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Trudi Tate To the Lighthouse and Family History
In To the Lighthouse, Woolf thinks about the history of her own family and the marriage of her parents. And she thinks about families, marriages, and children more broadly. How are things changing for families, as women and men think differently (or not) about their roles; as children grow up through the end of the Victorian age, into the Great War? The book is set in the years 1909 to 1919.
Woolf once wondered if the book should be called an elegy. We might read it as a memorial to the Victorian family, its restrictions and frustrations, and also its joy and sense of life. The book is also very interested in the place of creativity, and different kinds of creativity, within the family structure.
With Dr Trudi Tate, Director of Literature Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. (Apologies, our original speaker for this date, artist Kabe Wilson, had to postpone his lecture.)
Saturday 6 February 2027
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
£28.00 Students on a low income
Image: Judith Bridgland, Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives
Trudi Tate To the Lighthouse and Family History
In To the Lighthouse, Woolf thinks about the history of her own family and the marriage of her parents. And she thinks about families, marriages, and children more broadly. How are things changing for families, as women and men think differently (or not) about their roles; as children grow up through the end of the Victorian age, into the Great War? The book is set in the years 1909 to 1919.
Woolf once wondered if the book should be called an elegy. We might read it as a memorial to the Victorian family, its restrictions and frustrations, and also its joy and sense of life. The book is also very interested in the place of creativity, and different kinds of creativity, within the family structure.
With Dr Trudi Tate, Director of Literature Cambridge and Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. (Apologies, our original speaker for this date, artist Kabe Wilson, had to postpone his lecture.)
Saturday 6 February 2027
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning or lunchtime in the Americas
Prices
£33.00 full price
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
£28.00 Students on a low income
Image: Judith Bridgland, Godrevy Lighthouse, St Ives