Virginia Woolf Summer Course in Cambridge, August 2026

Virginia Woolf Summer Course in Cambridge. Day 3. Thanks to Kate Eliot for a brilliant lecture on The Waves. In the afternoon we visited King’s College for a tour of the chapel, college rooms, and garden. Thanks to King’s Fellow Dr Peter Jones and Head Gardener, Steve Coghill. Photos Jeremy Peters.

We are delighted to begin our in person summer course in Cambridge this week. From the vanishing landscapes of rural England to the country lives of Woolf and her fellow writers, we will uncover the connections between Virginia Woolf and the Natural World.

‘It would hardly be an exaggeration to claim that London is the chief protagonist of Woolf’s entire opus’, wrote David Bradshaw. Join us for the first lecture of our new Woolf season, on The Years (1937) and the streets of London. Saturday 19 September. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-7/...

Great audio recordings on Virginia Woolf in our Archive: • Trudi Tate, Mrs Dalloway and the Politics of Shell Shock • Alison Hennegan, Orlando and Sapphic Love • Karina Jakubowicz, Gardens in The Waves Subscribe monthly or annually. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/member-site-...

Discount sale ends in about 85 minutes. Our sale ends tonight, just before midnight UK time. Save 10% on all our live online courses, and on our fabulous study on Ali Smith in Cambridge in December. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/ali-smith-st...

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Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny. Live online course. Thursdays, 3 September to 15 October 2026. We will study: The Grass is Singing Martha Quest The Golden Notebook The Summer before the Dark With Anne-Laure Brevet, University of Cambridge. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/lessing-2025

New: live online season on the Brontës. Monthly, starts Sept 2026. We study: • Juvenilia • Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights • The Poetry of Emily Brontë • Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre • Charlotte Brontë, Villette • Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/brontes-season

Virginia Woolf Season: • Sat 19 September 2026. Claire Davison, The Years and the Streets of London. • Sat 24 Oct. Clara Jones, Married Love and War in Night and Day. • Sat 21 Nov. Mark Hussey, The Many Histories of Between the Acts. … and more www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-7

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Close Reading Shelley with Mariah Whelan. Join us for a second course studying some of the wonderful poetry of P. B. Shelley. Live online, 6 and 13 September 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/shelley

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I have spent the last 3 days binge-reading Emily Wilson's Odyssey. After two decades with my mind occupied by the Indian epics, I have a lot of reactions (including, damn, the Odyssey is short). I'm enamored with the translation though.

NEW: Elizabeth von Arnim: Extraordinary Women: live online course with Isobel Maddison and Juliane Roemhild. We study: The Benefactress (1901). Introduction to Sally (1926). Fraulein Schmidt and Mr Anstruther(1907) Love (1925) Sundays 6 June to 27 June 2027 www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/eva-27

Great audio recordings in our Archive: Gillian Beer on Virginia Woolf, The Waves Corinna Russell on Dickens, David Copperfield Trudi Tate on Tennyson, The Charge of the Light Brigade Karina Jakubowicz on Orwell, 1984 Subscribe monthly or annually. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/member-site-...

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What a brilliant week! We have finished our live online summer course on Woolf and the Natural World, studying 5 great novels and much else. Thanks to our excellent lecturers and to the wonderful participants from all over the world. Next is our summer course in Cambridge in August. See you soon.

Virginia Woolf Season: live online lectures and seminars. Starts 19 September 2026. Our theme is Woolf and History. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-7

We're thrilled to announce our Brontës Season, six seminars over six months beginning this September. Discuss the lives and work of three of the greatest English writers of the early nineteenth century: Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/brontes-season

New in the Archive: two superb lectures by Alison Hennegan, University of Cambridge. - on Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness - on Sylvia Townsend Warner, Lolly Willowes Subscribe monthly or annually. Details: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/member-site-...

Virginia Woolf Summer Course live online Day 2: Thanks to Karina Jakubowicz for a marvellous lecture on The Artist’s Garden in To the Lighthouse, and to Harriet Baker for a fascinating talk on Woolf’s Asheham Diary. And thanks to everyone for the excellent discussions in our tutorials.

Blog post: Ellie Mitchell on Night and Day.

Ellie Mitchell on Woolf’s Night and Day — Literature Cambridge

Reading Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day (1919) on the Centenary of its Publication We republish this article by our lecturer Dr Ellie Mitchell, first published in 2019. Of Virginia Woolf’s…

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Thanks to Ann Kennedy Smith for a terrific talk today on Woolf and Rupert Brooke in our live online Woolf summer course. And thanks to Alison Hennegan for a marvellous lecture on Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room. We have an excellent, interesting, bright group of people: thanks for joining us!

Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny course - a series of 4 lectures live online on her masterpieces 'The Grass Is Singing', 'Martha Quest', 'The Golden Notebook' and 'The Summer Before the Dark'. Begins 3 Sept. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/lessing-2025

New course: An Introduction to Paradise Lost with Dr Fred Parker, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. A rare chance to discover Milton’s great poem. Fred Parker is an excellent lecturer. Do join us. Saturdays 10 Oct. and 17 Oct. 2026, 6.00-8.00 pm www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/milton