"Preserved Through Childbirth": reading deep in Mrs Dalloway's virginity
Why is Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway, the eponymous protagonist of Mrs. Dalloway (1925), described as a virgin, despite her marriage and daughter? Direct references to virginity in the novel expose how it can be read as an expansive and somewhat humorous conceit, rather than as a superficial ch...
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Indiana University Press
2025
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