Eric Karl Anderson on the Secret Story Behind Mrs Dalloway

As I noted a few days ago, today, June 17, is Dalloway Day, an annual celebration of author Virginia Woolf’s 1925 modernist masterpiece, Mrs. Dalloway.

To mark this international day of celebration I share a wonderful video by Eric Karl Anderson, who on his YouTube channel describes himself as a “bearded book fan and blogger also known as LonesomeReader chatting about new fiction, book prizes, what I’m reading and what I want to read next.”

In the following 15-minute video, Eric not only talks about the published 1925 version of Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway but also the manuscript version published by SP Books in 2019. “[The manuscript version has] shown me how [Woolf’s] original version of the story was very different from the finished novel,” says Eric.





Related Off-site Links:
Mrs. Dalloway at 100 – Daphne Merkin (Air Mail, September 13, 2025).
Significance of Clarissa’s Parties in Mrs Dalloway – Riya Payal (TJBlogsBlog, August 10, 2018).
The Character of Septimus Warren Smith in Mrs Dalloway – Riya Payal (TJBlogsBlog, July 28, 2020).
The Relationship Between Clarissa and Septimus in Mrs Dalloway – Riya Payal (TJBlogsBlog, April 13, 2021).
Mrs Dalloway’s War Wounds – Lizzie Hibbert (Engelsberg Ideas, May 22, 2025).
Mrs. Dalloway: Secularism and Its Enchantments – Jared Marcel Pollen (Quillette, September 2, 2021).
Clarissa Dalloway’s and Septimus Smith’s Routes Through London – British Literature Wiki.

See also the previous Wild Reed post:
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