Summer course 2025: A visit to Newnham College

Summer course
Written By Literature Cambridge

We had a wonderful visit to Newnham College as part of our 2025 Virginia Woolf Summer Course. Thanks to Librarian Eve Lacey for a most interesting talk about the history of the college and for showing us around the beautiful college library.

Thanks also to Ann Kennedy Smith for an excellent talk about Jane Harrison, friend of Virginia Woolf and a Fellow in Classics at Newnham. Ann’s talk took place in Clough Hall, where Woolf gave a talk on ‘Women and Fiction’ in 1928.

Photos by Jeremy Peters.

Our next summer course in Cambridge will take place 2-7 August 2026. Our theme is Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. Bookings open soon.

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