Executive Producer, (the late) Bill Shepherd and his wife, screenwriter Eileen Atkins, invested their own money in the production and only narrowly avoided personal bankruptcy when it failed at the box-office.
The day Mrs. Dalloway (Vanessa Redgrave) was giving her party was June 13, 1923.
The dress the young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) wears the night of the boat outing is a replica of the dress in the John Singer Sargent painting "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw".