Editor’s Note: Salon organizers have added two readings to the homework list. They are in boldface below.
What a month! First, the 31st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Woolf and Ecologies. Then Dalloway Day. Now, an invitation. Mrs. Dalloway wants to keep the party going and requests the honor of your company at 2 pm. ET Friday, July 28, at Woolf Salon No. 25: Party Time.
Invite your friends! All are welcome.
The details
Hosts: Salon Conspirators
Day: Friday, 28 July 2023
Time: 2–4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11 a.m.–1 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 3–5 p.m. Brasilia / 7–9 p.m. BST (London) / 8–10 p.m. CEST (Paris) / 9–11 p.m. Ankara / 3 a.m –5 a.m. Sat 7/29 JST (Tokyo) / 4 a.m –6 a.m Sat 7/29 AEST (Sydney)
Homework: Mrs. Dalloway’s Party
The readings
This 25th installment of the Salon Project will focus on the short stories posthumously collected in Mrs. Dalloway’s Party (1973). They are:
- “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street” (Collected Short Fiction, pp. 152–59; online)
- “The Man Who Loved His Kind” (CSF, pp. 195–200; HH, pp. 96–101)
- “A Simple Melody” (CSF, pp. 201–07)
- “The Introduction” (CSF, pp. 184–88)
- “Ancestors” (CSF, pp. 181–83)
- “Together and Apart” (CSF, pp. 189–94; HH, pp. 115–20)
- “The New Dress” (CSF, pp. 170–77; HH, pp. 43–51)
- “Happiness” (CSF, pp. 178–80)
- “A Summing Up” (CSF, pp. 208–11; HH, pp. 121–24)
The event will be recorded for members of the International Virginia Woolf Society.
How to join the Salon
Anyone can join the Salon group, which usually meets on one Friday of each month via Zoom and focuses on a single topic or text. Just contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.
Background on the Salon
The Salon Conspirators — Benjamin Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

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