Is everything we think we know about the Dreadnought hoax wrong? Danell Jones says it is.

Jones, the author of Virginia Woolf, Race and the Dreadnought Hoax (2023) will give an illustrated online talk on “Everything You Think You Know about the Dreadnought Hoax Is Wrong.” Marielle O’Neill will lead the Q&A that follows.

Event details

What: Talk on “Everything You Think You Know about the Dreadnought Hoax Is Wrong“
Date: Wednesday, May 15
Time: 5:30 p.m. BST
Where: Online
Cost: £6
Sponsor: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
Audience: VWSGB members only. Not a member? Join here.
For more information: Contact onlinevwsgb@gmail.com

About the book — and the talk

Journalists, memoirists and others have been getting the 1910 Dreadnought hoax wrong for more than a century. Even Virginia Woolf’s 1940 talk about the hoax is rife with inaccuracies, exaggerations and misrepresentations.

The Girl Prince, published by Hurst, takes a deep dive into the famous prank, exploring the often-overlooked diversity of Virginia Woolf’s world and setting the record straight on a practical joke that has been misunderstood for 100 years.

About the author

Danell Jones is a writer and scholar with a PhD in literature from Columbia University. She is the author of The Virginia Woolf Writers Workshop; the poetry collection Desert Elegy; and An African in Imperial London: The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor, which won the High Plains Book Award for Nonfiction.