Ranked #2 in Modernism, Ranked #3 in 1920S — see more rankings.
Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Mrs. Dalloway from the world's leading experts.
Charles Fernyhough Woolf is interested in the intersections between minds. She’s trying to show how minds bleed into each other. (Source)
Maria Sveland It’s one of the saddest books I’ve ever read. I could really identify with Clarissa, this empty, poor person who is going out to find some flowers for a party. At the same moment, we are following her out into the beautiful morning as the story starts. It’s clear very soon that Clarissa is a woman who has lost her soul among all the duties and conventions of a boring marriage. That loss is so overwhelming and confusing that she loses contact even with her own body. She describes feeling young, but at the same time really old. I don’t know why I identified with her so strongly. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Mrs. Dalloway is ranked in the following categories:
- #33 in 20th Century
- #81 in Abstract
- #91 in Class
- #23 in English Writer
- #96 in Feminism
- #79 in Flower
- #69 in Gilmore Girls
- #16 in Graduate School
- #13 in London
- #97 in Modern
- #94 in Modern Classic
- #3 in Modernist
- #60 in Suicide
- #54 in Time
- #35 in UK
- #12 in University
- #46 in Women
- #79 in World War I