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Here are some classics: Smollett's novel is Humphry Clinker (1771), not “Humphrey”; Richardson's is Clarissa Harlowe (1748), not “Harlow”; Defoe's is Robinson Crusoe (1719), not “Cruso”; Rider Haggard's is Allan Quatermain (1887), not “Quartermain” or “Quatermaine.”
And like Clarissa herself, I didn't want the party to end.
We move with her, back before the war, as the young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) lazes elegantly on a vast estate, romping with her saucy (and politically progressive) friend Sally Seton (Lena Headey) and putting up with Peter Walsh (Alan Cox), a misanthropic but palpably smitten suitor.
And there is an expensive birthday lunch with Clarissa and her godfather, which begins with a lively discussion of DNA and Keats and ends in a fine spray of blood.
The very title of the work is tinged with regret, since its protagonist is presented to us not as lighthearted Clarissa but as the older Dalloway's somewhat shrinking, sickly missus.