Dalloway

During summers in small towns across America, air sirens will periodically ring out to signal all manner of things. In Mount Kisco, New York, they are used — still — …

Mrs. Dalloway always had gray hair. She first appears in Virginia Woolf’s debut novel, The Voyage Out (1915)—trilling, ladylike, often imperious, and looking “like an eighteenth-century masterpiece,” with a pink …