Mrs. Dalloway

The following materials bring books to life and support both individual and group literature study. Use these resources to draw real-world connections, plan interdisciplinary lessons, inspire unique research projects, create enrichment activities, and support differentiated instruction.

• Virginia Woolf

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.

•  “Virginia Woolf’s Consciousness of Reality”

A 1954 New Yorker article by poet W.H. Auden discusses the publication of Woolf’s journals about her career as a writer and her interest in a mystical vision of life.

• Virginia Woolf’s ‘Mrs Dalloway'

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

• Great Lives: Sarah Pascoe on Virginia Woolf

In this BBC podcast, British comedian Sarah Pascoe discusses why she thinks if Woolf were alive today, she would be a comedian, using her diaries and letters as evidence of a witty, manic and egotistical Virginia.