Was today, June 13, the day that Clarissa Dalloway headed out to buy the flowers herself? Elaine Showalter makes a case for that in The Guardian — and for the idea that Londoners and the rest of us should happily celebrate such a day in honor of Virginia Woolf.
Looking at the 1923 calendar, the critic Harvena Richter noted that 13 June is the most likely date. In his edition of Mrs Dalloway for the Oxford World’s Classics, David Bradshaw, finding a discrepancy in Woolf’s reference to a cricket game on that day, argued that the date of the party is an imaginary rather than a real Wednesday. Academics can argue over this fine point for ever. – Elaine Showalter, “Bring out the cardies and cocktails – it’s time we celebrated Dallowday,” The Guardian, 13 June 2017
Today is Dallowday–the date on which Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is set. Good to be in London and buying the flowers myself.
— Elaine Showalter (@ecshowalter) June 13, 2017
Many critics call June 13th #DallowayDay. Our celebration of #VirginiaWoolf‘s Mrs Dalloway: https://t.co/jGHlIu1je8 pic.twitter.com/okndfdVm0V
— JSTOR Daily (@JSTOR_Daily) June 13, 2016
#DallowayDay June 13th, 1923 pic.twitter.com/4iONXjUc2e
— Kunstseidene (@Kunstseidene) June 13, 2016
Novelist Rebecca Kanner honors #DallowayDay with a personal take on being a woman author @rebeccakanner @GrubWriters http://t.co/l3s6IX2BWo
— John Weeks (@weeksjf) June 13, 2013
It’s #dallowday! #mrsdallowayday https://t.co/Jwiy41SvTb
— #Readwomen (@Read_Women) June 13, 2017
June 2016: Cecil Woolf at 46 Gordon Square, London, toting a book, not flowers.
