Join curators Sigrid Anderson and Juli McLoone this Thursday, 5 September, 10-11a in the Hatcher Gallery Event Space for an informal conversation about the newly-installed exhibit Mrs. Dalloway and WWI: Home Front and War Front!
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. 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 curators will discuss the process of developing an exhibit around Mrs. Dalloway and provide a tour. As well as coffee and scones, refreshments will include one of Virginia Woolf’s own favorite recipes: a traditional English yeast bread called a cottage loaf.
We hope to see you there!
Mrs. Dalloway and WWI: Home Front and War Front is on display in the Hatcher Gallery Exhibit Room (1st floor, Hatcher Graduate Library) until 13 December 2024
Content Note: This exhibit includes references to suicide and post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which might be distressing for some visitors.