A first edition of Mrs. Dalloway, from 1925.
As we will discuss in class, it is possible to map with precision the routes that various characters take through the novel on this Wednesday in June, 1923. I’ve found a couple websites that make interesting efforts:
This site, from the Viginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, gives us an incredibly precise, turn-by-turn recreation of the novel’s movements in the early sections. http://www.virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/resources/a-mrs-dalloway-walk-in-london/
This site, which appears to have prepared for an undergraduate course at Georgia Institute of Technology, has multiple maps and good timelines for a number of characters. While the material included under “analysis” seems more like plot summary to me, the visuals here are worth a look–but be careful, since there are plot spoilers on the character pages. http://mrsdallowaymappingproject.weebly.com/index.html
William Blake was both a poet and a visual artist, committed to the interaction of word and image on the page. Each of his illuminated books was completed by hand: first, he would hand-etch designs onto copper plates, then ink-printing the pages, which he subsequently hand-colored and hand-bound. Given the labor-intensive nature of this publication process, he produced few copies, and all are different. The Blake Archive allows us to compare different copies of his texts; I link here to the two pages of “The Little Black Boy,” from Songs of Innocence, which show how the tension between the verbal and visual texts can change our interpretations:
