What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

‘Mrs Dalloway’ at 100

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, was published on May 14, 1925. Released to coincide with the centenary of one of Woolf’s most popular novels, Mark Hussey’s analysis concerns a productive and prolific period in the author’s life. (She had already gained a reputation as a modernist writer by publishing Jacob’s Room, had founded the Hogarth Press and was starting to consider the essays that would later become The Common Reader.) At fir…

Essay | 'It was over; thank Heaven—over': Reading Mrs Dalloway in a Post-Pandemic World - The London Magazine

Elizabeth Gourd May 14, 2025 ‘It was over; thank Heaven—over’: Reading Mrs Dalloway in a Post-Pandemic World . Opening one morning in the middle of June 1923, Mrs Dalloway spans a single day in the lives of its characters. As Clarissa Dalloway crosses Westminster to buy flowers for her party that evening, she observes the everyday traffic of London life – young men and women out walking their dogs, shopkeepers preparing their window displays and…

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

We started reading Mrs. Dalloway on a day not unlike the one that prompts Clarissa to think, “What a lark! What a plunge!” The air, lightly scented with spring flowers, refreshed the classroom where 25 students opened the final book they would read together in high school. Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to second-semester seniors, weeks away […]