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Study Woolf and the Natural World with @LitCamb

Posted in events, Literature Cambridge, Virginia Woolf, tagged , on Thursday 19 February 2026| Leave a Comment »

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World will be the focus of this year’s Literature Cambridge summer course, which will be held twice — once online and once in person in Cambridge, England.

The live online course will run from Thursday, July 9, to Monday, July 13 (including the weekend). The in-person in Cambridge course is set for Sunday, Aug. 2 to Friday, Aug. 7, with an optional trip to Monk’s House and Charleston on Saturday, Aug. 8.

All of Woolf’s books are deeply interested in the natural world. This year’s course will explore her writing about the sea, woods, clouds, trees, gardens, birds, and much else in five of her great novels.

As always, there will be a rich program of lectures, supervisions, talks, and discussions, plus extra sessions for open discussion. In Cambridge, students will visit places of interest with talks by specialists.

Lecture list

Alison Hennegan, Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room (1922)
Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in To the Lighthouse (1927)
Kate Eliot, Land and Sea in The Waves (1931)
Trudi Tate, The Weather in History: The Years (1937)
Ellie Mitchell, Earth and Sky in Between the Acts (1941)

Provisional list of talks

• Ann Kennedy Smith on “Woolf, Rupert Brooke and the ‘Neo-Pagans’”

• Harriet Baker on “Nature writing in Woolf’s Diary”

• Bonnie Lander Johnson on “Vanishing Landscapes: Saffron”

• Claudia Tobin on “Monk’s House garden”

• Launch of Karina Jakubowicz’s book on Gardens in the Work of Virginia Woolf (2026)

…and more

Links for additional information

• Live online course

• Course in Cambridge

• Day trip to Monk’s House and Charleston

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Register for online symposium: Woolf & Ecologies II

Posted in 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, events, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , , , , on Wednesday 4 October 2023| Leave a Comment »

Register to attend the three-day follow-up to the 32nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Virginia Woolf and Ecologies II, set for Oct. 20-22 on Zoom.

The event, sponsored by the International Virginia Woolf Society, includes 12 panel sessions and a keynote by Derek Ryan of the University of Kent and continues the theme of the 2023 conference: “Virginia Woolf and Ecologies.” Ryan’s keynote is titled “Virginia Woolf and the Pyrocene: Fire Ecologies.”

Dates and times

The conference begins at 11:30 a.m. EDT Oct. 20 and ends at 4 p.m. EDT Oct. 22. Please remember to check local times.

What it costs

Registration costs $20, plus a small transaction fee, with proceeds going towards the Suzanne Bellamy Travel Fund, which supports travel to the Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf next June.

How to register

Register via Eventbrite. You will find an outline of the symposium schedule on the registration page, where the full program schedule will be made available soon.

You should receive a confirmation message upon registering, and you will be added to an email list to which organizers will send the requisite Zoom links as the dates of the symposium draw near.

Get more information

If you have any questions about registration or other IVWS business, write to  vwoolfsociety@gmail.com. Direct other questions about the symposium program to woolfecologies@gmail.com.

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Podcast on the consolation of nature and Virginia Woolf

Posted in On Being Ill, podcast, tagged , , , , , on Tuesday 21 February 2023| Leave a Comment »

How can literature and nature console us? How can it give us courage and insight in difficult times?

Sally Bayley is an English Lecturer at Hertford College, Oxford, and a reader of Virginia Woolf’s diaries and journals. She lives on a boat, surrounded by nature.

In her podcast, “A Reading Life, a Writing Life,” she explores the sustenance that nature, along with reading and writing, provide. And her first episode shares wisdom from Virginia Woolf.

That episode connects to two pieces of Woolf’s writing — the short story “The Death of a Moth” (1941) and her 1926 essay “On Being Ill.”

Listen to Episode 1 now.

More Woolf podcasts

You can listen to another podcast connected to Woolf. More than a dozen episodes of The Virginia Woolf Podcast are available on the Literature Cambridge website.

This morning I was thinking, what makes a novel? Because Virginia Woolf in some ways doesn’t really write novels. She writes sets of propelling feelings, I think. She writes the inner world out, in all of its outbursts, in all of its prejudice. – Sally Bayley in Episode 1 of “A Reading Life, a Writing Life”

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