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Mrs Dalloway is set in 1923, nearly 5 years after the end of the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles had been completed in 1919, but other important treaties were negotiated over the next few years. Settling the peace was a long and often unjust process. This is an important context for understanding Woolf’s novel. The novel is in a sense a history of its own time, written 1923-24 and published in 1925.
At the same time, Mrs Dalloway is deeply interested in the individual lives and thoughts of the central characters. It is a novel about private lives and loves. It is also a novel about the war’s legacies of grief and injustice, and concerns about the future. What sort of Europe was being created by the peace treaties? What did the future look like; who was safeguarding the peace?
With Trudi Tate, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway (2025).
Saturday 19 December 2026
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
£28.00 Students on a low income
Mrs Dalloway is set in 1923, nearly 5 years after the end of the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles had been completed in 1919, but other important treaties were negotiated over the next few years. Settling the peace was a long and often unjust process. This is an important context for understanding Woolf’s novel. The novel is in a sense a history of its own time, written 1923-24 and published in 1925.
At the same time, Mrs Dalloway is deeply interested in the individual lives and thoughts of the central characters. It is a novel about private lives and loves. It is also a novel about the war’s legacies of grief and injustice, and concerns about the future. What sort of Europe was being created by the peace treaties? What did the future look like; who was safeguarding the peace?
With Trudi Tate, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge and editor of the Oxford World’s Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway (2025).
Saturday 19 December 2026
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
£28.00 Students on a low income