Synopsis
Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the explosion of the 'sciences of the mind'. Novels on the couch include Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway....interestingly with both novels there's a tendency to base the heroines on real people.
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The Secret Life of Books | Original manuscript of Mrs Dalloway
Alexandra Harris investigates Virginia's writing process by looking through an original manuscript of 'Mrs Dalloway'.
The Secret Life of Books | Context and form of Mrs Dalloway
Alexandra Harris discusses the historical context for 'Mrs Dalloway' and how this influenced the form of the novel.