VCE Literature Texts: Mrs Dalloway

A brief overview of the formation and founding members of the Bloomsbury group, in which Virginia Woolf participated.

A comprehensive overview of the influence of the city of London on Woolf's writing, featuring highlights of her work from the The British Library collection

A comprehensive overview of the life and career of Virginia Woolf. You will need to be logged into GenConnect to access Britannica.

A brief overview of the life and career of Virginia Woolf.

A brief overview of the life and career of Virginia Woolf.

A comprehensive overview of the timeline of World War I.

A comprehensive overview of Modernism, a form of artistic expression that developed in the early twentieth century in response to huge societal changes, such as industrialisation and World War I.

A concise overview of Modernism as a philosophical and artistic movement, including background and development and key artists.

A summary and overview of the form and context of the novel.

A concise summary of Mrs Dalloway, including an overview of the form and influence on the work.

View the original notebook in which Virginia Woolf wrote Mrs Dalloway. It is interesting to see the stream-of-consciousness style and the story develop in the author's handwriting.

View a list of related fiction books in our library, connecting to either the style or themes.

A brief overview of the stream-of-consciousness narrative technique that developed in the early twentieth century.

Professor Elaine Showalter explores modernity, consciousness, gender and time in Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking work, Mrs Dalloway. The film is shot around the streets of London, as well as at the British Library and at Gordon Square in Bloomsbury where Virginia and her siblings lived in the early 20th century. The film offers rare glimpses into the manuscript draft of the novel.

First hand accounts of the varied experiences of shell shock in World War I.

This essay explores how emotions and feelings are situated in the resonating movements between the bodies in Mrs. Dalloway. You will need to be logged into the State Library of Victoria to access this article.

A critical essay on Mrs Dalloway as modernist trauma literature. You will need to be logged into the State Library of Victoria to access this article.

A study guide for Mrs Dalloway, featuring plot summaries, characters, themes, symbols, quotes and discussion questions.

A study guide for Mrs Dalloway, including summary and analysis, themes, quotes, characters and symbols. Some content requires a subscription.

A study guide for Mrs Dalloway, including summary and analysis, themes, quotes, characters and symbols. Some content requires a subscription.

Elaine Showalter describes how, in Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf uses stream of consciousness to enter the minds of her characters and portray cultural and individual change in the period following the First World War.

Mrs Dalloway, which takes place on one day in June 1923, shows how the First World War continued to affect those who had lived through it, five years after it ended. David Bradshaw explores the novel's commemoration of the dead and evocations of trauma and mourning.