Women's Freedoms through The Years. Sat. 9 Dec. 2023

Virginia Woolf Season IV: Woolf and Freedom

Lecture 4. Rehoming the Angel in the House: Women's Freedoms through The Years

Virginia Woolf's 1937 novel The Years spans several decades, beginning in 1880 and ending in the 'present day' of its publication. In that time, its female characters gain access to a range of new and changing freedoms – to vote, to work, to write, to love.

This lecture will trace those freedoms and Woolf's depictions of them by focusing on the fates of three material things, belonging to and used by women, which appear throughout the novel – the Pargiters' tea-kettle, the portrait of Mrs Pargiter, and the Pargiters' writing desk. In what ways do women interact differently with these things through the years? What happens to them? & what new significances do they take on as the women who use them begin to live freer lives?

Live online lecture and seminar with Ellie Mitchell, University of St Andrews.

Saturday 9 December 2023
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas

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Set Reading
Virginia Woolf, The Years (1937; Oxford World’s Classics)

Optional Further Reading
Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (biography) - chapter on The Years.
Brian Michael Moore, ‘Parnellian Silences in Virginia Woolf’s The Years’, Cambridge Quarterly (2022). https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/bfab031

Price
£32.00 Full price
£27.00 Students, CAMcard holders
£27.00 Members of the VWSGB

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