Mrs. Dalloway and WWI: Home Front and War Front

Event details
When

September 3 - December 13

Where

Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room, Hatcher Library North

Event typeExhibit

This exhibit explores the characters of Mrs. Dalloway through the lens of WWI and its aftershocks. It looks at those who fought in the trenches and those who watched from afar.

The exhibit includes references to suicide and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which might be distressing for some visitors. Viewer discretion is advised.

While all of the action in Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece takes place on a single day, as preparations are made for Clarissa Dalloway’s evening party, Woolf’s stream of consciousness writing takes us in the characters’ minds all the way from English drawing rooms to colonial India to the trenches of World War I.

Plan to attend Coffee with the Curators | Mrs. Dalloway and WWI on September 5th.

Join us for Making Books with Virginia Woolf on September 12.

"Virginia Woolf seated in an armchair looking toward a window: black and white photograph, undated,” Virginia Woolf Monk’s House photographs, Houghton Library, Harvard University Library.

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Library contact

Juli McLoone · jmcloone@umich.edu

Event contact

Sigrid Anderson · sigrid@umich.edu

Library events are free and open to the public, and we are committed to making them accessible to attendees. If you anticipate needing accommodations to participate, please notify the listed contact with as much notice as possible.