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No sooner had Virginia Woolf finished the manuscript for 'Mrs Dalloway' in October 1924 than she saw the 'Old Man', Mr Ramsay from 'The Lighthouse', the portrait of her father Sir Leslie Stephen. By January 1927, the manuscript was finished. "I am writing now as quickly and as easily as I have ever written in my life..." she noted in her diary. As in 'Mrs Dalloway', this novel centres on a woman, the beautiful, veiled mourning Mrs Ramsay, who gives Virginia Woolf features of her beloved mother. Mrs Ramsay has a gift for intuitively understanding and connecting the people around her - the family, which consists of her self-centred husband and eight children, as well as summer guests in a secluded cottage in the Hebrides. The behaviour of these people with and against each other, the small.