"Literature is open to everybody.  I refuse to allow you, Beadle though you are, to turn me off the grass.  Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."    (Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 75-76)

 

Below are several more URLS to explore as time permits. 

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/w/woolf/virginia/w91md/
E-text of <Mrs. Dalloway>

http://www.uah.edu/woolf/dalcom.html
Excerpts from Virginia Woolf's diary about her work on <Mrs. Dalloway>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Dalloway
Wikipedia entry (and links)

http://www.readinggroupguides.com/guides3/mrs_dalloway1.asp
Reading group guide: discussion questions on the novel

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/themes/englishlit/virginiawoolf.html
British Library: background on Virginia Woolf

http://www.ipl.org/div/litcrit/bin/litcrit.out.pl?ti=mrs-232
Internet Public Library links to electronic secondary sources on the novel

 

Heidi Dore’s article:  "To the Lighthouse and Beyond":  http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/trlout_gfx_en/TRA15139.html    

Richard van Busack’s review of film adaptation of Mrs. Dalloway:  http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/03.05.98/mrs-dalloway-9809.html  

Stanley Kauffman’s review of film version of Mrs. Dalloway:  http://www.world-net.net/home/dguthrie/rupert/oneday.html   

Eileen Atkins’s article on “Adapting Mrs. Dalloway” into film:  http://www.scenariomag.com/archives/v5n1/dalloway_talk.html   

Biographical sketch of Eileen Atkins:  http://www.filmbug.co.uk/db/62146

Megan O’Rourke’s review of the film, “The Hours”  http://slate.msn.com/id/2076387

Lauren Gold’s review of the film, “The Hours”:  http://www.smmirror.com/volume4/issue33/virginia_woolf_on.asp   

Joseph Phelan and Colin Pearce’s review of the film, “The Hours”:  http://www.claremont.org/writings/030214phelanpearce.html