Message: "Dalloway" - Behind the Name

Dalloway

by Adelle (Adelle Sofia)

8/23/2006, 3:48 AM

English usage is all I know. I've just started reading Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, and everything I google about the name comes back with book references. Can anyone elaborate on the name itself, though?

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

#Dalloway

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- Jim Young (guest) +1

8/23/2006, 5:47 AM

It's locative, denoting a way, or path, through a dale, or valley.

- Adelle (Adelle Sofia)

8/23/2006, 12:34 PM

Ah, thank you. How appropriate for the character . . . :)

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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