We Are All Mrs Dalloway Now

Everyone has cracks; we hear that’s how the light gets in. Adeline Virginia Stephen wanted a life flooded with light. Marrying her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1912, she said she wanted “everything – love, children, adventure, intimacy, work”. In her masterpiece Mrs Dalloway, published a century ago, she wanted “all inner feelings to be lit up”. But so much light meant so many cracks.

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