Calendar of
literature sessions
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2025 Summer Course
Virginia Woolf Season. Orlando
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 7. Claire Davison on Orlando’s Bedrooms.
Virginia Woolf Season. Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 8. Angela Harris on Rooms in Mrs Dalloway (1925).
Virginia Woolf Season. The Years
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 9. Trudi Tate on Rooms in The Years (1937).
Virginia Woolf Season. The Waves
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 10. Ellie Mitchell on Rooms in The Waves (1931).
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. Summer Course Live Online
We will run the Woolf Summer Course twice in 2026 - once live online in July, and again as an in-person course in Cambridge in August. Our theme is Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. This is the page linking to the live online course.
We will study five novels by Woolf: Jacob’s Room, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, Between the Acts.
The live online course has 5 days of lectures, seminar, supervisions, talks and more, Thursday to Monday, including the weekend. An intense and memorable experience. Do join us.
2026 Summer Course in Cambridge: Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Summer Course in Cambridge. Five days’ intensive study on Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. This course takes place in person in Cambridge, Monday 3 August to Friday 7 August 2026. Arrive in Cambridge Sunday late afternoon for a welcome dinner and lecture.
We study: Jacob’s Room, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years. Plus talks, visits, and more.
Participants arrive in the afternoon of Sunday 2 August and depart on the morning of Saturday 8 August 2026. OR stay an extra day for an optional trip to Monk’s House and Charleston on Saturday 8 August; depart Sunday 9 August. Details on the booking page.
Woolf Season: Between the Acts
Virginia Woolf Season.
Mark Hussey on Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941). Live online lecture and seminar.
Virginia Woolf Season. Jacob’s Room
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 6. Karina Jakubowicz on Jacob’s Room (1922).
Virginia Woolf Season. Woolf’s Essays.
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26. Woolf’s Rooms. Lecture 5. Beth Rigel Daugherty, Living and Thinking in the Rooms of Woolf’s Essays.
Virginia Woolf Season. A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26: Woolf’s Rooms.. Lecture 4. Alison Hennegan, Rooms for Women in A Room of One’s Own (1929).
Virginia Woolf Season. lecture 3
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26. Lecture 3. Natasha Periyan on Rooms in Virginia Woolf’s short fiction.
Virginia Woolf Season. Lecture 2
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26. Lecture 2. Frances Spalding, A Walk Around A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Virginia Woolf Season. Lecture 1
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26. Lecture 1. The Dinner Party in To the Lighthouse (1927) with Trudi Tate.
Please note this session is on a Sunday, but the rest of the Season’s lectures are on Saturdays.
Woolf in August 2025: Sapphic Love in Orlando
August Lectures 2025. We repeat some lectures from previous Woolf Seasons, in case you missed them. All live online.
Alison Hennegan on Sapphic Love in Orlando (1928)
Woolf in August: Politics in Mrs Dalloway
Woolf in August 2025. Mark Hussey on Politics in Mrs Dalloway (1925).
Woolf in August 2025: Mrs Dalloway: War Trauma 6 pm
August Lectures 2025. We repeat some lectures from previous Woolf Seasons, in case you missed them. All live online.
Trudi Tate on War Trauma and Loss of Freedom in Mrs Dalloway (1925). Afternoon session: 6.00 pm to 8.00 pm British Summer Time.