[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dallow-day?

Mon Jun 13 22:20:03 EDT 2016

Clarissa's paternal name before her marriage was Parry, but ultimately she is a woman who has never had a last name of her own. She is just Clarissa, with no real last name, because the male blood line deprives her of a separate and distinct self. Could this special day be called "Clarissa-day" instead of "Dallow-day"?

Vara Neverow
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I‘m sorry but I think that this is a terrible idea that misses much of the point of the novel and misconstrues its relationship to historicity!  First, Clarissa’s experience of urban  London is not exactly peachy, in large part because she is a woman trying to negotiate male space.  I’d go so far as to say that it’s traumatic, so much so that she never leaves the house again after her morning outing to buy the flowers and that it leads to the invention of Septimus Smith, a readymade victim of history/historicity, to negotiate the full encounter for her.  Second, his experience isn’t peachy either.  Would these Dallow-Days include ritual suicides as well?  Here’s death at my party.  I too am currently at the Joyce conference and at my hotel there’s a lovely restaurant called Dalloway Terrace which could serve a double purpose.   People could dine in style and then fling themselves into the street below!

The novel actually has a complicated and uneasy relationship to historicity and both thematizes and dramatizes that relationship.  While Woolf locates the novel primarily in day-time (an unspecified  Wednesday in the middle of June), as it unfolds it gradually approaches a confrontation with date-time and that confrontation is at the moment of suicide, when Septimus reads from a newspaper and mentions a cricket match, and Peter Walsh later corroborates it.  All the London newspapers report a match between Surrey and Yorkshire on June 20, 1923.  To engage in historicity in this way threatens the autonomy/sovereignty  of the fiction, which Woolf has been intent, as Anne suggests, to preserve,  but it's also necessary (for a number of reasons) for Woolf to have that engagement.  While I agree that we need to be very careful with this business, I do not agree that there is no point of contingency between the day of the novel a real date:

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Michael F. Davis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Associate Chair
Department  of English
Le Moyne College
Syracuse, NY 13214
USA

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com<mailto:james.d.gifford at gmail.com>> wrote:
"Dallow-Days" -- the plural would not only give more Wednesdays for fun but would be more in the spirit...

Cheers,
James

On 2016-06-13 1:38 PM, Anne Fernald wrote:
It *is* a beautiful idea and I'd be 100% in favor of finding a way to
celebrate a Dallow-Day--we dream of it every June, don't we?

Even so, I find myself unable to resist the pedantic point that there is
no possible way to date which Wednesday in June the novel is set on.
Woolf actively resisted the possibility of such dating as David
Bradshaw's work and the work of others has conclusively shown.

Sorry! I LOVE a party, but I value accuracy, too.

Cheers,

Anne

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Anne Margaret Daniel
<daniela at newschool.edu<mailto:daniela at newschool.edu> <mailto:daniela at newschool.edu<mailto:daniela at newschool.edu>>> wrote:

    A lovely idea -- and one I believe currently trending on Twitter, in
    London at least, as #Dallowday.  Elaine Showalter's video is getting
    many views on this beautiful summer's day.
    (and, also, happy birthday today to William Butler Yeats!)
    Happy rereading, with larks and plunges, to all.

    On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Kristin Czarnecki
    <Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu<mailto:Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu>
    <mailto:Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu<mailto:Kristin_Czarnecki at georgetowncollege.edu>>> wrote:

        An endorsement for creating a Mrs. Dallowday:

         https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/13/celebrate-dallowday-mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2fbooks%2f2016%2fjun%2f13%2fcelebrate-dallowday-mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf&data=01%7c01%7cneverowv1%40southernct.edu%7c502e8dc941b74f68ccb608d393f1b390%7c58736863d60e40ce95c60723c7eaaf67%7c1&sdata=%2bEexz6CZ15vBj77en0jiNlA5LiIlmrN6qPMh13JXWX0%3d>
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        Bring out the cardies and cocktails – it’s time we celebrated
        Dallowday
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        Ulysses has given Dublin Bloomsday, so why can’t London raise a
        glass to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway?

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        Associate Professor of English
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