The New Dress (short story)

"The New Dress" is a short story by the English author Virginia Woolf.

It was written in 1924 whilst Virginia Woolf was writing Mrs. Dalloway (which was published the following year). It is possible that it was originally to have been a chapter in the novel with which it shares some characters and events.^[1] It was not published until 1927 when it appeared in the May edition of the New York magazine The Forum.^[2] It appeared again in A Haunted House and Other Short Stories published in 1944, and in Mrs. Dalloway's Party published in 1973.

Plot introduction

The stream-of-consciousness narrative concerns Mabel Waring, deeply self-conscious and insecure as she attends a party hosted by Clarissa Dalloway. Mabel's new, though old-fashioned dress symbolising her insecurity; she has gone to great care to have it made but on arrival at the party she sees it in a mirror and immediately announces to herself "No. It was not right".

References

Works by Virginia Woolf

Novels	The Voyage Out Night and Day Jacob's Room Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando: A Biography The Waves The Years Between the Acts

Short stories	A Haunted House "A Society" Monday or Tuesday "An Unwritten Novel" "The String Quartet" "Blue & Green" "Kew Gardens" "The Mark on the Wall" "The New Dress" "The Duchess and the Jeweller"

Biographies	Flush: A Biography Roger Fry: A Biography

Non-fiction	"Modern Fiction" The Common Reader A Room of One's Own On Being Ill The London Scene The Second Common Reader Three Guineas The Death of the Moth and Other Essays The Moment and Other Essays Women and Writing

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