"What a lark! What a plunge!" Composer-lyricist John Coyne and librettist Brandon Adam are collaborating on a musical adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf's classic novel about uncertainty, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mrs. Dalloway traces the thoughts, memories, and emotions of one character through the course of a single day in the middle of June 1923. Woolf’s fourth novel, originally entitled “The Hours,” is set ...

I read “Mrs. Dalloway” for the first time when I was ten or eleven, too young to make much sense of it. It was summer. I was away from home, though I cannot recall where or why exactly—only that the ...

Mrs. Dalloway, published May 14, 1925, is Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece. The novel follows socialite Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party and receives a visit from an old suitor.

For many of us, 12 April was the 'Glorious Twelfth', reborn. Yet it swiftly became apparent that the UK weather was not willing to play ball, and as April turned into May, a long-awaited spring failed ...

On May 14, 1925, a London flower shop became the unlikely threshold to literary history. It was the day Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway was published, introducing readers to Clarissa Dalloway, a poised ...

In September, The Wall Street Journal published a report, based on leaked documents, describing Facebook’s awareness of the harmful effects one of its platforms was having on young people. “Thirty-two ...

BERKELEY — Mrs. Dalloway’s Literary and Garden Arts, a beloved Berkeley independent bookstore known for its eclectic array of books and gardening gifts, is for sale. Owners Anne Leyhe and Marion ...

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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