...Mrs. Brown can be quoted in evidence, is to create character, to use those vivid, perfectly-phrased descriptions of outside events, of people pouring...which she is fortunately so prodigal, for one end only—to illustrate character : i I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite....

...character imposing itself upon another person. Here is Mrs. Brown making someone write a novel about her. I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the comer opposite. I believe that all novels, that is to say, deal with character, and that it is to express...

...Reader The novel evolved, claimed Virginia Woolf, for and from the purpose of creating characters: "I believe that all novels begin with an old lady...that all novels, that is to say, deal with character" (324). And while some in the twentieth century have proclaimed the death of character, others seem...

...another person. Here is Mrs. Brown making someone begin almost automatically to write a novel about her. I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite."84 Daß Johnson sich auf Barlach und Virginia Woolf beruft, mag auch eine Art Vorsichtsmaßnahme...

...then, thought Clarissa Dalloway, what a morning" (3). In "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown," Woolf, asserting that "all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite" (CE, I, 324), starts with the description, "[t]he elderly lady," which then receives a name: "whom...

...another person. Here is Mrs Brown making someone begin almost automatically to write a novel about her. I believe that all novels begin with an old lady in the corner opposite' (E3 425). If novels are concerned with the expression of character, Woolf proposes that this expression...