• Anna Snaith on The Years (1937), Sun. 2 May, 6 p.m.
• Claire Davison on Three Guineas (1938), Sat. 8 May, 6 p.m.
• Claire Nicholson on Between the Acts (1941): Costume, Sat. 29 May, 6 p.m.
• Karina Jukobowicz on Between the Acts (1941): Dispersed Are We, Sat. 5 June, 10 a.m.
Two repeats
And, in case you missed them, two earlier lectures will be repeated:
• Claudia Tobin, Art in To the Lighthouse (1927), Sun. 16 May, 6 p.m.
• Emma Sutton and Jeremy Thurlow, Music in The Waves (1931), Sun. 30 May, 6 p.m.
All sessions are live on Zoom. All times are British Summer Time. Sessions can be booked online.
Trudi Tate and Karina Jacubowicz are just two of the lecturers in the Literature Cambridge’s online courses on Virginia Woolf via Zoom.
Woolf’s groundbreaking A Room of One’s Own (1929) is up now, with online lectures via Zoom this month by Alison Hennegan on androgyny on March 6, and Trudi Tate on women on March 13 and 14.
These are followed by five different lectures on The Waves, a rare chance to consider all aspects of this fascinating novel.
Five lectures on The Waves
Emma Sutton on music in The Waves on March 23
Ellie Mitchell on Percival in The Waves on April 3
Trudi Tate on friendship in The Waves on April 4
Karina Jakubowicz on gardens in The Waves on April 11
Gillian Beer on “Reading The Waves Across a Lifetime” (repeated by popular request) on April 24
From Flush to Between the Acts
Alison Hennegan will discuss Flush on April 10.
Karina Jakubowicz lecturing for Literature Cambridge
Literature Cambridge will finish out its first Woolf Season with Claire Davison on music in Three Guineas, Anna Snaith on The Years, Claire Nicholson on Between the Acts and costume, and more.
A second Woolf Season is planned for October 2021, and you can study some of Woolf’s brilliant contemporaries in the Women Writers Season: May Sinclair, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, HD, Rosamund Lehmann, Vita Sackville West, Winifred Holtby, and others, starting in June 2021. https://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women
If you have ever wanted to study all of Virginia Woolf’s major works in consecutive order, now is your chance — no matter where you live.
Literature Cambridge has planned a “Virginia Woolf Season” that will run from Oct. 24 of this year through June 5, 2021 — and each of 18 study sessions will be available online via Zoom.
This unique eight-month season of Woolf study will cover her 12 major books in order of publication, from The Voyage Out (1915) to Between the Acts (1941). Each session includes a live, newly commissioned online lecture and seminar via Zoom. A few topics are repeated to accommodate different schedules.
Tickets per session
£26 full price
£22 students and CAMcard holders Book them online.
Schedule of all-new lectures from leading scholars
Saturday, 24 October 2020, 6 p.m. The Voyage Out (1915), with Alison Hennegan
Karina Jacubowicz
Saturday, 21 November 2020, 6 p.m. Night and Day (1919), with Ellie Mitchell
Saturday, 12 December 2020, 10 a.m. Jacob’s Room (1922), with Alison Hennegan
Saturday, 9 January 2021, 6 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) 1: Women in Mrs. Dalloway, with Trudi Tate
Sunday, 10 January 2021, 10 a.m. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) 1: Women in Mrs. Dalloway, with Trudi Tate
Saturday, 30 January 2021, 6 p.m. Mrs. Dalloway (1925) 2: Dressing Mrs. Dalloway, with Claire Nicholson
Saturday, 13 February 2021, 6 p.m. To the Lighthouse (1927) 1: Art, with Claudia Tobin
Sunday, 14 February 2021, 10 a.m. To the Lighthouse (1927) 2: Gardens, with Trudi Tate
Sunday, 21 February 2021, 6 p.m. To the Lighthouse (1927) 2: Gardens, with Trudi Tate
Saturday, 27 February 2021, 6 p.m. Orlando (1928): Writing Vita, Writing Life, with Karina Jakubowicz
Saturday, 6 March 2021, 6 p.m. A Room of One’s Own (1929) 1: Androgyny, with Alison Hennegan
Sunday, 14 March 2021, 10 a.m. A Room of One’s Own (1929) 2: Women
Saturday, 3 April 2021, 6 p.m. The Waves (1931) 1: with Ellie Mitchell
Sunday, 4 April 2021, 10 a.m. The Waves (1931) 2: Friendship with Trudi Tate
Saturday, 10 April 2021 6 p.m. Flush: A Biography (1933), with Alison Hennegan
Sunday, 2 May 2021, 6 p.m. The Years (1937), with Anna Snaith
Saturday, 8 May 2021, 6 p.m. Three Guineas (1938) and Music, with Claire Davison
Saturday, 5 June 2021, 10 a.m. Between the Acts (1941): Dispersed are We, with Karina Jakubowicz
Trudi Tate (center) welcomes students to the Virginia Woolf’s Gardens course at Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge in July 2019.
So I, along with dozens of scholars and common readers from around the world, am studying Woolf remotely as part of Literature Cambridge’s sessions on Woolf through its reasonably priced Online Study Sessions. Once held in person at the University of Cambridge, they are now held online via Zoom. And I am enjoying every minute of the delightful, informative lectures, as well as the accompanying question and answer sessions.
Dadie Ryland’s room behind the second floor window shown here inspired the first chapter of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own.
I miss those field trips but I appreciate reuniting with the lecturers and students I met at Literature Cambridge and other Woolf encounters.
So far this year, I have attended lectures by Trudi Tate and Karina Jacubowicz on A Room of One’s Own and the Great War, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Room of Own and Space. I have several more on my calendar.
Upcoming study sessions and the Virginia Woolf Season
Online Study Sessions on Woolf and other writers continue through the summer. Here is just part of the upcoming schedule, with all times in British Summer Time:
25 July, 6 p.m. Between the Acts and Gardens
1 August, 6 p.m. Orlando 1 : Property
2 August, 10 a.m. Orlando 1: Property
8 August, 6 p.m. Night and Day
15 August, 6 pm. The Voyage Out
Literature Cambridge will kick off its Virginia Woolf Season in October in which students will discuss 12 major Woolf books in order of publication. Follow its Facebook page for updates.
The Newnham College dining hall where Virginia Woolf gave her famous talk on women and fiction in 1928.
Literature Cambridge has had a great response to its new Online Study Sessions, launched due to the coronavirus, and has responded by scheduling additional sessions.
Below is the schedule of those still to come. It includes those focused on Virginia Woolf, as well as other authors. The cost is a bargain at £22 full price and £18 for students and CAMcard holders.
Upcoming Online Study Sessions
Sunday 17 May: Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own. 1: After the War, with Trudi Tate. 18.00 BST
Saturday 6 June: Woolf. A Room of One’s Own. 2: Women and Education with Alison Hennegan. 18.00
Saturday 13 June: Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest. 18.00 BST
Sunday 28 June: Katherine Mansfield, Selected short stories. 18.00 BST
Saturday 22 August: Angela Carter, stories from The Bloody Chamber. 18.00 BST
Sunday 6 September: Clothing in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. 18.00 BST
Saturday 12 September: Reading The Waves Across a Lifetime, with Dame Gillian Beer. 18.00 BST
Most sessions will be held at 18.00 to 20.00 British Summer Time / 19.00 Central European Summer Time. Some sessions will take place at 10.00 am British Summer Time, for the benefit of people in different time zones, but students are welcome to book any session, wherever they are in the world. Check the web page for updates.
NOTE: BST (British Summer Time) is five hours ahead of EST (Eastern Standard Time) and eight hours ahead of PT (Pacific Time).
Literature Cambridge hopes to offer an introductory session on The Waves soon. If there is enough interest, they will offer it twice: once at 10.00 am and again at 18.00 pm BST. Date to be confirmed.
Online Study Session format and booking
Each Online Study Session has a live lecture via Zoom, followed by a moderated seminar discussion. The session lasts about 100 minutes, but please allow two hours. Details are available online.
Literature Cambridge looks forward to being together again in person for ‘real life’ Study Days. These will take place at a new venue, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Safety permitting, these will resume on 19 September 2020 with a full day (11.00 am to 5.30 pm) on Woolf’s comic novel, Orlando (1928).
The program also has Study Days and half-days planned on George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Shakespeare’s Richard III, Jane Austen’s Emma, D. H. Lawrence’s poetry and novellas, and more.
A table full of Literature Cambridge T-shirts at the program’s 2018 summer course on Virginia Woolf’s Gardens
