
The Edwardian Era (1880–1914)
Rodmell, East Sussex, March 28, 1941 (3)
To The Lighthouse And Beyond – A Virginia Woolf And Bloomsbury Trail (description and images of Woolf sites)
Virginia Woolf and the Great War (book review; Chula access)
Leonard Woolf was living in Rodmell in Sussex at the start of the Second World War (Leonard Woolf writes about his and Virginia's experience of war)
USA
Los Angeles, 1949, "well past seven" (37)
New York City, Saturday morning in June, late 1990s (9)
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Reference
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Virginia Woolf
World War I World War II Women
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Reference
Cunningham, Michael. The Hours. London: Fourth Estate, 1998.
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