The Secret Story Behind Mrs Dalloway

[@helengennari3061]

I remember my first connection with Mrs. Dalloway via an audiobook and it was so strong. So much about it grabbed me and never left. After that I wanted to read everything she had written. Thank you for sharing your insights, Eric.

[@Mario10016]

I just saw the movie THE HOURS. That is what brought me here. Thank you for posting this video and sharing your thoughts. I enjoyed it.

[@cherylynlarking191]

I recognised the flower shop at Herne Hill Station. Loved Mrs Dalloway and have been to the Bloomsbury group farm in Sussex and have done some of the tapestries that are in the house.

[@sheilakozmin9755]

Such a lovely video; I just finished reading Mrs. Dalloway for the very first time and I was searching for some internet resources to help me navigate better through her process. Luckily, I stumbled across your work here and I’m so happy I did. You are ever so enthusiastic and articulate. Thank you so much.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! I’m glad you enjoyed it and have connected with Woolf. Have you read The Waves yet? I’d highly recommend it.

[@janiceash8701]

Thank you for this special video..

[@KCRReads]

I think maybe the first utube I saw of your channel was the walk thru the area of 'Square Haunting'. I enjoyed it so much I subscribed. I've really enjoyed hearing about the books you have read and recommended since that first post. Today this popped up and it is wonderful! I love seeing the places authors write about and you are lucky to live in London, esp now. I'm going to get out my copy of Mrs Dalloway.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! That’s great to hear and thanks for taking the time to let me know. I do feel very lucky to live in beautiful London.

[@aprilsayco372]

Had watched the movie adaptation “The Hours”before reading the book..an intellectual book/story that makes me delve into knowing her more..her thoughts..feelings..emotions..that everytime i see a bunch of flowers,i can see the smile of Mrs.Dalloway 💖

[@napakvanich8811]

I get emotional watching your video, especially when you read the excerpt! Woolf is my favorite writer, and I agree with you that her writing is so beautifully packed you'll always always find something new rereading it.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

I'm glad you feel the same way! 📚

[@nataliey9227]

I've heard of this manuscript being published. WOW! Gorgeous and what an intimate experience. Thank you so much for giving us a tour of the book and beautiful London (both through Woolf's eyes and yours).

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thanks for watching! 📚💜

[@juliae.8237]

Thank you for not only sharing (geeking) the beautiful edition of Mrs. Dalloway, but doing it so thoughtfully and beautifully. What a wonderful video.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 📚💜

[@jstamps9578]

Thanks also for introducing many of us to SP Books.

[@theorangebook8857]

This was beautiful and so fascinating! I had no idea about the publication of this edition! I’ve had Mrs.Dalloway on my shelf for a couple of years now and have always felt that I would love it, but this made me want to pick it up straight away. As you were when reading Virginia Woolf’s notes in the manuscript, I am with second-hand copies of books: I love being able to read along with someone and see the book from a perspective other than my own!

[@dsarkar1681]

What a brilliant video!! I'm mesmerized, just finished Mrs Dalloway, it was my second Woolf, genius is the word for her craft.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you

[@angelah9690]

Finally reading Mrs Dalloway, my first book by Virginia Woolf. I always read about her but now I see the beauty in her writing having not studied literature but computer science for my degree. I now return to my first love, literature and catching up on missed reads is so much fun. Thank you for this video!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

That's wonderful! Hope you're enjoying discovering Woolf's writing and thank you for watching.

[@soniamalcisi8272]

Compliments for such a passion

[@malgudiswami]

Wow! Such a tribute to the author!

[@KendraWinchester]

Love this video. Such a great tribute to MRS DALLOWAY. Thank you for sharing. 💖

[@EricKarlAnderson]

So glad you think I did Clarissa justice! 📚💜

[@suzannegonzalez2630]

Love, love, love how you showed clips of London locations while reading passages from Mrs Dalloway! The only one of Virginia Woolf's books I've read is To the Lighthouse but I want to read the others for sure. Thanks!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thanks!

[@RunwrightReads]

This video presentation is both enlightening and artistic. Thank you for sharing this experience with us, Eric. It makes me want to reread Mrs Dalloway ASAP

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 😊 Hope you enjoy it. 📚❤️

[@atrixa1991]

Thank you for this great video! I'm going to pick up Mrs Dalloway at some point this year, but I was a bit hesitant as I read Orlando a few months ago and I didn't really get into it. You've just renewed my excitement for it :)

[@sharman814]

Thanks- Very nice ruminations. Just finished my 3rd reading. Didn’t want to let it go. You helped me hold on to it a little longer.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Yes, it’s such a pleasure revelling in Woolf’s prose.

[@marianryan2991]

Wow, how exciting. This video is a real treat too. Unfathomably I haven't read Mrs Dalloway, though I have read several of Woolf's novels. When I have rectified that I have this book too to look forward to. What a thrill to be able to read her manuscript. Thanks for this lovely video!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

We all have those books we haven't got to for some reason or another. Hope you enjoy Mrs Dalloway! Thanks for watching.

[@1zangelique]

Eric, along with the JCO videos you do, I think this is my all time fave video from you! I love Woolf and Mrs. Dalloway as well and can't wait to get my hands on that new book. Thanks so much!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you Gary! 📚💜

[@yvettem.holland5072]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. What a luxury for us to experience this manuscript with you! Thank you for this lovely experience, Eric.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! ☺️

[@reinhard0069]

Hi Eric. Fascinating video. Thanks very much. Be proud of being a Virginia Woolf geek! I'm a Katherine Mansfield fanatic. But ive been swathing myself in all things VW during lockdown.

[@faatimahfarhad1523]

I loved this so much, I absolutely love the way you talk about your favorite authors, your passion is so pure and VERY contagious (I am totally starting with JCO this summer!) and I've found myself recently enamored with Woolf (not just her books but her life, personality in general, she fascinates and excites me so much I haven't had the nerve to pick up her books, its weird but I'm afraid it will kill me) anyway, I was kind of forced to read To The Lighthouse for a university project and OH MY GOD, to say it blew me away would be an understatement, it brought me out of my reading slum, my sister laughed at me as I read more than half the book pacing my room because I couldn't sit down the way she makes you experience life from 10 dimensions spontaneously, its absolutely surreal. Definitely reading Mrs Dalloway in a month and then getting my hands on this original! ❤❤ Also, please talk about that memoir you recently reviewed on goodreads that's constructed around TTL.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 😊 Yeah there's so much there to unpick and muse over both in the books and concerning her life. You shouldn't be nervous about reading more of her books. It's good to have our point of view blown away like that sometimes. And yes, I'll be talking about Smyth's memoir in my next wrap up video. Thanks for watching. 📚❤️

[@sararichards518]

That was a great video. I love Mrs Dalloway as well. I had a summer of reading Woolf last year and that was fun. I need to go back to some of the novels as I’m sure I’ll find more in them as well. Loved the shots of London, Tha ms you! 😊💕🌷

[@EricKarlAnderson]

So glad you enjoyed it and the book! 😄📚

[@maeve-k5n]

you're so cute, you're like sunshine. I live in London too, and am currently studying Mrs Dalloway. maybe its because im 17, i really relate to Elizabeth

[@BemuzedBookworm]

Mrs Dalloway has been on my shelves for many years, watching this video has really made me super excited about it, so I might finally get around to it. Great video, as always!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you. And I hope you do read it! When you do get a chance please come back and let me know what you think. 🤗

[@hedgiecc]

Fabulous video! That Mrs Dalloway manuscript edition looks amazing, what a wonderful treasure to own 😊

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 📚🤗

[@LauraFreyReadinginBed]

Lovely! I should read Mrs. Dalloway soon. Thanks for sharing her London with us.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

🤗📚❤️

[@leslieh881]

Oh my. Beautiful. This was excellent! Thank you for being a Woolf geek. I’m going to pull my very old copy of Mrs. Dalloway off my shelf to reread.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Great! Hope you enjoy rereading. 📚💜

[@Koolhugo1]

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Your enthusiasm exudes through the video.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

😊📚

[@michelejuza4531]

What a lovely find! I am reading my first Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, and I am besotted with her writing. I decided to search booktube for any videos on her (or Mrs Dalloway) and I find this! Of course. 😊 There’s a reason you’re one of my favorite booktubers! Which of her books would you suggest I read next?

[@nancywysemen7196]

really enjoyable and rich presentation. love the doingness and looking about in current time.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you

[@josmith5992]

This looks a beautiful and fascinating book, thank you for showing it to us Eric.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thanks for watching!

[@theaelizabet]

This was fascinating! Thank you so very much for sharing this. I’m overdue for a Mrs. Dalloway reread, and one of To the Lighthouse, for that matter.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thanks for watching!

[@TootightLautrec]

This was a great geek-athon! I think I may be one of the few literate gay men I know who isn't head over heels with Woolf. I like her work, but have never LOVED her work. It's always fascinating to read an original version of a well-known work to see it in progress, and I love your enthusiasm and insights into her process of making this. I've only read it once, and this video has made me want to re-visit it. Perhaps I'll nudge ever-so-nearer to the love side of appreciation. Thanks.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! Yeah there's definitely a circle of worship around her. I think she writes in a way which is frequently just odd, but that makes it so intriguing to me. Unpicking all those layers and poetic imagery. Hope you enjoy her if you give her another whirl. 📚❤️

[@stuartleighton]

Nice video. I'm just finishing Mrs Dalloway... at first I hated it, as I am reading it in order to be able to help a student with the Extended Essay, which is what they are doing for an IB Assessment. I have to admit, I find the style of writing a bit hard going at times, but as I read more I really started to semi enjoy it and appreciate the style a little more than at first. Yes, it's great to notice the passing of the day as punctuated by Big Ben and also the visualisations of London's landmarks. I'll have to watch a few more KZbin videos to pick up on more of the novel that I missed when I read it. The Septimus thread of the story was very sad, though I didn't really pick up as I was reading it that Mrs Dalloway also had issues with mental instability.

[@eddie_d1233]

Such a wonderful video Eric! It makes me want to read it again.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you!

[@christinacascadilla4473]

Was The Hours the book they made that movie out of that they made fun of in the TV show “30 Rock”?

[@claudiaberger9560]

This was such an interesting video. That book is awesome!!!

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 📚💜

[@haroldleboeuf8648]

Yes I was there in 1974 and was so enraptured I wanted to live there! But alas I settled to be an avid fan and have read all their novels and many biographies .

[@juliequick5526]

It’s interesting to see two novels about 1981 appear in this list. I remember that year very well for its social unrest and rampant inflation. I lived in Bristol at the time and there was serious racial unrest there too. I’m saddened that society doesn’t yet include people in a way that prevents these divisions. I remain ever optimistic that these types of books will help tip the balance though 🤓

[@gudulla]

Absolutely wonderful

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 🤗

[@mohamadkebbewar6827]

I have a hard time reading Woolf but I will try again soon. I started with To the Lighthouse and I found it very difficult to read.

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Her writing is definitely challenging - especially at first. But I think if you give it time and get into the rhythm of the way she uses language it is so rewarding and wonderful!

[@EmiWoodScully]

Thank you for this analysis… I have a question: the sections that she removed about time… Are they included in that manuscript version?

[@jorgemedina8083]

Wonderful

[@EricKarlAnderson]

Thank you! 📚💜

[@christinacascadilla4473]

I regret that Éric was not my first boyfriend. Would have been perfect.

[@AragonaAlessandro]

OMG.HOW MUCH DID U PAY FOR IT??? THE MANUSCRIPT?? Wow