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Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @LitCamb season six

Posted in A Room of One's Own, Literature Cambridge, Online discussions, Woolf Courses, tagged , on Monday 1 September 2025| 1 Comment »

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 One’s Own (1929).

• 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

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Woolf Salon 28: Reading the Russians is July 26

Posted in events, Online discussions, Woolf online, tagged , , on Sunday 14 July 2024| Leave a Comment »

Join Woolf Salon No. 28: “Reading the Russians” on Friday, July 26, 2-4 p.m. EST.

Hosts: Georgy Liseyev and the Salon Conspirators
Date: Friday, July 26
Time: 2–4 p.m. EST (New York) / 11 a.m.–1 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 3–5 p.m. Brasilia / 7–9 p.m. BST (London) / 8–10 p.m. CEST (Paris) / 9–11 p.m. Ankara / Sat 3 a.m.–5 a.m. JST (Tokyo) / Sat 4 a.m.–6 a.m. AEST (Sydney). Please double check time zone conversions.
Where: On Zoom
How: Contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

The readings

The group looks forward to discussing two of Woolf’s many essays on Russian literature with you: “The Russian Point of View” and “The Novels of Turgenev”! Georgy will also share some translations that he’s been working on.

Read “The Russian Point of View” (1925) and “The Novels of Turgenev” (1933). You can find “The Russian Point of View” in Essays (vol. 4) and The Common Reader: First Series (1925). “The Novels of Turgenev” appears in Essays (vol. 6) and The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (1950).

Please let the Salon Conspirators know if you have trouble accessing these texts. (Please note: the version of “The Novels of Turgenev” that appears on The Yale Review website differs substantially from the version noted above; The Yale Review version is included in an Appendix to Essays [vol. 6].)

Read more about “Woolf, Chekhov and the Russian Point of View.”

How to join the Salon

Anyone can join the group, which meets via Zoom and focuses on a single topic or text. Just contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

Background on the Salon

The Salon Conspirators — Benjamin Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

The last Woolf Salon No. 27: “Virginia Woolf Miscellany at 100” was held on Zoom on Friday, May 10.

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Woolf Salon 27: “VW Miscellany at 100” is May 10

Posted in events, Online discussions, Virginia Woolf, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Woolf online, tagged , , , on Sunday 21 April 2024| Leave a Comment »

Join Woolf Salon No. 27: “Virginia Woolf Miscellany at 100″ on Zoom on Friday, May 10, from 2-4 p.m. EDT (New York).

The Miscellany is the semi-annual publication of the International Virginia Woolf Society.

The session will include a rich discussion (and celebration) of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, which celebrated the major benchmark of its 100th issue last year. The discussion will include future and past editors of the publication, along with readers and newcomers.

The details

Event: Woolf Salon No. 27: “Virginia Woolf Miscellany at 100″
Hosts: Vara Neverow and Salon Conspirators
Date: Friday, May 10
Time: 2–4 p.m. EDT (New York) / 11 a.m.–1 p.m. PDT (Los Angeles) / 3–5 p.m. Brasilia / 7–9 p.m. BST (London) / 8–10 p.m. CEST (Paris) / 9 –11 p.m. Ankara / Sat 3–5 a.m. JST (Tokyo) / Sat 4 –6 a.m. AEST (Sydney)
Where: On Zoom
How: Contact woolfsalonproject@gmail.com to sign up for the email list and receive the Zoom link.

The readings

Organizers ask that folks read through issues 1 and 5 of the VWM, peruse the online archive as time allows, and come in with a favorite issue or cluster that has been meaningful to them, their scholarship, or their teaching. (Issue 101 is now available online.)

Homework: Read Issue 1 and Issue 5 and peruse the online archive as you have time.

We look forward to seeing many of you on the 10th and to celebrating the rich history of the VWM!

Future Salon planned

  • Friday, July 26, at 2 p.m. ET – Woolf Salon No. 28: TBA

The last Woolf Salon, Woolf Salon No. 26: Faces and Voices, was held Feb. 23.

Background on the Salon

The Salon Conspirators — Benjamin Hagen, Shilo McGiff, Amy Smith, and Drew Shannon — began the Woolf Salon Project in July 2020 to provide opportunities for conversation and conviviality among Woolf-interested scholars, students, and common readers during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Join up and log in for readings on Virginia Woolf and winter

Posted in events, Online discussions, Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, tagged , , , on Sunday 12 November 2023| Leave a Comment »

If you are a member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, you are invited to a FREE members only online Christmas celebration that includes an evening of readings about Christmas and winter from Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group.

“A Virginia Woolf Christmas – Monks House Welcome Home” design by renowned collage artist Amanda White

What: An evening of five-minute readings by society members that will focus on writings by Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group that discuss Christmas and or winter.
When: Wednesday, Dec. 6, 5.30 p.m. GMT
How: On Zoom. Members will receive a Zoom link, meeting ID and passcode.

Join the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

To join the society and have access to the Dec. 6 Zoom event, visit the group’s membership page. Members receive:

  • FREE Virginia Woolf Bulletin three times a year, containing articles, reviews and previously unpublished material by Woolf herself (normally £7 each)
  • Discount and priority notice for Birthday Lecture: this is an annual talk by a Woolf scholar or author, held on the Saturday nearest to 25 January
  • FREE regular email updates, with information and news of upcoming Woolf events
  • Discount and priority notice for VWSGB events, e.g. day conferences; study weekends, talks, visits; guided walks in an area connected with Woolf
  • Member-only online talks: live talks accessed by web link (small additional charge)
    FREE online group events: networking events and readings for members only.

Read more about Virginia Woolf and Christmas

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Virginia Woolf Society Turkey hosts free online seminar on Woolf and fashion

Posted in events, fashion, Online discussions, Turkey, tagged , , on Saturday 14 October 2023| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf Society Turkey is holding another online seminar, and this one covers Virginia Woolf and fashion.

What: A free online talk: “‘She had a flair for beautiful, if individual dresses’: Virginia Woolf’s Style Itineraries,” as part of the Woolf Seminars series of the Virginia Woolf Society Turkey.

When: Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. (Turkey time) or noon-2:30 p.m. EST. Check times for your location.

Who: Antoine Perret, a PhD candidate in English literature at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, will be the speaker.

Cost: Free

Registration: Open to all via the Eventbrite link.

About the talk

This talk will explore the intriguing paradoxes surrounding Virginia Woolf’s sartorial style. Deemed highly unfashionable by her contemporaries, she now stands as a style icon, inspiring designers and gracing the pages of fashion magazines. Woolf’s personal relationship with clothes was in itself contradictory, always oscillating between love and hate.

Perret arguesthat Woolf’s shabby looks and ostensible disinterest in dress can be seen as a posture that not only helped crafting her bohemian public persona, but also took part in her subsequent celebration on the fashion scene. Drawing from her fiction, he will eventually explore how Woolf’s distinctive style and fascination with dress also influenced her literary use of clothes.

About the speaker

Antoine Perret is a PhD candidate in English literature at Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris. Supervised by Professor Catherine Lanone and Dr. Floriane Reviron-Pi?gay, he is currently writing a doctoral thesis on fashion, style, and modernism, focusing particularly on the works of E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys. Arguing for a material approach to literary modernism, his research addresses the role of clothing within the diegesis, while also exploring the concept of fashion taken as a social phenomenon, in particular its influence on the literary community and on aesthetic practices, so as to interrogate the modalities of modernism and its reception.

About last month’s talk

Last month, Virginia Woolf Society Turkey hosted a free online talk on “Unwriting and Rewriting History and Literary History: Woolf’s Fictions and Essays,” as part of the Woolf Seminars series.

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