Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf born in 1882 was the major novelist at the heart of the interwar Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include The Voyage Out Night and Day and Jacobs Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces including Mrs Dalloway To the Lighthouse Orlando and the experimental The Waves. Her later novels include The Years and Between the Acts and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism journalism and biography including the passionate feminist essay A Room of Ones Own. Suffering from depression she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.Virginia Woolfs masterpiece now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie BickfordSmithOne of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century Michael CunninghamClarissa Dalloway elegant and vivacious is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shellshock and on the brink of madness. Smiths day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolfs masterly novel in which she perfected the interior monologue brings past present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923. Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine ShowalterGB