The New Dress

A yellow dress. A party full of strangers. A spiral of self-doubt. In The New Dress, Virginia Woolf delivers a powerful psychological portrait of Mabel Waring—a woman whose excitement about wearing a new yellow dress quickly unravels into shame, anxiety, and self-loathing at a high-society gathering. With haunting detail and stream-of-consciousness brilliance, Woolf captures the inner turmoil ...