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The Housekeeper by Rose Tremain review – a bloodless origin story for Du Maurier’s Rebecca

The novelist has expanded her devastating 2014 short story about an imagined affair between Daphne du Maurier and a fictional Polish-Jewish housekeeper

The Guardian - UK · 19h ago

Mrs Dalloway review – Virginia Woolf’s party planner plays all the roles herself

Kit Green takes on all the characters in an imaginative interpretation of the 1925 day-in-the-life novel

The Guardian - UK · Jun 3

How to read the classics in an age of distraction – and 3 short books to get you going

Over the past 15 years, I have witnessed university students’ shrinking patience for reading – especially for reading “long” books. Increasingly, students also opt for audiobooks. While speeding up the reading experience, these fundamentally change what is noticed.

The Conversation · May 4

A century of Clarissa: Why Mrs Dalloway will forever fascinate us

THE READING LIST: As Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel turns 100, Katie Rosseinsky speaks to experts about how this dazzlingly experimental work still has readers and writers under its spell

The Independent UK · May 14, 2025

Once a bestseller, now forgotten – why William by E.H. Young deserves a revisit

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

The Conversation · Apr 22, 2025

Friday essay: Seize the day – Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway at 100

I’m at the park with my daughter, who is jumping in and out of puddles, splashing, shrieking at me (Mum! Look what I can do!), as I read frantically, taking one-handed notes on my phone (Mum! Look at this!). Part of me wishes I could enjoy with her this moment…

The Conversation · Jan 30, 2025

Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway

A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November

The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2024

A wealthy housewife longs to go wild, in a brilliant riff on Virginia Woolf

A storm is brewing, both literal and metaphoric, in “the suburbs of the east”. In a burst of poetic and darkly humorous prose, Miranda Darling’s Thunderhead unleashes the turbulent interior life of its protagonist, Winona Dalloway, onto the page.

The Conversation · Jun 24, 2024

Richard Ford: ‘I don’t read for comfort. Comfort I source elsewhere’

The Pulitzer prizewinning author on taking life lessons from Chekhov, warming to Woolf and reading Larkin on loop

The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023

Virginia Woolf would have loved The Great British Sewing Bee – as three of her novels prove

The Great British Sewing Bee is back. The BBC reality show sees 12 amateur sewers compete in increasingly difficult stitching challenges, all hoping to be crowned the Sewing Bee champion. Now in its ninth series, the backstories of this year’s contestants show how sewing often provides an intimate, material connection…

The Conversation · Jun 13, 2023