Nicole Kidman won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in ‘The Hours’ (Paramount Pictures) The sweet, sad irony, of course, is that any reader of Mrs Dalloway knows that she needn’t fret: the answer to ...

In June, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Mrs. Dalloway,” Virginia Woolf’s classic novel about one day in the life of an London woman in 1923. By MJ Franklin MJ Franklin is an editor ...

I have been told quite a few times that my creative writing style is somewhat reminiscent of Virginia Woolf. Although I have only read her first published story, “The Mark on the Wall,” during ...

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at ...

Professor Gillian Beer explores how Virginia Woolf and her great novel Mrs Dalloway were shaped by the 1914-18 conflict. Show more Virginia Woolf spent the First World War on the Home front mainly in ...

In his 1998 novel The Hours, writer Michael Cunningham imagines Virginia Woolf sitting down to do battle with the draft of a book that will eventually become Mrs Dalloway. “Can a single day in the ...

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