Virginia Woolf, born in 1882, was the major novelist at the heart of the inter-war Bloomsbury Group. Her early novels include
The Voyage Out,
Night and Day and
Jacob's Room. Between 1925 and 1931 she produced her finest masterpieces, including
Mrs Dalloway,
To the Lighthouse,
Orlando and the experimental
The Waves. Her later novels include
The Years and
Between the Acts, and she also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, journalism and biography, including the passionate feminist essay
A Room of One's Own. Suffering from depression, she drowned herself in the River Ouse in 1941.
Virginia Woolf's masterpiece, now in a beautiful clothbound edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith
'One of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham
Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Smith's day interweaves with that of Clarissa and her friends, their lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax. Virginia Woolf's masterly novel, in which she perfected the interior monologue, brings past, present and future together on one momentous day in June 1923.
Edited by Stella McNichol with an Introduction and Notes by Elaine Showalter
