Book To the Lighthouse - Lecture for Peace

Trudi Tate, Women in To the Lighthouse (1927)

This lecture looks at women in Woolf’s great novel, with a focus on the main characters, Mrs Ramsay and Lily. Woolf has a rich sense of the many differences between women, and of the complexities of women’s relationships with one another.

Mrs Ramsay and Lily represent very different ways of being a woman in the early twentieth century. Mrs Ramsay is a Victorian; Lily is striving to be a modern woman. What do these positions mean; and what do they cost? Both women are creative in their different ways; how does Woolf think about creativity in this period? The book is set in the years surrounding the First World War, a time of great change.

The book explores the lives of women through a complex period of peace and war in the early twentieth century.

All proceeds will be shared equally between the charities below. We hope to contribute in some small way to those who work for peace today.

Saturday 22 June 2024
6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time
7.00-9.00 pm Central European Summer Time
Morning / lunchtime in the Americas

We are supporting these charities:

• Oxfam Gaza
• Standing Together (Palestinian and Israeli joint peace campaign)
• Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (helps refugees in the UK)