Free Thinking | Bloomsday, Mrs Dalloway and 1922
Based on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
A theatre company who travelled Britain in a van in 1922, how James Joyce's eyesight troubles influenced his writing of Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs Dalloway.
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Writing Madness
Vivienne Parry takes her diagnoses of literary heroines into the 20th century and the age of Freud, the Great War and the explosion of the 'sciences of the mind'. Novels on the couch include Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night and Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway....interestingly with both novels there's a tendency to base the heroines on real people.
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The Secret Life of Books | Mrs Dalloway
Uncovering the stories behind the creation of six classic British books. Alexandra Harris shows how Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway re-imagined what a novel might be.