Read-along
Mrs Dalloway to Dalloway Day
Ten readings through one June day in London, arriving on Dalloway Day.
- Next cohort
- Next cohort 7 June
- Length
- Length 10 days
Mrs Dalloway takes place on a single Wednesday in June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway, fifty-one, the wife of a Conservative member of parliament, goes out in the morning to buy the flowers for her party that evening. Across London, Septimus Warren Smith, a young veteran of the war, is coming apart on a bench in Regent's Park. The two never meet, and the book is about how close they come. Every year on the third Wednesday of June, Dalloway Day, London keeps the novel with walks along Clarissa's route. Ten readings, one a day, the last of them on Dalloway Day itself.
Read one big book alongside other readers, a day at a time. Cohorts set off on the date above.
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Day by day
- Day 1. Morning, WestminsterVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 2. Morning, Regent's ParkVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 3. Late morning, the drawing roomVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 4. Before noon, Regent's ParkVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 5. Noon, Regent's ParkVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 6. Noon, Harley StreetVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 7. Afternoon, WestminsterVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 8. Early evening, BloomsburyVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 9. Evening, a Bloomsbury hotelVirginia Woolf, 20 min
- Day 10. Night, Clarissa's partyVirginia Woolf, 20 min