Peter Walsh's Penknife
Title
Peter Walsh's Penknife
Subject
knife
Description
This knife is the one owned by Peter Walsh, a friend of Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway. Made by John Turton, this is a British Sheffield Penknife.
Given by the children of Daisy Evenson, an east Indian friend of Walsh.
Clarissa Dalloway, a long-time friend of Walsh’s, remembered this knife as always being with him. It is mentioned on the first page of the book and numerous times afterwards. It appears most significantly in the scene where he pays a surprise visit to Clarissa in her London home after not having seen her for decades. While she works at sewing her dress in preparation for a party that night, “he took out his knife quite openly — his old horn-handled knife which Clarissa could swear he had had these thirty years — and clenched his fist upon it” (42).
Given by the children of Daisy Evenson, an east Indian friend of Walsh.
Clarissa Dalloway, a long-time friend of Walsh’s, remembered this knife as always being with him. It is mentioned on the first page of the book and numerous times afterwards. It appears most significantly in the scene where he pays a surprise visit to Clarissa in her London home after not having seen her for decades. While she works at sewing her dress in preparation for a party that night, “he took out his knife quite openly — his old horn-handled knife which Clarissa could swear he had had these thirty years — and clenched his fist upon it” (42).
Creator
John Nelson
Source
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf.
Publisher
Virginia Woolf
Date
1925
Contributor
John Nelson
Format
Knife
Files
Citation
John Nelson, “Peter Walsh's Penknife,” The Museum of Fictional Literary Artifacts, accessed April 29, 2024, https://mfla.omeka.net/items/show/159.