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The Annotated Mrs Dalloway, Merve Emre, c. 2021.

Some weeks ago I mentioned I was in my India phase, in the process of reading three books on Indian history: the "whole" history, followed by the history of the British reign, and then ending with the story of India today.

Wow, that really paid dividends. Today I'm reading a bit of The Annotated Mrs Dalloway and early on the annotator has a long piece about another uprising in India during Britain's oppressive colonial rule. Had I not read the history of India, this annotation would have meant nothing to me and I would have skipped over it. As it was, I thoroughly enjoyed it, recognizing much of the history of which I was now familiar. 

Mrs Dalloway was published in 1925. On September 1, 1920, Mahatma Gandhi has started the non-cooperation movement with the aim of securing full Indian independence through nonviolent means. Two years later Gandhi was arrested for sedition and sentenced to six years in prison. 

Clarissa's sometime-love interest Peter Walsh worked as a civil servant in British India. It wasn't until 1947 that India gained its independence. 

Virginia Woolf, herself, committed suicide on March 28, 1941. 

I find it interesting, that of all the possibilities that Virginia Woolf could have chosen for Peter Walsh, she chose "civil servant in British India," an affair (the British Raj) that would have preoccupied Virginia Woolf's entire adult life. 

Virginia Woolf was born in 1882.

The British Raj: 1858 - 1947.

See my note, one of many, on Mrs Dalloway at this post.

My most precious note on the novel, here.