Mark your calendar for Saturday, June 13, to celebrate #DallowayDay in London. Here’s the schedule. More events and Eventbrite links will be added later.
11.30 a.m.–12.30 p.m.: A Bloomsbury Walk
A sell-out crowd for the Dalloway Day event at Hatchard in 2025.
Guided by Clara Jones, participants will saunter in the streets and squares of Virginia Woolf’s beloved Bloomsbury.
Please note: the walk is available only for those with All-Event Tickets. Organizers will send ticket-holders details of the meeting place by email.
Dr. Jones is senior lecturer in Modern Literature at King’s College London. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist and the forthcoming British Interwar Women Writers, and editor of an essay collection, Virginia Woolf and Capitalism.
2 – 3 p.m.: A Woolf in the Archives
In conversation with Maggie Humm, Nicola Wilson and editors from the Times Literary Supplement will discuss “Virginia Woolf: Reader and Writer'” in relation to her work as publisher alongside Leonard Woolf and as a regular critic and reviewer.
“Snapshots of Bloomsbury” by Maggie Humm
Professor Wilson is professor of Book and Publishing Studies at the University of Reading and co-director of the Centre for Book Cultures and Publishing. Her publications include Scholarly Adventures in the Digital Humanities: Making the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (2019) and Recommended! The Influencers Who Changed How We Read (2025).
Professor Humm is Vice-Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain. She is the author/editor of twenty books, many focusing on Woolf and the arts. Her novel Talland House, based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, won the Women’s Fiction International Impact Book Award 2024. The Bloomsbury Photographs won the American Writing Awards 2025 for photography, and her most recent book is Snapshots: Autobiography, Virginia Woolf, Writing and the Visual.
3 – 4 p.m.: Book signing, informal meet-the-authors, soft drinks & cupcakes
4 – 5 p.m.: Art, Friendship and Roger Fry
Fiona McKenzie Johnson, whose biography Roger Fry: Bloomsbury and the Invention of Modern Art has recently been published by Triglyph Books, will discuss Fry’s life as a pioneering curator and artist, and in particular his friendship with Virginia Woolf, whose own biography of him was published in 1940.
Jean Moorcroft Wilson on the doorstep of 46 Gordon Square, Woolf’s first Bloomsbury home, during Dalloway Day 2018. A blue plaque is to the right of the front door.
