Black Britain and A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 5. Black Britain and A Room of One’s Own (1929)
When Virginia Stephen and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury in 1904, it was a neighbourhood that Londoners often associated with people of colour. In 1910, four South African law students shared an attic flat at number 31 Fitzroy Square – just two doors down from Virginia and her brother Adrian at number 29.
Black people were a vibrant part of British life, yet Black people are nearly absent from Woolf’s writing, just as they are absent from much of early 20th-century British literature and history.
What happens when we consider A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s most profound statement on freedom and creativity, in the context of Black Britain in the early 20th century?
This lecture will explore the diversity of early twentieth-century Britain that is often missing from descriptions of Woolf’s world.
Live online lecture and seminar with Danell Jones, author of The Girl Prince.
Saturday 11 January 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 5. Black Britain and A Room of One’s Own (1929)
When Virginia Stephen and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury in 1904, it was a neighbourhood that Londoners often associated with people of colour. In 1910, four South African law students shared an attic flat at number 31 Fitzroy Square – just two doors down from Virginia and her brother Adrian at number 29.
Black people were a vibrant part of British life, yet Black people are nearly absent from Woolf’s writing, just as they are absent from much of early 20th-century British literature and history.
What happens when we consider A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s most profound statement on freedom and creativity, in the context of Black Britain in the early 20th century?
This lecture will explore the diversity of early twentieth-century Britain that is often missing from descriptions of Woolf’s world.
Live online lecture and seminar with Danell Jones, author of The Girl Prince.
Saturday 11 January 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB
Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics
Lecture 5. Black Britain and A Room of One’s Own (1929)
When Virginia Stephen and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury in 1904, it was a neighbourhood that Londoners often associated with people of colour. In 1910, four South African law students shared an attic flat at number 31 Fitzroy Square – just two doors down from Virginia and her brother Adrian at number 29.
Black people were a vibrant part of British life, yet Black people are nearly absent from Woolf’s writing, just as they are absent from much of early 20th-century British literature and history.
What happens when we consider A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s most profound statement on freedom and creativity, in the context of Black Britain in the early 20th century?
This lecture will explore the diversity of early twentieth-century Britain that is often missing from descriptions of Woolf’s world.
Live online lecture and seminar with Danell Jones, author of The Girl Prince.
Saturday 11 January 2025
18.00-20.00 British Time (GMT)
19.00-21.00 Central European Time
Morning/lunchtime in the Americas
£32.00 full price
£27.00 students and CAMcard holders
£27.00 members of the VWSGB