The Essay | Open Endings : Bernardine Evaristo on Mrs Dalloway
Based on Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Bernardine Evaristo loathed Woolf's To the Lighthouse as a teenager. But when she read Mrs Dalloway a few years ago, she savoured every word. Today, she continues the story.
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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.