We are all Mrs Dalloway now

Mark Hussey’s new Mrs Dalloway is a biography of a novel by Woolf , relaying its conception, execution and propagation.

Woolf was of her modernist cohort, trying to find her artistic bearings after the moment “on or about December 1910 ”, as she put it, when “human character changed”.

Woolf wanted to show the world seen by the sane & the insane side by side.

Septimus , a shell-shocked veteran of the First World War , who fought to defend Shakespeare ’s England , does kill himself, and gives lie to the vision of art as individualisation.

In 1941 , Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse after finishing the book.