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Afternoon Reading: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party: Episode 1: Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Mrs Dalloway's Party

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Episode 1: Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

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Mrs Dalloway runs errands and prepares to host an intriguing party.

Mrs Dalloway runs errands and prepares to host an intriguing party. Forgotten short story read by Sylvestra Le Touzel.

Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social event, Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the same time as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway. 

In each of these three stories, glimpse each character's inner most thoughts and emotions. as Woolf depicts the intriguing social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic detail.

This story, follows Mrs Dalloway as she runs errands and prepares for the party she's hosting...

Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel

Abridged by Miranda Davies
Producer:  Lucy Collingwood

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.

Afternoon Reading: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party

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Short story sequence written by Virginia Woolf at around the same time as Mrs Dalloway.

Virginia Woolf's forgotten short story sequence, written around the same time as her famous novel Mrs Dalloway.

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