Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel, Mrs Dalloway, was first published in 1925. It was easily her most ambitious experiment to date both in terms of form and of psychological representation. Its account of a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway (and of the tragic suicide of her `double’, Septimus Warren Smith), remains, with To the Lighthouse (1927), on of Virginia Woolf’s two most widely read novels.
In addition to Morris Beja’s introduction, notes, and collated variants, this edition provides a map of `The London of Mrs Dalloway’ and a frontispiece, reproducing a page from the corrected proofs. Virginia Woolf’s `Introduction’ to the 1928 Modern Library Edition of the novel appears as an appendix.