Collage painting and narrative collage in Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf was a modern writer who commenced her career as a writer and then followed it as a painter. It doesn’t mean that she only focused more on painting than writing but exactly she did the opposite. She strived to combine these two arts simultaneously which was a new method at that time and one took a risk by combining visual and verbal language. This novelty came from her family. She was born into a great family who didn’t like to follow tradition. She had a sister named Venesa Bell who was a painter so she could help her sister in many ways They sold their house and moved to London to follow their modern life and that was a starting point for gaining a reputation since after visiting many artists, she created a new method known as collage and cubism in her writings. She wrote Mrs. Dalloway based on collage and painting elements such as impressionism and -post-impressionism.  Collage is a French word that means to glue different materials. This novel is like a collage canvas rather than a book so readers should imagine every detail and combine all parts of the story to create the whole and that is exactly what the collage does in painting. This paper intends to analyze and trace these elements in this novel by Laurent Jenny’s theory. Lastly, she used collage and cubism elements which were used in paintings as a new method in her novels and that made her novels unique.