Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel
Manchester University Press
May 2025
'Such personal touches, and the author’s almost palpable enthusiasm, enhance a lively and well-drawn portrait of the novel’s conception, birth and afterlife.' Vanessa Curtis, Times Literary Supplement
'Ultimately, Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a novel is more than just a behind-the-scenes look at a book―it’s a celebration of Woolf’s brilliance and a reminder of why her work still resonates so deeply. Whether you’re a long-time Woolf fan or just starting to explore her writing, Hussey’s book will make you appreciate Mrs. Dalloway all over again.' Trevor Berrett, The Mookse and the Gripes
'Full of delightful details' Zoe Guttenplan, Literary Review
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Even genius must revise, revise, revise. In this fascinating study, Mark Hussey provides not only behind-the-scenes glimpses of Virginia Woolf at work, but an examination of the novel’s complicated reception and still-widening influence, like the leaden circles of sound formed by Big Ben in Mrs Dalloway’s London:“Out it boomed.” Woolf’s memorable style, social critique, and experiments with point of view have left room for generations of readers to interpret the novel in their own evolving ways: the definition of a classic.
~Regina Marler, editor Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
(January 2023) NOW in Paperback
Edinburgh University Press
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"Considering the success of Mark Hussey’s biography of Clive Bell, it’s no surprise that his edition of Bell's letters is so perceptive and well-chosen. The letters show Bell at his best, whether debating his art theories or his pacifism or describing a picnic. Generous with friends, feisty with Philistines, he practiced a lost art of letter-writing as a gift and a performance: a 'significant form' in itself."
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– Regina Marler, editor of Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism
Now in paperback
Cormorant Garamond is a classic font with a modern twist. It's easy to read on screens of every shape and size, and perfect for long blocks of text.
“Mark Hussey does for Clive Bell what Hermione Lee did for Virginia Woolf: They bring their subjects to life with such wonderful detail. Highly recommended.” James Kearns amazon review 2024
About
Mark Hussey has published widely on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. He is General Editor of the Harcourt Annotated Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (for which he edited To the Lighthouse); on the editorial board of the Cambridge Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf (for which he edited Between the Acts); and a co-editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany. Modernism’s Print Cultures, co-written with Faye Hammill, came out in 2016 as part of Bloomsbury Academic’s New Modernisms series. His biography of Clive Bell is published by Bloomsbury (UK) and available in paperback. Selected Letters of Clive Bell: Art, Love and War in Bloomsbury is out in paperback from EUP. Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel was published in May 2025 by Manchester University Press on the exact centenary of Woolf's novel.
