Mrs Dalloway

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24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer

The Atlantic 01 Aug 2023

An Old Gem Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Woolf’s 1925 fourth novel, Mrs. Dalloway , is made for summer reading or rereading, overflowing with vitality ... What a lark! What a plunge!” Clarissa Dalloway thinks as she sets out to buy flowers on a June day in London ... Treat yourself to a beautiful supplement as well, The Annotated Mrs.

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University Challenge deserves Amol Rajan

The Spectator 27 Jul 2023

I wish I could say that Bamber Gascoigne would be turning in his grave at what has happened to University Challenge ... Most popular ... According to the online Encyclopedia Britannica, the top 12 include Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Virginia Woolf’s (unreadable) Mrs Dalloway, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and a book called Invisible Man (not the H.G ... .

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Virginia Woolf’s living book

New Statesman 26 Jul 2023

“I shall here write the first pages of the greatest book in the world.” She was 44 years old, the famed author of Mrs Dalloway, out of London for the season ... Mrs Dalloway came from what she called “my tunnelling process”; Orlando as “an escapade; the spirit to be satiric, the ...

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Personal copy of Virginia Woolf's debut novel resurfaces

RNZ 26 Jul 2023

She's considered as one of the most innovative writers of the 20th century, and now one of her earliest works has a new lease of life online ... Listen ... “You can see the beginnings of that free indirect style, as it's called, that she uses in some of her later novels, such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves ... ....

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Virginia Woolf’s own copy of her debut novel was found in Sydney and is now online. Here’s what it reveals

The Observer 24 Jul 2023

Bought in the late 1970s, it had been misfiled with the science books in the Rare Books collection ... Top 10 imaginary journeys in literature ... Read more ... It shines a light on Woolf’s developing technique and its evolution into the free, indirect style for which she became famous in later novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and The Waves ... .

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Authors Guild’s WIT Festival registration opens this month

The Berkshire Eagle 14 Jul 2023

The Authors Guild Foundation opens registration on Monday for sponsors and members of its Giving Society for its Words, Ideas, and Thinkers Festival — known as the WIT Festival — which returns to the Berkshires the weekend of Sept. 21-23 ... “The End of Reality ... “Mrs. Dalloway at 98”; Isaac Fitzgerald in conversation with Saeed Jones ... ....

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Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Observer 30 Jun 2023

My reading begins with the long period when I didn’t read books at all ... Anton Chekhov’s stories ... Mrs Dalloway ... There’s something for a writer to learn on every page; not least of which is Woolf’s intense dedication to making Clarissa Dalloway – by my measure, a rather prosaic SW1 society dame – a compelling vessel and personage for her postwar age ... .

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The Late Americans by Brandon Taylor: Aspiring artists on the road to self-discovery

The Irish Times 24 Jun 2023

Photograph. Vivian Le/New York Times Helen Cullen. Fri Jun 30 2023 - 04.53 ... Author ... ISBN-13 ... Whereas, however, Real Life offered the reader an immersive experience deep into the psyche of one character – comparisons were drawn to Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – each extended chapter in this second novel is told from a different character’s perspective ... .

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The art of the indirect and the anxiety about Empire in ‘Mrs. Dalloway’

The Hindu 22 Jun 2023

Virginia Woolf’s novel is set in 1923; India is mentioned by name only a few times, but there are enough clues to suggest that even upper class, apolitical Londoners would have to confront reality ....

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At the Roxy: Wes Anderson's 'Asteroid City' opening

Missoulian 22 Jun 2023

CHARLOTTE MACORN The Roxy Theater. Visit theroxytheater.org for up-to-date screen times. Opening. ‘Asteroid City’ ... Rated PG-13 ... Opening Friday, June 23 ... Three women, separated by time, but connected by Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway,” yearn for more potent, meaningful lives in this adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ... .

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Locked up in Jamaica – and seeing the funny side

The Daily Telegraph 18 Jun 2023

Aeon has grown up straddling two worlds ... Locks, Ashleigh Nugent’s rollicking debut novel, is described as a “coming-of-age comedy of errors” ... Nugent has written of his love for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925), and you can see it in his novel’s fluid narrative style and interwoven chronologies ... Locks is published by Macmillan at £16.99 ... Jamaica ... .

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Ashleigh Nugent: ‘Black stories were always about London’

The Observer 18 Jun 2023

A big influence after I went back to college was Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, which showed me that a book can be more about what’s going on internally than externally.

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Those of us who have read Ulysses have a right to be smug

The Spectator 16 Jun 2023

Happy Bloomsday everybody ... Millions of people either cite the tome as the greatest piece of literature ever written, or as the biggest load of pretentious drivel ... And that includes me ... SUBSCRIBE ... Virginia Woolf, who wrote the second best novel set over a single day in Mrs Dalloway, called it ‘illiterate’, though it is not certain she even finished it ... .

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Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her ...

The Conversation 13 Jun 2023

Sewing Fisherman’s Wife by Anna Ancher (1890). Randers Museum of Art The Great British Sewing Bee is back ... 1. The Years ... 2. Mrs Dalloway. Mrs Dalloway (1925) evokes the intensity of a single day in the life of protagonist Clarissa Dalloway ... An upper-middle class woman, Dalloway is impacted by the servant crisis of this period , so mends her own dress ... 3 ... .

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All the rage: the rise of the menopause novel

The Observer 04 Jun 2023

“Of course it was!” she exclaims ... She got the all-clear this Christmas ... Traditionally, in literary terms, women over the age of 35 were either benign windbags (Austen’s Mrs Bennet, Miss Bates), miserable and put upon (Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and Ramsey) or so crazy they were likely to set the house on fire (Miss Havisham, the first Mrs Rochester) ... .