Like the fictional character she inspired, Matilda was at the center of a civil war, fighting her own relatives for control of the royal throne.

In The Miscellany of Iskandar Sultan, sections of text stack on top of one another, interlaced like fretwork. Bursts of flowers and tangles of vines fill the empty spaces.

Mrs. Dalloway was published on May 14, 1925. We look at the book 90+ years on.