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Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, set on a June day in 1923, is unusual in that its two protagonists – society hostess Clarissa Dalloway and shell-shocked veteran Septimus Smith – never meet.

As Mrs Dalloway turns 100, here’s a guide to the greatest hits of one of the most celebrated British novelists of all time

THE READING LIST: As Virginia Woolf’s fourth novel turns 100, Katie Rosseinsky speaks to experts about how this dazzlingly experimental work still has readers and writers under its spell

A series of scattered recollections and reflections form the basis for this intimate, abstract memoir that riffs on human interdependence

London is a living, breathing anthology of stories. From Soho to Dalston, every corner whispers tales of those who dared to be different. It’s in these streets that Oscar Wilde once walked, where Virginia Woolf penned her thoughts, and where countless unnamed heroes lived authentically, even when the world wasn’t…

In a year filled with centenaries of famous novels, including Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Franz Kafka’s The Trial, another novel also quietly turns 100. William was published in 1925 by the once-celebrated, now largely forgotten, E.H. Young.

She was the overshadowed member of the iconic group. But now, with a major exhibition not far from the house she turned into a work of art, Bell is finally getting her due. And she’s not the only one

The island is easy to reach by ferry and explore by bus, following in the footsteps of everyone from a Victorian poet to a 60s rock star

The Australian writer’s decision to publish her diaries in her own lifetime – subjecting herself to scorching observations on self-doubt and unravelling marriages – makes for a wonderfully rich and rewarding read

A debate is raging over the future of a council building used for art exhibitions as public services in the Sussex town are squeezed

Planning application reignites row over statue on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile of Elsie Inglis, Scottish suffragist and maternal health pioneer