Mrs Dalloway, Woolf and Women’s Magazines

Historicist and feminist approaches are introduced through placing Mrs Dalloway in the context of women’s magazines to show how context can assist in determining the meaning in the book and expand on the theme of women in literature and society.

This resource assists students to:

• show knowledge and understanding of the ways that texts can be grouped and compared to inform interpretation
• show knowledge and understanding of the contexts in which texts have been produced and received, and understanding of how these contexts influence meaning
• understand the ways in which texts relate to one another and to literary traditions, movements and genres
• understand the significance of cultural and contextual influences on readers and writers

This resource has been developed in association with the AHRC-funded project ‘Time and Tide: Connections and Legacies’ directed by Catherine Clay, Associate Professor in Feminist and Literary Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. For more information about the project, visit the project website: https://www.timeandtidemagazine.org

This project aims to introduce the history of Time and Tide and related interwar women’s periodicals to a wider public through a host of centenary celebrations including: a Souvenir Edition of Time and Tide, a Festival of Women Writers and Journalists, and an Exhibition of Interwar Women’s Magazines at the Women’s Library, LSE.

This is an open access resource under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any non-commercial medium, provided the original work is properly cited.