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Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown is an essay by Virginia Woolf published in 1924 which explores modernity . History. The writer Arnold Bennett had written a review of Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922) in Cassell's Weekly in March 1923, [1] which provoked Woolf to rebut it.
- Virginia Woolf
- 1924
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24. Okt. 2017 · Using a man and woman she sat near on the train (whom she calls ‘Mr Smith’ and ‘Mrs Brown’) as her test-case, Woolf asks: how would Arnold Bennett respond to this real-life woman sitting opposite Woolf on the train, this ‘Mrs Brown’? How would he rework her as a fictional character?
It was plain, from Mrs. Brown’s silence, from the uneasy affability with which Mr. Smith spoke, that he had some power over her which he was exerting disagreeably.
Virginia Woolf s essay "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" now stands as one of her most well known aesthetic statements.1 In it she argues that the contempo rary world demands a new form of fiction—one that strives to capture the essence of the modern character, even though this necessitates inventing a new form of writing.
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party. With Mrs. Brown this time are three Edwardian novel-ists: Mr. Bennett himself, Mr. Galsworthy, and Mr. Wells. Each studies Mrs. Brown and each attempts to express her character. Mr. Wells, observing her poor dress, her small size, and her harassed and anxious state, would decry the unsatisfactory con-dition of England's primary schools ...
