14. Mrs. Dalloway: (pg 30)

14. Mrs. Dalloway: (pg 30) “The candle was half burnt down and she had read deep in Baron Marbot’s Memoirs.”:
Baron Marbot’s Memoirs is a two volume memoir considered to be one of the best written and most informative of all memoirs published in the Napoleonic period. The Napoleonic period is in France and England and was the final period of the French Revolution. This book details Baron Marbot’s life and involvement in the Napoleonic Wars. Clarissa reads this book as she is trying to fall asleep. Woolf is creating a realistic setting by placing real people/ memoirs of people into Mrs. Dalloway; Woolf is raising the intellectual tone of novel and academic nature of Clarissa’s character. Woolf also develops the isolation and loneliness theme. Clarissa sleeps alone; she stays up late by herself. She prefers it but she doesn’t enjoy being alone. She feels isolated. Woolf uses the attic bedroom as a visual symbolic image of the isolation and separation.

“Napoleonic era.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 20 July 2009. 29 September 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_era

“Memoirs of Baron deMarbot.” Napoleonic Literature. 26 September 2009. 29 September 2009. http://napoleonic-literature.com/Amazon/Memoirs_of_Marbot_Vol_1.htm