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Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway.'.(Virginia Woolf's novel)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 19990101
Author:Hoff, Molly

Virginia Woolf's novel "Mrs. Dalloway" and its allusion to bad form bears a structural parallel with Horace's satire. Ellie Henderson, a poor relative of Clarissa Dalloway, wants to be invited to the party of Clarissa for which Mrs. Marsham intercedes for her. The uninvited guests, the social climbers and the way Clarissa reacts to the story about Septimus have their parallels in Horace's work. Thus, the character of Ellie is significant in the sense that it activates the Horatian model and places Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith in context.

Clarissa Dalloway's party is the cynosure of ...

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