[Vwoolf] Mrs. Dalloway at 100

[Neverow, Vara S.]

My pleasure! I was amazed by the range of approaches and contexts.

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department and Women’s and Gender Studies Program
Managing Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu

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Vara, thank you so much, what a splendid array of Mrs Dalloway resources! Clarissa really has arrived, hasn't she? Even in Dublin, shortly before Bloomsday (which seems to have turned into Bloomsweek).

Sarah

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On Monday, 12 May 2025 at 16:07:47 BST, Neverow, Vara S. via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:


Charleston celebrates the centenary of Mrs Dalloway https: //www. charleston. org. uk/event/dalloway-100/ Harriet Baker comments on the centenary of Mrs Dalloway in The Times: https: //www. thetimes. com/culture/books/article/mrs-dalloway-virginia-woolf-review-glvcbj38s
Charleston celebrates the centenary of Mrs Dalloway
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Harriet Baker comments on the centenary of Mrs Dalloway in The Times:
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An article in Medium discusses the centenary of Mrs Dalloway
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Walk tours of Mrs Dalloway in London:
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Naomi Milthorpe writes an article for the Indian website Scroll.in:
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The Conversation.com offers observations about the centenary of Mrs Dalloway
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Jeanette Winterson provides observations about Mrs Dalloway’s centenary:
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University of Tasmania’s dedicates a webpage to Mrs Dalloway’s centenary:
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A conference on the centenary of Mrs Dalloway will be held in Ireland on 7 June 2025:
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A new hardback edition of Mrs Dalloway has been published by Penguin:
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Mrs. Dalloway: A New Musical opens in Cincinnati:
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And…in The Guardian’s newsletter "Bookmarks" (for which one has to sign up on this webpage: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters__;!!KGKeukY!3Qw1Io6qF5lsZVJvXRFr3lgipwuKYDWDCfDDcDjmyp25kX1KNfRpDxJ3VzKcr_X6j3URiiwo-8lZAfpkZ7661_t2wCbq$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters__;!!KGKeukY!yn-uuNZYb7q9ITMby4bQTOdm9AbeVKyDOxUgkohf1dExhbe4Cpsiz2KFH7eAjbFEBqT0dATmBoozMVtgoEsiBclOvWJv$>), Ella Creamer writes:

One of the most virtuosic novels of all time hits the big 100 on Wednesday, so for this week’s newsletter, it feels only right to celebrate it. I spoke to several novelists about why Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf is still a book that everyone should read, and take a look at the centenary celebrations.
Mrs Dalloway turns 100

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 Vanessa Redgrave in the 1997 adaptation of Mrs Dalloway. Photograph: RGR Collection/Alamy
It is a Wednesday in the middle of June 1923, and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing to throw an evening party.

The ensuing novel – Woolf’s love letter to London, originally called The Hours and later retitled Mrs Dalloway, published 14 May 1925 – is still frequently cited as a source of inspiration by leading contemporary writers (Deborah Levy<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEAaJ3AxXUyB7tGkFcTSzuLZkuKVGn_rsEv65wxEQk2sXOVtScShBHEfNzOmHGCh-G-O05Dmmd4uvEfjkm16teBRU2mtPsyJg6LtS1iLByYWr-aNDcTHDfXQ7knvoEYgNT49b82gyBrqXrWI8sBzGDASENYe2qSL_TiFoqJZBDZzURwSIxiV4Xt7S-rcNxL5D9Ri9PYSUWi86h0SZnp3_JQcvP6ESYxc6rg_qGZjsgHx1betKoE_rM2-gmEG-h5wsS3yGHM4coKlBmE8pixR0iBs1dmTGRgn0u61sDJ6ecwmrg/4ge/SzMQRc07Sc-yyKDSVjJlow/h44/h001.tPUBMmA4V5LkqYGMlK5qKWfC8lBkGf9eORykROaPthY__;!!KGKeukY!yn-uuNZYb7q9ITMby4bQTOdm9AbeVKyDOxUgkohf1dExhbe4Cpsiz2KFH7eAjbFEBqT0dATmBoozMVtgoEsiBQpfflpa$>, Elizabeth Strout<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEC5w0TK2CurWAcPfO7fsrPoIssH07fCjSjsgdXQsVN3uOLXBsrTRUmk-e4ifAF9jkLlZ2dHJ410AGpHYcQAslmIiTv7MI8KDmyo4ssZci4KSFopPCI3bdznV1biPjfvf64Pg2GsZTT72r5fLGVrKeDAD0vOr23TxW7SI5R-5vHBqYq2kEuetdNqxvRaf9HzaZPAJg6xQdzeHqrv60qVQqNGPmtF9kXZjlsuvxzhuyzJh19ZREE6nPnyup8PizWkyFd4JrxdrLwnYKjEdFHCczfq/4ge/SzMQRc07Sc-yyKDSVjJlow/h45/h001.CYMAbgc0YvihMPoWtDh1nb5S-W43_u8_rdcmnVTDz04__;!!KGKeukY!yn-uuNZYb7q9ITMby4bQTOdm9AbeVKyDOxUgkohf1dExhbe4Cpsiz2KFH7eAjbFEBqT0dATmBoozMVtgoEsiBQYBXlM_$>, and last year’s Booker winner Samantha Harvey<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.wtfWA9uPAn8i7Lb0U_hU2qclUiB2vlGH8Uzqw6VA05GOqGbKdURM2etu9vfkmI7i-q8Hcf95BKk_iOqp71-Imrl3u7ZGPHjIsZs1gqTRSL3hJPF17sAX6YugMAQYwNPUbImjyvnWXUSpJeGUbb6ZM4ZvxdFAzxyhbmg4NPsHgsAuF7g_AOxIQyremnOJHeP8nmJxakjdVlpViu8Gfke1bLwELuJ_c999KdP5V7WhJX6gaDUB7XvHSlV9nQO46VhmEFgeRl_61FPsVwpd-fWNuS1KAH9AoMQL5Au4tvSyd2w/4ge/SzMQRc07Sc-yyKDSVjJlow/h46/h001.xDOtkyvEcunZbqIVOOtPSmeJ7IcHZG2qvEwo-Kr6A0U__;!!KGKeukY!yn-uuNZYb7q9ITMby4bQTOdm9AbeVKyDOxUgkohf1dExhbe4Cpsiz2KFH7eAjbFEBqT0dATmBoozMVtgoEsiBSn3vs8v$>, to name just a few). What is the novel’s enduring appeal?

Novelist Caleb Azumah Nelson, who along with Levy and Edmund de Waal will perform new work inspired by the text at Charleston festival on Wednesday, said that returning to Mrs Dalloway (“it had been many years since I read the book”) was an incredible feast for the senses.

“The depiction of the city and the various portraits of all those running around inside it, all those tenuous connections made strong by Woolf’s writing, portraying the rich interior lives of everyday people, couldn’t be more relevant at a time when we’re less connected than ever.”

To mark the centenary, the Royal Society of Literature is also putting on an immersive adaptation by Helen Tennison, at the London Library on 11-15 June.

The performance is “faithful to the parallel internal and external voices” of the book: audience members wear earpieces which allow them to switch between the characters’ thoughts and external dialogue, said Mekella Broomberg, head of programme at the RSL.

Mrs Dalloway contains “so much at once”, Broomberg added. “Biting social satire, approaches to gender and sexuality and mental illness,” which have a contemporary feel. The RSL is also running a Dalloway-themed panel event at the British Library on 18 June.

Garth Greenwell, whose latest novel is Small Rain, said that for years he had students read the book in every workshop he taught. “Is there another novel that sustains such a pitch of inspired virtuosity, or that can serve so nearly as an encyclopedia of narrative possibilities?”

Woolf’s management of time and perspective are bewilderingly supple, he said. “But what has made the book such a landmark for later writers is how she suffuses the particulars of individual lives, the depths of individual conscious nesses, with a universal, even a cosmic meaningfulness. This makes Mrs Dalloway almost unbearably moving as an affirmation of human dignity.”

Megan Hunter, whose novel Days of Light attracted comparisons to Woolf, said that in Mrs Dalloway, “senses are not only described but continually transformed, so that the reader is offered a new way to perceive – and ultimately to exist within – the ‘infinite richness’ of the city”.

London “is presented almost as a lover: a body that breathes, quivers and dances, that bursts into flames of beauty. We are offered, over and over again, the chance to join this ecstatic June day, to feel the ‘exquisite joy’ of simply being alive, a hundred years later.”

I'm sure there will be many more webpages posted in the next few weeks.

Vara

Vara Neverow
(she/her/hers)
Professor, English Department
Editor, Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, CT 06515
203-392-6717
neverowv1 at southernct.edu


I acknowledge that Southern Connecticut State University was built on traditional territory of the indigenous peoples and nations of the Paugussett and Quinnipiac peoples.


Recent Publications:

Lead editor, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Kathryn Simpson, and Gill Lowe); Editor, Volume One, 1975-1984, Virginia Woolf: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2020); Co-editor, The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and Contemporary Global Literature (Edinburgh, 2020; with Jeanne Dubino, Paulina Pająk, Catherine Hollis, and Celiese Lypka)

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