Reaching Mrs. Brown: Interiority and Typification 'Character', wrote Arnold Bennett, 'is at the heart of the novel'; yet Virginia Woolf in her essay Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown responded that Bennett's attempts at characterisation were pre-occupied with physical surroundings; his hunger for material description left his characters bare. Taking as her example a putative Mrs. Brown, elderly, destitute, proud and afraid, she proposes that Bennett would, in describing her, intricately and skilfully depict the carriage, …
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…Western Literature Gillian Beer Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground Gillian Beer Introduction to The Waves Oxford World's Classics Rachel Bowlby Feminist Destinations and further essays on Virginia Woolf Rachel Bowlby Introduction to Orlando Oxford World's Classics Arnold Kettle An Introduction to the English Novel II Mayflower Press 1955 Hermione Lee Introduction to To the Lighthouse Penguin 20th C Classics Judy Little The Experimental Self: Dialogic Subjectivity in Woolf, Pym, and Brooke- Rose Southern Illinois University Press 1996