Today, May 14, marks the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway,
A reader favorite
Woolf’s fourth novel, set on a single day in the middle of June in 1923, elicited a variety of responses after its publication.
As Mark Hussey explains in Virginia Woolf A to Z (1995), the novel has not only held the attention of critics over the years, but “with To the Lighthouse, has probably generated more commentary than any other of Wolf’s fictions” (175).
The novel, lauded for its use of interior monologue, as well as its poetic language, is a reader favorite. It is certainly one I have picked up and read at various stages of my life during the last 50 years, always finding some new insight into Clarissa, along with some new connections between Clarissa’s thoughts and life and my own.
Links to follow in celebration of the centenary
Here are some links to articles and events noting this milestone, thanks to Vara Neverow, professor of English at Connecticut State University and editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.
- Charleston celebrates the centenary of Mrs Dalloway.
- Harriet Baker comments on the centenary of Mrs Dalloway in The Times
- An article in Medium discusses the centenary of Mrs Dalloway
- Walk tours of Mrs Dalloway in London
- Naomi Milthorpe writes an article for the Indian website Scroll.in
- The Conversation.com offers observations about the centenary of Mrs Dalloway
- Jeanette Winterson provides observations about Mrs Dalloway‘s centenary
- University of Tasmania dedicates a webpage to Mrs Dalloway‘s centenary
- A conference on the centenary of Mrs Dalloway will be held in Ireland on 7 June 2025
- A new hardback edition of Mrs Dalloway has been published by Penguin
- Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical opens in Cincinnati
- Mrs. Dalloway: Biography of a Novel by Mark Hussey, is available for pre-sale on Amazon and from Manchester University Press
