![]() ![]() A girl who didn't yet feel like a failure.įaithful to the original yet fully standing alone, Daughter, Dalloway follows Elizabeth as she discovers the truth: though decades have passed and opportunities for women have changed, expectations haven't: to be it all, whatever the costs. A girl who caroused with the Prince of Wales and sons of American iron barons, a girl determined to do it all differently than her mother. Her journey takes her across London as she pieces together that last summer of 1923 when Elizabeth was a seventeen-year-old girl who escaped her mother's watchful eye and rebelled against the staid social rules of prewar England. ![]() Elizabeth sets out to find a member of his family in the hopes she will finally learn her mother's fate. And hasn't been heard from since.Įlizabeth has given up ever finding out what really happened that summer until she comes across a WWI medal inscribed with a mysterious message from her mother to a soldier, Septimus Warren Smith. Dalloway, the woman who never made a misstep, the woman who never arrived for her very own party at the end of the 1923 Season. She feels she has failed at most everything in life, especially living up to her perfect mother-the elegant Mrs. It is 1952 and forty-six-year-old Elizabeth Dalloway-arguably the most inept socialite in all of London-is fresh off yet another of her awkward parties. Dalloway, from the point of view of the famous socialite's only child, Elizabeth A retelling of Virginia Woolf's classic Mrs. ![]()
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