Night and Day

Night and Day, published in 1919, is Virginia Woolf’s second novel and a bridge between Edwardian realism and her later modernist style. The novel contrasts two women: Katharine Hilbery, an upper-class woman torn between family expectations and intellectual ambition, and Mary Datchet, an independent suffragist. Woolf explores love, gender roles, and personal freedom within a structured social world. While more conventional in form than her later works, Night and Day offers subtle psychological insight and early feminist themes.