The second paragraph adds to the development of Mrs. Dalloway mainly by diving deeper into her consciousness. Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels. Woolf intends to capture the new Mrs Dalloway mainly by diving deeper into her consciousness.