Mrs Dalloway 100 | Megan Hunter, Alex Clark & Tom Crewe
Sat 22 Nov 2025 | 10:00am - 11:00am
This year marks the centenary of the publication of Virginia Woolf’s ground breaking novel Mrs. Dalloway. Taking place during one day, Clarissa Dalloway prepares her house for a party and reflects on and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life. Virginia Woolf started writing Mrs Dalloway in 1922 as a short story. Its publication in 1925 was met with modest commercial success but the novel went on to become one of the most vital works of literature of the last century. Join our panel of experts as they discuss and celebrate what is considered to be Woolf’s greatest novel.
Chaired by Erica Wagner
Venue: Old Divinity School
Duration: 1 hour
Tickets available soon.
Speaker Biography
Megan Hunter is a prizewinning novelist, poet and screenwriter. Her first novel, The End We Start From was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Books Are My Bag Readers awards, longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary prize, was a Barnes & Noble Discover prize finalist and won the Foreword Reviews Editor’s Choice prize. It was adapted for feature film by Alice Birch, starring Jodie Comer. Her last novel, The Harpy (2020) is a mythical, yet contemporary novel of revenge and metamorphosis. It was Indie Book of the Month, and translated into multiple languages; she is currently adapting it for television.
Megan also writes poetry and essays; her writing has appeared in The White Review, the TLS, Literary Hub, Five Dials, Ladybeard, Aesthetica Magazine and BOMB. She teaches creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London and also worked for a number of years as a specialist mentor for disabled students at the University of Cambridge. She is currently working on her third novel, as well as further screenwriting projects. She is a By-Fellow at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge, and co-organiser of Something in Common, a series of cultural events and experiences.
Alex Clark is a broadcaster and journalist, who writes for many publications including the Guardian, the Observer, and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a co-host on the Graham Norton Book Club for Audible and hosts the TLS podcast. She is a professional chairperson and appears all over the UK at Cheltenham, Hay and the Southbank Centre. Alex is a festival Honorary Patron.
Tom Crewe was born in Middlesbrough in 1989. He has a PhD in nineteenth century British history from the University of Cambridge. Since 2015, he has been an editor at the London Review of Books, to which he contributes essays on politics, art, history and fiction. The New Life, his first novel, is out now from Chatto & Windus and Scribner. It will also be published in French, German, Spanish and Dutch.
Chair Biography
Erica Wagner was born in New York and moved to the UK in the 1980s becoming literary Editor for The Times in 1996; a position she held for 17 years. In addition to her career at The Times, Erica has published numerous articles and books, her first being Gravity, a collection of short stories; this was followed 3 years later by the publication of Ariel’s Gift. She has also written for The New York Times and frequently appears on television and radio. and has judged many of the literary World’s most prestigious prizes (The Orange Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and the Forward Prize). Erica was part of the panel of judges who declared Yann Martel’s Life of Pi the 2002 Man Booker Prize winner.
