A Heart Winning Romantic Comedy Novel Adapted Into Film
Night and Day is a forgotten romantic novel by the British modernist author Virginia Woolf. Published in 1919, the novel follows main characters Katharine Hilbery, Ralph Denham, Cassandra, Mary Datchet, and William Rodney as they negotiate their searches for romantic love, freedom or happiness. . Katharine Hilbery is the granddaughter of a well-known poet. Her first romantic interest is William, a frustrated poet who later get married to and Cassandra Otway, Katharine's cousin. Ralph Denham is a lawyer who sublimates his own wishes for happiness and freedom to work and earn for his family. Mary Datchet, a suffragist, and the daughter of a country vicar, learns to sublimate her own desires for romantic love. This social comedy shows the push and pull between the personal freedom and demands of love. It also humorously portrays the endless efforts of Katharine Hilbery to avoid marriage and romance. This largely neglected romantic novel by Virginia Woolf promises to be a