Discovered: a lost possible inspiration for Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
A painting by Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell that went missing for 60 years will go on show in London in November Clarissa Dalloway, the heroine of one of Virginia Woolf’s best-loved novels, is “always giving parties to cover the silence”. The story, Mrs Dalloway, closely follows a London society hostess as she prepares for an…