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The Hours (novel), the Glossary

The Hours, a 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham, is a tribute to Virginia Woolf's 1923 work ''Mrs. Dalloway''; Cunningham emulates elements of Woolf's writing style while revisiting some of her themes within different settings.^[1]

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Books about Virginia Woolf
Novels about HIV/AIDS
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A Home at the End of the World (novel)

A Home at the End of the World is a 1990 novel by American author Michael Cunningham. The Hours (novel) and a Home at the End of the World (novel) are Novels by Michael Cunningham.

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Angelica Garnett

Angelica Vanessa Garnett (née Bell; 25 December 1918 – 4 May 2012), was a British writer, painter and artist.

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Bisexuality

Bisexuality is a romantic or sexual attraction or behavior toward both males and females (gender binary), to more than one gender, or to both people of the same gender and different genders.

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Charlie Rose

Charles Peete Rose Jr. (born January 5, 1942) is an American journalist and talk show host.

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Context (linguistics)

In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind.

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David Hare (playwright)

Sir David Rippon Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director.

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Dora Carrington

Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Gay pulp fiction

Gay pulp fiction, or gay pulps, refers to printed works, primarily fiction, that include references to male homosexuality, specifically male gay sex, and that are cheaply produced, typically in paperback books made of wood pulp paper; lesbian pulp fiction is similar work about women.

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Gretchen Gerzina

Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (born 1950) is an American author and academic who has written mostly historically-grounded biographical studies.

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HarperCollins

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Hogarth Press

The Hogarth Press is a book publishing imprint of Penguin Random House that was founded as an independent company in 1917 by British authors Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf.

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James Joyce

James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet and literary critic.

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Joyce DiDonato

Joyce DiDonato (née Flaherty; born February 13, 1969) is an American opera singer and recitalist.

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Julian Bell

Julian Heward Bell (4 February 1908 – 18 July 1937) was an English poet, and the son of Clive and Vanessa Bell (who was the elder sister of Virginia Woolf).

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Julianne Moore

Julie Anne Smith (born December 3, 1960), known professionally as Julianne Moore, is an American actress.

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Kelli O'Hara

Kelli Christine O'Hara (born April 16, 1976) is an American actress and singer, most known for her work on the Broadway and opera stages.

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Kevin Puts

Kevin Matthew Puts (born January 3, 1972) is an American composer, best known for his opera The Hours and for winning a Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for his first opera Silent Night and a Grammy Award in 2023 for his concerto Contact.

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf (–) was a British political theorist, author, publisher, and civil servant.

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Lesbian

A lesbian is a homosexual woman or girl.

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Libretto

A libretto (an English word derived from the Italian word libretto) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.

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Mental disorder

A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

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Meryl Streep

Mary Louise "Meryl" Streep (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham (born November 6, 1952) is an American novelist and screenwriter.

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Mrs Dalloway

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. The Hours (novel) and Mrs Dalloway are Novels set in one day.

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Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English-American actress.

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Nellie Boxall

Nellie Boxall (1890-1965) was a domestic servant.

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Nicole Kidman

Nicole Mary Kidman (born 20 June 1967) is an Australian and American actress, model and producer.

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Nonlinear narrative

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.

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Party

A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion.

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is awarded annually by the PEN/Faulkner Foundation to the authors of the year's best works of fiction by living Americans, Green Card holders or permanent residents.

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Phelim McDermott

Phelim McDermott (born 21 August 1963) is an English actor and stage director.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.

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Pitcher (container)

In American English, a pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring liquids.

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Playbill

Playbill is an American monthly magazine for theatergoers.

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Present

The present is the period of time that is occurring now.

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Protagonist

A protagonist is the main character of a story.

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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize for Fiction is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Quentin Bell

Quentin Claudian Stephen Bell (19 August 1910 – 16 December 1996) was an English art historian and author.

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Ralph Partridge

Reginald Sherring Partridge, (1894 – 30 November 1960), generally known as Ralph Partridge, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Renée Fleming

Renée Lynn Fleming (born February 14, 1959) is an American soprano, known for performances in opera, concerts, recordings, theater, film, and at major public occasions.

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Richmond, London

Richmond is a town in south-west London,The London Government Act 1963 (c.33) (as amended) categorises the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames as an Outer London borough.

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River Ouse, Sussex

The Ouse is a long river in the English counties of West and East Sussex.

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Specimen Days

Specimen Days is a 2005 novel by American writer Michael Cunningham. The Hours (novel) and Specimen Days are Novels by Michael Cunningham.

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Stephen Daldry

Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television.

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Stream of consciousness

In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode or method that attempts "to depict the multitudinous thoughts and feelings which pass through the mind" of a narrator.

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Sussex

Sussex (/ˈsʌsɪks/; from the Old English Sūþsēaxe; lit. 'South Saxons') is an area within South East England which was historically a kingdom and, later, a county.

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The Hours (film)

The Hours is a 2002 psychological drama film directed by Stephen Daldry and starring Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep.

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The Hours (opera)

The Hours is a 2022 opera in two acts with music by Kevin Puts and an English-language libretto by Greg Pierce, based on Michael Cunningham's 1998 novel and its 2002 film adaptation, both with the same title.

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Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf (née Stephen).

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