Mark Hussey "Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel"

Biographers in Conversation · Feb 25, 2026 · 1h 3m

In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Mark Hussey chats with Gabriella Kelly-Davies about Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel.

Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel was published exactly 100 years after Virginia Woolf’s famous novel appeared.

Why Mark Hussey portrayed Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway as a living subject with its own life story.

Why Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel is considered as an object biography.

Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel follows Woolf’s story chronologically from its first creative stirrings in her diary…