One hundred years ago, in June of 1923, Clarissa Dalloway took her famous walk through London. This year, DallowayDay celebrations are on the schedule around the globe. Below are just some of them.
Dalloway Day
The Exchange, Twickenham, TW1 1BE
Wednesday 21 June
Gabi Reigh, author of the fascinating anthology of women’s writings, Virginia’s Sisters, will be joined by Cheryl Robson, editor of Virginia Woolf in Richmond. They will discuss the life and legacy of Virginia Woolf – including the successful statue campaign.
Talk: Dalloway Day 2023 with Görel Kristina Näslund & Daniel Ogden
Wednesday 14 June at 19:00
The English Bookshop, Uppsala
Ogden and Näslund will talk about Virginia Woolf, her impact on literature and of course the incomparable novel Mrs Dalloway. Näslund’s recently published biography of Woolf (in Swedish) will be for sale during the evening.
Tea and celebratory cake afterwards!
Tickets 75:- (incl. tea and cake).
Dressing the Part with the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and Hatchards
Saturday 17 June 2023
Hatchards, 187 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LE
Theme: This year’s theme for Clarissa Dalloway’s very own day is Bloomsbury, clothing and dressing up; party wear and everyday wear.
The Italian Virginia Woolf Society’s Dallowaday 2023 – Festa per Virginia Woolf
Spazio Sette Libreria
Libreria Ubik a Roma
via dei Barbieri 7
Aperti tutti i giorni dalle 10:30 alle 19:30
Two noted authors will discuss the new editions of Virginia Woolf’s diaries, at the British Library on May 31, and you can listen in by registering to receive the event recording direct to your inbox to watch at your leisure on or after June 14, which is Dalloway Day.
As part of the Royal Society of Literature’s Dalloway Day celebrations, two contributors to the new editions of the diaries join forces to discuss the new volumes and how the diaries reveal Woolf’s unique mind, while also adding rich insight into her life and times.
They are Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Margo Jefferson and author and Royal Society of Literature Fellow and Woolf’s great-niece Virginia Nicholson.
About the speakers
Jefferson was a theatre and book critic for Newsweek and the New York Times. Her Pulitzer Prize-winning writing has appeared in, among other publications, Vogue, New York magazine and New Republic.
She is a professor of writing at Columbia University School of the Arts and the author of Negroland – which was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award – On Michael Jackson; and Constructing a Nervous System her wildly innovative 2022 memoir, was recently announced as the winner of the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize.
Nicholson is the author of the acclaimed social histories How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s, Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939, Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War, Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in the Second World War and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s.
She is the daughter of the art historian and writer Quentin Bell, acclaimed for his biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf. Her mother, Anne Olivier Bell, edited the original five volumes of Virginia Woolf’s Diaries.
More Dalloway Day events from the RSL
Get the details on more RSL Dalloway Day events. They include the following:
The pulse of a perfect heart Published on the RSL website on June 14. The RSL, in partnership with Peninsula Press, has commissioned three writers to respond to the combined might, maps and meaning of two distinctively London-based novels: Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Love, Leda by Mark Hyatt.
Neil Bartlett and Sarah Ruhl: Working with Orlando Available from June 14. Playwrights Neil Bartlett and Sarah Ruhl come together in conversation to discuss their adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s novel Orlando.
Zadie Smith In Conversation: On Virginia Woolf June 14, 7 p.m. Zadie Smith joins Lisa Appignanesi at the British Library for a conversation about the life and works of Virginia Woolf.
