Mrs Dalloway

‘Mark Hussey’s Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel contains the whole world of Woolf’s novel: contexts, influences, creation, criticisms. With immaculate scholarship and amazingly wide-ranging, the biography reads like a collection of fascinating short stories. A must buy!’
Maggie Humm, author of The Bloomsbury Photographs

‘One hundred years after the publication of Mrs Dalloway, Mark Hussey has written an incisive biography of Woolf's novel, one that's as multifaceted and searching as its subject. Hussey's book is a gift to readers hoping to learn more about the conception, birth and enduring life of a profoundly influential work of art.’
Katharine Smith, author of All the Lives We Ever Lived

‘A remarkably thorough, thoughtful, even affectionate book. The publishing section is particularly illuminating and confirms that it’s never been easy to publish ground-breaking work!’
Lennie Goodings, Chair, Virago Press

‘Mark Hussey’s biography of Mrs Dalloway is a unique account of how the book came to be, the knowledge and experience that went into it, and the way the world has responded to it. Focused in detail and expansive in scope, it is also a pleasure to read.’
Edward Mendelson, Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University

‘Mark Hussey’s fascinating biography of Mrs Dalloway is truly astounding in its encyclopaedic range and depth: taking the reader on a riveting journey through the composition, publication and global afterlives of this iconic novel.’
Anna Snaith, Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature, King’s College London