Mrs. Dalloway
Mrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfVintage Classics Woolf Series
Characters in Mrs. Dalloway
7 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Clarissa Dalloway
An upper-class London hostess in her early fifties, preparing a party while reflecting on the life and loves she chose and refused.
Septimus Warren Smith
A young First World War veteran suffering from shell shock, whose parallel day shadows Clarissa's.
Supporting characters
Peter Walsh
Clarissa's former suitor, freshly back from India, still unsettled by the marriage she refused him.
Richard Dalloway
Clarissa's dependable politician husband.
Sally Seton
The bold friend of Clarissa's youth at Bourton, now Lady Rosseter.
Lucrezia Warren Smith
Septimus's young Italian wife, bewildered and frightened by his decline.
Elizabeth Dalloway
Clarissa and Richard's seventeen-year-old daughter.