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Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Live Online Summer Course 2026
Join us for an intensive five-day course, live online. We study five of Woolf’s great novels, exploring her interest in the natural world: the sea, woods, clouds, trees, gardens, birds, and much else. All of Woolf’s books, even those set largely in cities, are deeply interested in the presence of nature and with human relations with the natural world.
Lecture list
Thursday 9 July 2026. Alison Hennegan, Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room (1922)
Friday 10 July 2026. Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in To the Lighthouse (1927)
Saturday 11 July 2026. [Lecturer tbc], Land and Sea in The Waves (1931)
Sunday 12 July 2026. Trudi Tate, The Weather in History: The Years (1937)
Monday 13 July 2026. Ellie Mitchell, Earth and Sky in Between the Acts (1941)
Virginia Woolf and the Natural World
Live Online Summer Course 2026
Join us for an intensive five-day course, live online. We study five of Woolf’s great novels, exploring her interest in the natural world: the sea, woods, clouds, trees, gardens, birds, and much else. All of Woolf’s books, even those set largely in cities, are deeply interested in the presence of nature and with human relations with the natural world.
Lecture list
Thursday 9 July 2026. Alison Hennegan, Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room (1922)
Friday 10 July 2026. Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in To the Lighthouse (1927)
Saturday 11 July 2026. [Lecturer tbc], Land and Sea in The Waves (1931)
Sunday 12 July 2026. Trudi Tate, The Weather in History: The Years (1937)
Monday 13 July 2026. Ellie Mitchell, Earth and Sky in Between the Acts (1941)