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BBC Radio 4 this week begins a 10-part reading of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. Sally Minogue looks at the Modernist context as Woolf conceived and wrote her fourth novel.

Home and away: Stefania Ciocia takes a look at the genesis of Alcott’s ‘Little Men’ (1871) and its place in the March family saga

‘You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends’. David Stuart Davies looks at Joseph Conrad’s tale of a man’s mission to gain redemption after an act of cowardice.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘North and South’ is well recognised as a radical novel about social and economic divisions. But might it also cast light on British imperialism? Sally Minogue looks at a rich and many-sided novel.