Mrs Dalloway with Alexandra Harris
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Virginia Woolf in Westminster. The biographer Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns (2010), haunts the streets of Westminster with Henry. They discuss Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, tracing the course of the novel as it unfolds over a single day, visiting Bond Street, Regent’s Park and Tavistock Square. They also meet Edgar Jones, Professor in the History of Medicine and Psychiatry at King’s College London, a leading authority on shell shock.   Penguin Modern Classics edition of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/57014/mrs-dalloway/9780241436271.html   Alexandra Harris https://www.alexandraharris.co.uk/ https://twitter.com/alexhharris   Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris https://thamesandhudson.com/romantic-moderns-english-writers-artists-and-the-imagination-9780500251713   Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris https://thamesandhudson.com/woolf-9780500515921   Edgar Jones https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/edgar-jones   See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
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