Mrs Dalloway's Party: A short story sequence

A collection of seven short stories, including "The New Dress" and "Together and Apart". In "The New Dress", a nervous young woman frets that her fellow guests are laughing at her yellow silk dress while "Together and Apart" explores what happens to two people meeting for the first time in Clarissa Dalloway's drawing room.

VIRGINIA WOOLF was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. From 1915, when she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf maintained an astonishing output of fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography. In 1912 she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917 they founded The Hogarth Press. Virginia Woolf suffered a series of mental breakdowns throughout her life, and on March 28, 1941 she committed suicide.