Mrs Dalloway

Within our minds, time flows eternal in parallel streams, carrying a host of memories and conflicting emotions and we are connected by webs of intermittent visibility to the lives of many whom we have never even met. This is what we come to realise as we join Clarissa Dalloway on a fine June day in 1923, as she prepares a party she is giving that night for London's social and political elite. Virginia Woolf's often teasing portrait of British characters at every level of society - from housemaid, to academic, to aristocrat, to religious devotee, to politician - remains remarkably accurate to this day.

Mrs Dalloway is one of Woolf's most delicately woven and moving tales.

Original artwork by Magda Allani.

Public Domain (P)2021 Magda Allani