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<p><em>“Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself.”</em></p>
<p>This is not the opening to Virginia Woolf’s novel, <em>Mrs Dalloway</em>, but rather the opening to the short story that preceded it: “Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street.” <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/sum-parts-virginia-woolfs-mrs-dalloway-short-story-novel-writing/#more-4127" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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The Sum of the Parts: Virginia Woolf’s <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em> and the Short Story in Novel Writing

The Sum of the Parts: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and the Short Story in Novel Writing

Susmita Bhattacharya is the author of <em>The Normal State of Mind</em>. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in <em>Mslexia, Wasafiri, Structo,</em> and <em>Eleven Eleven Journal,</em> among others, and been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Born in Mumbai, she now lives in Winchester, UK. She sailed on oil tankers for three years after marrying a master mariner, and never once suffered from sea-sickness. She teaches contemporary fiction at Winchester University and leads workshops for young writers with SO: Write, Southampton.