https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/06/05/a-house-of-ones-own
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This is absolutely fascinating.
Jo-Ann Wallace says she typed the entire manuscript of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway as a typist for Broadview Press. She simply typed it without really thinking much about it, apparently, except fro the strange punctuation Mrs Woolf used.
LOL.
I did the same thing -- typed out the entire manuscript of Virginia Woolf some years ago. I have discussed this on many occasions.
I am surprised that Ms Jo-Ann Wallace completely missed the explanation for the "unusual punctuation."
Mrs Dalloway is a prose poem.
If one formats / types the entire novel in "free verse," one will see that the punctuation makes sense, it is not unusual.
Ms Woolf did not type out or write Mrs Dalloway in free verse, as far as anyone knows, but while writing it, Ms Woolf was punctuating it as if it were free verse.
Again, I am amazed that Ms Wallace completely missed this. And with a bit of googling she would have found my explanation.
Google mrs dalloway oksol and the first entry pops up: Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Bashkirtseff.
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