An Evening with Mark Hussey
Discussing His New Book with Blue Heron Books Owner, Jean Mills
Friday, July 25, 2025
6:00 - 8:00 PM
Blue Heron Books
High Falls, NY
Mark Hussey’s Mrs Dalloway: Biography of a Novel celebrates the publication 100 years ago of Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece. Mark’s book tells the story of how Woolf came to write the novel and explains its long (& continuing) afterlife. From 1925 to now, the many offspring of Mrs Dalloway include other novels, plays, operas, films, ballets, comics, memes, tattoos, London walks and a steady stream of social media posts whenever the purchase of flowers is involved. Woolf’s language lingers in the minds of countless readers and writers, who continue to reflect it in their own creations in ways both large and small.
Mark Hussey has written many books and articles about Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group. His 2021 biography of her brother-in-law Clive Bell was described by The Times of London as “like its subject … amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane.” That was followed in 2023 by Selected Letters of Clive Bell: Art, Love & War in Bloomsbury. Mark taught at Pace University in NY City for forty years and now lives in CT.
Mrs Dalloway, Biography of a Novel
Jean Mills
Jean Mills is a Virginia Woolf scholar, whose areas of expertise include Modernism, 20th century women’s literature, Peace Studies, especially literary approaches to peace, and the intellectual histories of women thinkers. She is the author of Virginia Woolf, Jane Ellen Harrison, and the Spirit of Modernist Classicism, (Ohio State University Press), and is currently at work on her book on Virginia Woolf and Philosophy, which will be published by Routledge in Fall 2025. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Feminist Modernist Studies and co-owner of Blue Heron Books in beautiful High Falls, NY.