The English Bookshop in Uppsala, Sweden is celebrating its first ever Dalloway Day June 12.
The day will include a special talk and reading group on Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway chaired by literature professor/lecturer Daniel Ogden. Themed cake and tea will be served.
Ticket price: 70 kr (including tea and home made cake). Sign-ups will be taken in the shop, or by email at Uppsalaevents@bookshop.se
The English Bookshop, Uppsala
Svartbäcksgatan 19
S-753 32 Uppsala
Sweden
For more information, please contact Stina at stina@bookshop.se or +4618100510
So far, here are the #DallowayDay events for this year:
On June 12th ‘a Wednesday in mid June’ Persephone Books, 59 Lamb’s Conduit St., London, will hold its annual Mrs. Dalloway Walk. It begins at 11 a.m. in Westminster. Lunch will be at the shop afterwards.
Walking with Mrs. Dalloway, 1:30-2:30 p.m. in the National Portrait Gallery
For There She Was: Love and Presence in Mrs Dalloway, 4 – 5 p.m., British Library Piazza Pavilion with renowned Woolf scholar Professor Dame Gillian Beer
RSL Members’ Book Group: A Room of My Own, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., British Library Knowledge Centre
After Woolf, 7– 8:30 p.m., British Library Knowledge Centre. Monica Ali, Olivia Laing and Elif Shafak discuss Woolf’s influence and the challenges of interpolating one of the 20th Century’s most significant writers in works inflected by their own lives.
Cecil Woolf pauses in front of Persephone Books, Lamb’s Conduit Street, London.
The 3rd edition of ‘Il Faro in una stanza,’ the Italian literary Festival on Virginia Woolf, will take place from Friday 23 to Sunday 25 November 2018 in the beautiful Frescos Room at the Municipal Library of Sesto San Giovanni,Milan.
Recycling Woolf Conference
The ItVWS announces the International conference ‘Recycling Woolf’ at the Université de Lorraine (Nancy) 27 – 29 June 2019. It is organized by IDEA, in collaboration with Institut des Textes et de Manuscrits Modernes, the Italian Virginia Woolf Society and the Société d’Etudes Woolfiennes.
Wednesday, June 19, is officially Dalloway Day. And while some will celebrate on the more convenient following Saturday, the Royal Society of Literature is hosting an event on the actual day.
“Walking with Mrs Dalloway” will take place from 1:30-2:30 p.m. at the National Portrait Gallery. Essayist Lauren Elkin will lead an afternoon stroll around the National Portrait Gallery, looking at selected paintings and photographs of and by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and others associated with the Bloomsbury Group and the modernist movement. Following the tour Lauren will give a short talk about Woolf.
Elkin’s most recent book Flâneuse was a Radio 4 Book of the Week and a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay.
The event is free to RSL members and fellows, who can book here. Public tickets at a cost of £10/£8 will be available via the National Portrait Gallery website, beginning in early May.
The day in London will start at Waterstones Gower Street. Participants will follow in the footsteps of the Bloomsbury group on their home turf, then look at how Mrs. Dalloway has been adapted for stage and ballet, while later exploring queerness in the Bloomsbury circle and beyond.
All-event tickets include the walk and are limited to 25. However, the panel events (including refreshments) can be booked separately.
Schedule for DallowayDay 2019: Queering Dalloway
2 p.m.: Emma Woolf, an author in her own right and the daughter of Jean Moorcroft Wilson, who wrote Virginia Woolf, Life and London: A Biography of Place, will lead a Queer Bloomsbury walk. Note: Due to her father’s passing, Emma will no longer be leading the walk.
3:15 p.m.: Tea and cake in the yard: homemade cake from a Bloomsbury recipe
Jean Moorcroft Wilson on the doorstep of 46 Gordon Square, Woolf’s first Bloomsbury home, during DallowayDay2018.
4 p.m.: Adapting Mrs. Dalloway discussion panel with Thomas Bailey and Hal Coase, director and adapter respectively of the recent Mrs. Dalloway play at the Arcola Theatre in Hackney and Uzma Hameed, dramaturge for Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works for the Royal Ballet. Chaired by Lucy Scholes, literary critic and reviewer
5:15: Wine & nibbles, which includes a Nino Strachey book signing
6 p.m.: Queer Bloomsbury discussion panel with Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own: Eddy Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, and head of research at the National Trust; Stuart N. Clarke, independent scholar, editor of the Virginia Woolf Bulletin and of many of Woolf’s works, including Orlando: The Holograph Draft. Chaired by Maggie Humm, emeritus professor of Cultural Studies, University of East London, and author/editor of a number of books about Woolf and Bloomsbury.
7:30 p.m.: DallowayDay2019 closes
8: p.m.: Waterstones Gower Street closes
Get tickets
All events: walk and panels and two refreshments (maximum 25): £30/£24 VWSGB or Waterstones members
Adapting Mrs. Dalloway with tea and cake in the yard: £10/£8 VWSGB or Waterstones members
Queer Bloomsbury with wine & nibbles: £10/£8 VWSGB or Waterstones members
