Together and Apart was written in 1925 and first published in 1944 in the short story collection A Haunted House. It is set at a party in the Westminster home of Richard and Clarissa Dalloway, the hosts of the central social event in the novel Mrs Dalloway. Two people are introduced at Mrs. Dalloway's party and begin a rather awkward conversation where each of their internal thoughts about the other is revealed. Until they hit upon a subject close to both of their hearts...
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(Adeline) Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Her most famous works include the novels Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and Orlando (1928), and the book-length essay A Room of One's Own (1929) with its famous dictum, "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
