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Mrs. Dalloway

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1925

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This 1999 biography by Hermione Lee offers a layered and complex portrait of Woolf, the writer and woman, balancing issues like sexual abuse and mental illness with her remarkable literary achievement.

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This video produced by The British Library in 2016 features Professor Elaine Showalter discussing modernity, consciousness, gender and time in Woolf’s seminal novel.

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