Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26
A Walk Around A Room of One’s Own (1929) with Frances Spalding
This lecture will look at A Room of One’s Own from inside and out. The book was published in 1929. That same year, Virginia and Leonard Woolf decided to add another room to Monk’s House, where they spent part of each year.
As this room could not be entered from within the house but only through a door that opened into the garden, it became not just her bedroom but also her ‘room of one’s own’; shared, however, with her complete collection of Shakespeare, the covers of each volume enlivened with book jackets made by herself.
Professor Frances Spalding is the author of books on Vanessa Bell, the Bloomsbury Group, Stevie Smith, and many other topics. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 18 October 2025, live online
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Fees
£33.00 Full price
£28.00 VWSGB Members
£28.00 CAMcard Holders
£28.00 Students on a low income
Images of Woolf’s bedroom and Shakespeare bookshelf at Monks House, 2019 by Stephanie Taiber.
Virginia Woolf Season 2025-26
A Walk Around A Room of One’s Own (1929) with Frances Spalding
This lecture will look at A Room of One’s Own from inside and out. The book was published in 1929. That same year, Virginia and Leonard Woolf decided to add another room to Monk’s House, where they spent part of each year.
As this room could not be entered from within the house but only through a door that opened into the garden, it became not just her bedroom but also her ‘room of one’s own’; shared, however, with her complete collection of Shakespeare, the covers of each volume enlivened with book jackets made by herself.
Professor Frances Spalding is the author of books on Vanessa Bell, the Bloomsbury Group, Stevie Smith, and many other topics. She is an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
Saturday 18 October 2025, live online
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time
19.00-21.00 Central European Summer Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Fees
£33.00 Full price
£28.00 VWSGB Members
£28.00 CAMcard Holders
£28.00 Students on a low income
Images of Woolf’s bedroom and Shakespeare bookshelf at Monks House, 2019 by Stephanie Taiber.
