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The Book Club

15. Mrs Dalloway: Woolf, Sexuality, and Change

The Book Club

Goalhanger

Arts, Books, Education, History

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2026

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

What does Mrs Dalloway express about female sexuality and experience? Why did its modernist style cause such controversy? And, what was Virginia Woolf really like? Join Dominic Sandbrook and Tabitha Syrett as they delve into the fascinating story behind the writing of Mrs Dalloway, the world it was born of, and the novel itself. Email us: ⁠⁠thebookclub@goalhanger.com⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@bookclubpodhq⁠⁠ TikTok: ⁠⁠@thebookclubpodhq⁠⁠ X: ⁠⁠@bookclubpodhq⁠⁠ YouTube: ⁠⁠@TheBookClubPodHQ⁠⁠ Senior Producer: Nicole Maslen Assistant Producer: Alfie Norris Social Producer: Harry Balden Video Editor: Joe Pettit Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Right, home from work, walk the dog, kids are back.

0:04.4

Mom!

0:05.0

Up the stairs for something.

0:07.8

Ugh, back down, no idea what I went up for.

0:12.0

Mom, what's for dinner?

0:13.6

Chop, sizzle, done.

0:17.1

Hello, fresh, can't slow life down, but it makes bringing everyone together around the table a whole lot easier.

0:23.6

So it's phones down, forks up.

0:25.6

Hello Fresh. Bring back dinner time.

0:27.6

Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

0:44.5

For Lucy had her work cut out for her.

0:46.8

The doors would be taken off their hinges, Rumpelmaire's men were coming,

0:50.8

and then thought Larissa Dalloway,

0:52.6

what a morning, fresh as if issued to children

0:55.3

on a beach, what a lark, what a plunge, for so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little

1:00.5

squeak of the hinges, which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged

1:05.9

at Borton into the open air. How fresh, how calm, stiller than this, of course. The air was in the early

1:13.2

morning, like the flap of a wave, the kiss of a wave, chill and sharp, and yet, for a girl of 18,

1:19.5

as she then was, solemn, feeling as she did standing there at the open window that something

1:24.9

awful was about to happen, looking at the flowers, at the trees,

1:29.0

with the smoke winding off them and the rooks rising, falling, standing and looking until Peter

1:34.0

Walsh said,

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