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Women in 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925)
Women in 'Mrs Dalloway' (1925)
How does Virginia Woolf write about women in her great novel, 'Mrs Dalloway'? How sympathetic is the book to Clarissa, the central character, and how much does it mock her? What do these conflicting pressures mean?
Join Dr Trudi Tate as she explores how Woolf portrays the other women in the novel: Clarissa’s daughter Elizabeth, Miss Kilman, Rezia, and the servant, Lucy; and find out how Woolf imagines relations between women, and women’s place in the changing world of 1923.
Speaker
Dr Trudi Tate

Trudi Tate works on nineteenth and twentieth century British literature, with a particular interest in Virginia Woolf. She has published works on the Crimean War, literature of the First World War, recent refugee writings, and women writers of the early 20thC. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall and Director of Literature Cambridge: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk.
Reading list
Trudi Tate is editor of the new Oxford World's Classics edition of 'Mrs Dalloway', to be published in 2025.
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