Wolfe, Jesse. “THE SANE WOMAN IN THE ATTIC: SEXUALITY AND SELF-AUTHORSHIP IN ‘MRS. DALLOWAY.’” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 51, no. 1, 2005, pp. 34–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26286352. Accessed 7 May 2021.

I will use this source to explore the sexuality of the characters, specifically Clarissa.This article relates Clarissa’s sexuality to Virginia Woolf herself which may or may not be a part of the essay.

Sautter-Leger, Sabine. “Railed in by a maddening reason: a reconsideration of Septimus Smith and his role in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway.” Papers on Language & Literature, vol. 53, no. 1, 2017, p. 3. Gale Academic OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A490474584/AONE?u=cuny_hunter&sid=AONE&xid=77cd7357. Accessed 7 May 2021.

This will be used to relate Septimus to the overall narrative of the novel and Clarissa herself. This will also be used to connect the anxieties and fear post WW1 to the ideas of conformity and rebellion and the mental state of those who were deeply psychologically ‘affected’ by the war or otherwise.

Virginia Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries, edited by Julie Vandivere, and Megan Hicks, Liverpool University Press, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/huntercollege-ebooks/detail.action?docID=4815440.

Selections of this will be used to contextualize Virginia Woolf with her contemporaries with specific emphasis on their ideas about marriage and love. 

Eng, D. T. C. (2020). Virginia woolf as a creative social artist: Female transcendence and male ambivalence in to the lighthouse and mrs. dalloway. Agathos, 11(2), 93-105. Retrieved from http://proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/scholarly-journals/virginia-woolf-as-creative-social-artist-female/docview/2462487385/se-2?accountid=27495

This will be used to analyze and contextualize females and femininity in a primarily patriarchal and phallic centered society. 

Drobot, I. (2020). Virginia woolf’s modernist path. her middle diaries and the diaries she read. Philologica Jassyensia, 16(2), 412-413. Retrieved from http://proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/scholarly-journals/virginia-woolfs-modernist-path-her-middle-diaries/docview/2477759601/se-2?accountid=27495

These are Woolf’s journals which may or may not be used in the essay. They would give context to her mental state and yet there may not be anything which relates to the specific thesis I’ve chosen. 

Wood, Olivia. “A Diamond and a Tropic Gale: Reexamining Bisexuality in Mrs. Dalloway.” Journal of Bisexuality, vol. 18, no. 3, July 2018, pp. 382–394. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/15299716.2018.1540374.

This will be used to examine love vs marriage in the novel, specifically related to Septimus and Clarissa’s relationships with Evans and Sally respectively. 

“Marriage.” Family Experiments: Middle-Class, Professional Families in Australia and New Zealand c. 1880–1920, by SHELLEY RICHARDSON, ANU Press, Australia, 2016, pp. 177–216. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1q1crn1.15. Accessed 7 May 2021.

This will be used to analyze marriage as an institution as popularly regarded by people in the 1920’s. This may or may not be used to examine the socio economic status’s of opinions of marriage. 

Littleton, Jacob. “Mrs. Dalloway: Portrait of the Artist as a Middle-Aged Woman.” Twentieth Century Literature, vol. 41, no. 1, 1995, pp. 36–53. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/441714. Accessed 7 May 2021.

This will be used to challenge the Bildungsroman and analyze how Woolf did not create Clarissa as a young coming of age woman but as a woman struggling with middle age and the reflection of when she was a young woman. Primarily this will be used to emphasize how a womans life does not end with marriage at a young age as the novels of previous periods (including the georgian and victorian era, extending further into the zeitgeist) imply by usually ending just after or soon after a woman and her male partner marry. 

GELFANT, BLANCHE H. “Love and Conversion in ‘Mrs. Dalloway.’” Criticism, vol. 8, no. 3, 1966, pp. 229–245. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23094188. Accessed 7 May 2021.

This will be used to explore how Clarissa Dalloway uses her parties as forms of love, conversation as a means of connection and intimacy yet reinforcing that she is ever divided from her guests by ending conversations early to ‘entertain’ others.