Conservation at Monk's House Learn about the conservation work carried out by the National Trust at Monk's House, from restoring shawls to protecting wildlife in the garden.

100 years of Mrs Dalloway 🌿

The National Trust is restoring Virginia Woolf’s only surviving garment, a shawl from 1933, now too fragile to display.

Help ensure this rare piece of Woolf’s world endures.

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As 'Mrs Dalloway' celebrates its 100th anniversary, it is impossible to ignore its influence on modern writers. Where do you see traces of 'Mrs Dalloway' in your favourite contemporary reads? #MrsDalloway100 #VirginiaWoolf #ContemporaryLiterature

A copy of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, with the Hogarth Press original cover illustration by Vanessa Bell, stands behind a bouquet of garden sweet peas in shades of cream, blue, mauve, purple and blush pink.

A Wednesday in mid-June … How could I have almost forgotten this very special #DallowayDay?
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View of a desk cluttered with notebooks, dictionaries, electronic devices, and bibelots, in a room of bookcases stacked with nonfiction, and an upright desk with a portable typewriter, notebooks, framed photographs and art prints.

Photograph of a portable typewriter next to a boxed zen garden, potted plan, empty bottles and cans, on a cloth covered table in front of windows beyond which the dark night can be seen.

Bookcases of nonfiction alphabetised by author or editor surname (from Deborah James and Henry James through Thomas Pakenham and Orhan Pamuk).

Bookcases of nonfiction alphabetised by author or editor surname (from Nietzsche through Bertrand Russell on the left, and from Peter Ackroyd through J.M. Cortzee in the centre and to the right).

At night in the #LateImperialLibrary, [s]till remembering how once in some primeval May she had walked with her lover […] a man who had loved her. But the passage of ages had blurred the clarity of that ancient May day" – #MrsDalloway100.

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Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece Virginia Woolf was a messy writer. Her surviving drafts are often stained by cigarette ash or a dog’s pawprints. The large wooden tables she preferred in her writing rooms were covered with manuscr…

To celebrate 100 years since the publication of the modernist masterpiece, Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, head to @literaryhub.bsky.social for an exclusive extract from the introduction to @markhussey.bsky.social's new biography of the novel:
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“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
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