Join Literature Cambridge September 2025 to June 2026 for a live online season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf on the theme of Woolf’s Rooms.
A table and six painted chairs with needlework panels designed by Vanessa Bell dominate the dining room at Monk’s House.
Rooms are important in all of Woolf’s novels. The seminars in this season, season six, will explore the ways in which rooms shape, or contain, the human lives within them.
- How do people connect (or not) in Mrs Dalloway’s party room?
- Why is the dining room so important in To the Lighthouse (1927)?
- What happens in the many rooms in The Waves (1931) and The Years (1937)?
- And why is it so important for a woman to have a room of her own?
Woolf’s Rooms Schedule
Woolf’s Rooms sessions are all at 18.00-20.00 p.m. British time and are offered live online via Zoom. Most are on Saturdays, but please note that the first session* is on a Sunday.
Summer Time and Greenwich Mean Time: Please note that clocks in Britain are on Summer Time in September 2025, and change to Greenwich Mean Time on 26 October 2025. In spring 2026, the clocks change from GMT to Summer Time on 29 March 2026.
• *Sunday 21 September: Lecture 1, Trudi Tate, To the Lighthouse (1927): The Dinner Party.
• Saturday 18 October: Lecture 2, Frances Spalding, A Walk Around A Room of
• Saturday 15 November: Lecture 3, Natasha Periyan on Rooms in Woolf’s Short Fiction (Set reading: KewGardens and Other Short Fiction).
• Saturday 6 December: Lecture 4, Alison Hennegan on Rooms for Women in A Room of One’s Own (1929).
• Saturday 10 January 2026: Lecture 5, Beth Daugherty on Room to Think in Woolf’s Essays.
• Saturday 21 February 2026: Lecture 6, Karina Jakubowicz on Jacob’s Room (1922).
• Saturday 21 March 2026: Lecture 7, Claire Davison on Orlando’s Rooms (1929)
• Saturday 18 April 2026: Lecture 8, Angela Harris on Rooms in Mrs Dalloway (1925).
• Saturday 16 May 2026: Lecture 9, Trudi Tate on Rooms in The Years (1937).
• Saturday 13 June 2026: Lecture 10, Ellie Mitchell on Rooms in The Waves (1931).
Prices and how to book
Book all 10 sessions for the price of nine. Offer closes Sunday 21 September at 16.00 British Summer Time (just before the first lecture).
Individual lectures
£33.00 full price
£28.00 Students on a low income
£28.00 CAMcard holders
£28.00 Members of the VWSGB
Full season
£297 Full price for all 10 sessions (save £33)
£252 Students and CAMcard holders for all 10 sessions (save £28)
£252 Members VWSGB for all 10 sessions (save £28)
All prices include VAT at 20%
Recordings available
Each lecture will be recorded live and will be available to participants after the live event for 48 hours. Literature Cambridge hopes this will be helpful to participants in various time zones, and to those who want to hear the lecture again. The recordings are available only to people who have booked the session. The seminars are not recorded.
Virginia Woolf’s bedroom at Monk’s House in Sussex
