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Afternoon Reading: Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party: The New Dress

Mrs Dalloway's Party

The New Dress

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway's Party

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Mabel instantly regrets choosing to wear her new yellow dress to Mrs Dalloway's party.

Mabel chooses a new yellow dress of a different style to wear to the party, but soon regrets her decision. Read by Amanda Root.

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 written in Woolf's distinctive style, glimpse each character's inner most thoughts and emotions as Woolf depicts the intriguing social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic detail.

In 'The New Dress', Mabel chooses a new yellow dress of a different style to wear to Mrs Dalloway's party. However, the moment she arrives she feels wishes she hadn't.

Read by Amanda Root

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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