By Daily Mail Reporter and Luke Andrews For Mailonline
Published: 00:27 BST, 3 June 2019 | Updated: 02:02 BST, 3 June 2019
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The original hand-written manuscript of Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway is to be published for the first time, revealing numerous changes the author, pictured, made to one of her most famous works.
The draft, written in purple ink in three notebooks between June 1923 and October 1924, shows she changed the title from The Hours and altered the first sentence from a description of the bells of Westminster to read: ‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’
It shows her margin notes, including ‘a delicious idea comes to me that I will write anything I want to write’, and indicates her initial intention to have the main character Clarissa Dalloway take her own life.
The original hand-written manuscript of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway is to be published for the first time, revealing numerous changes that the author made
Penned in purple pen across three books, they reveal that she changed the first line from a sentence describing the bells of Westminster to: 'Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself'. (Pictured) The first page of the manuscript
It shows the pencil margin she drew on each page of the notebooks, in which she recorded the date, word count and personal memos and notes for her essays.
In a diary entry for October 1922, Woolf notes that she planned to write a novel
