Virginia Woolf Season 6

Woolf’s Rooms

September 2025 to June 2026

Join us for a unique season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf. Our theme for 2025-26 is Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.

Rooms are important in all of Woolf’s novels, and are even named in two of her book titles: Jacob’s Room (1922) and A Room of One’s Own (1929). We will explore the ways in which rooms shape, or contain, the human lives within them. How do people connect (or not) in Mrs Dalloway’s party room? Why is the dining room so important in To the Lighthouse? Why is it difficult for us to picture Jacob in his own room, and what happens in the many rooms in The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937)?

And why is it so important for a woman to have a room of her own?

These sessions are all at 18.00-20.00 pm British time. Live online via Zoom. Most are on Saturdays, but the first session is on a Sunday.

• Sunday 21 September 2025. Lecture 1. Trudi Tate, To the Lighthouse (1927): The Dinner Party. Please note this is a Sunday.
• Saturday 18 October 2025. Lecture 2. Frances Spalding, A Walk Around A Room of One’s Own (1929)
• Saturday 15 November 2025. Lecture 3. Natasha Periyan on Rooms in Woolf’s Short Fiction (Kew Gardens and Other Short Fiction)
• Saturday 6 December 2025. Lecture 4. Alison Hennegan on Rooms for Women in A Room of One’s Own (1929).
• Saturday 10 January 2026. Lecture 5. Beth Daugherty on Room to Think in Woolf’s Essays.
• Saturday 21 February 2026. Lecture 6. Karina Jakubowicz on Jacob’s Room (1922).
• Saturday 21 March 2026. Lecture 7. Claire Davison on Orlando’s Rooms (1929)
• Saturday 18 April 2026. Lecture 8. Angela Harris on Rooms in Mrs Dalloway (1925)
• Saturday 16 May 2026. Lecture 9. Trudi Tate on Rooms in The Years (1937)
• Saturday 13 June 2026. Lecture 10. Ellie Mitchell on Rooms in The Waves (1931).

• Book all 10 sessions for the price of 9. Offer closes Sun. 21 September 2025 at 16.00 pm British Summer Time (just before the first lecture).

Bookings are open. Scroll down for booking pages

PRICES

Individual lectures

£33.00 full price
£28.00 Students on a low income
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB

Full season

£297 Full price for all 10 sessions (save £33)
£252 Students and CAMcard holders for all 10 sessions (save £28)
£252 Members VWSGB for all 10 sessions (save £28)

All prices include VAT at 20%

Book for the full season and get 10 sessions for the price of 9.

Recordings

Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for 48 hours. We hope this will be helpful to participants in various time zones, and to those who want to hear the lecture again. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.

Time Zones

These online sessions are at 18.00 British Time / 19.00 Central European Time / morning or early afternoon in American time zones. Each session lasts a maximum of 2 hours.

Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time: please note that clocks in Britain are on Summer Time in September 2025, and change to Greenwich Mean Time on 26 October 2025. In spring 2026, the clocks change from GMT to Summer Time on 29 March 2026.

If you cannot attend a session you have booked

Please note that, because places are limited, we cannot usually give refunds if you cannot attend a session. But if you contact us in advance, we can usually transfer your booking to a different session.

Zoom link

We will send you a zoom link by email approximately 24 hours before the lecture. If it does not arrive, please let us know by email in good time, at least an hour before the session, so we can re-send.

Selected Further Reading

Gillian Beer, Virginia Woolf: The Common Ground (Edinburgh University Press, 1996)
Clara Jones, Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (Edinburgh University Press, 2016)
Clare Jones, ed., Virginia Woolf and Capitalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2024)
Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (biography) (1996)
The Virginia Woolf Podcast, with Karina Jakubowicz
Anne Fernald, podcast on A Room of One’s Own today, 2022.
Suzana Zink, Virginia Woolf's Rooms and the Spaces of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
Alex Zwerdling, Virginia Woolf and the Real World (University of California Press, 1986)

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