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Learn about Virginia Woolf’s women with @LitCamb this summer

Posted in events, Virginia Woolf, Woolf Courses, tagged , , , on Wednesday 4 January 2023| 1 Comment »

For the first time since 2019, Literature Cambridge will hold an in-person  summer course this year, along with a live online course. The topic for both will be Woolf’s Women.

Trudi Tate welcomes students to the Virginia Woolf’s Gardens course at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge in July 2019.

Two options

  1. Attend the course live online, July 10-14, 2023.
  2. Attend the course in person in Cambridge, July 23-28, 2023.

Women in Woolf’s life and novels

The course will cover some of the fascinating women in Woolf’s life and writing, including Julia Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Ethel Smyth, Pernel Strachey, and Vita Sackville West.

It will focus on five novels: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One’s Own, and Between the Acts.

Lecture topics and field trips

These will include:

Ellie Mitchell, Mrs. Dalloway and her Daughter (1925)
Trudi Tate, Women in To the Lighthouse (1927)
Alison Hennegan, What is a Woman?: Orlando (1928)
Karina Jakubowicz, Women in A Room of One’s Own (1929)
Claire Davison, Between the Acts (1941): Virginia Woolf and Ethel Smyth

Topics will include Mrs. Ramsay, Lily Briscoe, Orlando (as both man and woman), Miss La Trobe, and the idea of “Woman,” women’s education, and more.

Students will also learn about the women’s colleges in Cambridge and the manuscript of a section of A Room of One’s Own, held in the Fitzwilliam Museum. The course held live in Cambridge will visit Girton, Newnham, and the Fitzwilliam Museum

Course booking and accommodations

The course in Cambridge is filling fast. Members of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain may book the conference at the student price. See fees and book the in-person conference here.

Overnight accommodations are booked separately from the course. Organizers have reserved bedrooms at Robinson College. To book, use the code in the Terms and Conditions. However, when I checked today, all accommodations at Robinson were booked up, but that may change.

If Robinson College accommodations are not available, you can reserve a room at another college or at a Cambridge hotel.

For more information

Further information is on the Literature Cambridge website. Or send an email with enquiries to info@literaturecambridge.co.uk

King’s College, Cambridge, July 2019

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