JOYCEAN

What a lark! James Joyce’s novel “Ulysses” was scarcely “later” than Virginia Woolf’s “Mrs. Dalloway,” as it was published in 1922, a full three years before “Mrs. Dalloway” appeared (“A Woolf at Her Door,” by Susan Salter Reynolds, Feb. 16).

What’s more, Woolf was well-acquainted with, if admittedly nonplused by, Joyce’s masterpiece, so the implication that she was the originator of the single-day-in-June setting is misleading indeed.

FELICITY FITZPATRICK

Los Angeles