Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional upper-class woman in post-First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.
First edition dust jacket, 1925; cover art by Vanessa Bell
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf in 1902
Leslie Stephen, 1860
Julia Stephen, 1867
Julia Stephen and Virginia, 1884