On May 14, 1925, a London flower shop became the unlikely threshold to literary history. It was the day Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway was published, introducing readers to Clarissa Dalloway, a poised ...
London: Hogarth Press, 1925. Dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. The portrayal of Virginia Woolf as a virginal ice-maiden in some of the biographies is counterbalanced by the sensuality of her ...