Literature Cambridge

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.
Live online Season of lectures and seminars
September 2025 to June 2026
10 lectures, monthly.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6
#virginiawoolf #aroomofonesown #orlando

Live online course on George Orwell: Power, Freedom, Decency, with Lisa Mullen, Cambridge.

• Keep the Aspidistra Flying
• Homage to Catalonia
• Coming up for Air
• Animal Farm
• Nineteen Eighty-Four

Tuesdays, 18 November to 16 December 2025.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/orwell-2025 #orwell

Subtlety and Strength in 20thC women’s fiction — Literature Cambridge ‘Together, these novels map out different forms of post-war womanhood, overshadowed by tradition, perhaps, yet reaching – sometimes desperately, sometimes gracefully – toward real self-sufficiency and...

Coming up in September with @litcamb.bsky.social - a new course on five female authors from the mid-late 20th Century...

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/women-p...

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker — Literature Cambridge Guest post by Valerie Waterhouse about Malachi Whitaker’s remarkable memoir of 1939, And So Did I , republished in September 2025 by Recovered Books

In a Class of Her Own: Malachi Whitaker

Guest Post:
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/whitaker

On Malachi Whitaker's remarkable 1939 memoir, And So Did I.

@litcamb.bsky.social

New edition out 30 Sept. From

@bhousepress.bsky.social

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @LitCamb season six Join Literature Cambridge September 2025 to June 2026 for a live online season of lectures and seminars on the major works of Virginia Woolf on the theme of Virginia Woolf’s Rooms.

Virginia Woolf’s Rooms is topic of @litcamb.bsky.social sixth Woolf season: 10 live Zoom lectures and/or seminars September 2025 through June 2026. #VirginiaWoolf #LiteratureCambridge bloggingwoolf.org/2025/09/01/v...

Publication day today! @oxfordunipress.bsky.social publishes a new edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway, edited and introduced by our Director, Trudi Tate. Mrs Dalloway was first published in May 1925.

We are delighted to celebrate the centenary of this great novel.
#Woolf
#VirginiaWoolf

Mrs Dalloway turns 100 — here’s why Virginia Woolf’s novel is a masterpiece Harriet Baker reflects on a century with Woolf’s iconic London story — and how the shimmering experience she had reading the book as a teenager is now one infused with melancholy

‘As the scholar @markhussey.bsky.social explains in his fascinating new book, Woolf was drawing on several streams of experience in her attempt to write the interior lives of an upper-class hostess and a shell-shocked veteran.’ -- Harriet Baker, @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Life and Death
Live online course on Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of the greatest short story writers of the 20thC.

Six live online lectures and seminars with leading scholars.
Wednesdays, 14 May to 18 June 2025
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-25

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There are just a couple of places left on Fred Parker’s new course, Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen.

Four sessions, weekly on Sundays, from 4 May to 25 May 2025, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2025

Alan Hollinghurst · West End Vice: Queer London The queer topography of London emerges in these books like a heat map, flaring in patches round the edges at Shepherd’...

‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’

Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Last chance to book a place on our new course, Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen with Dr Fred Parker. Nearly sold out.

Sundays, 4 May to 25 May 2025. Live online.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2025

#janeausten

Women Writers Season, live online.
We study:

Sat. 24 May. Elizabeth Bowen, To the North

Sat. 28 June. Inez Holden, Night Shift

Sat. 20 Sept. Sylvia Townsend Warner, Summer will Show

Sat. 25 Oct. Malachi Whitaker, The Journey Home and Other Stories

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2025

Great to see a blue plaque for the brilliant writer Malachi Whitaker.

We look forward to studying her short stories in our Women Writers Season, with a lecture by Valerie Waterhouse. Sat. 25 October 2025, live online.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2025/p...

Virginia Woolf Season live online: Woolf and Politics.

Next live online lecture in our Woolf Season: Angela Harris on the Politics of Jacob’s Room (1922).

Sat 10 May 2025, 6.00-8.00 pm British time

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-season...

#Woolf #virginiawoolf #jacobsroom #womenwriters

Virginia Woolf: Writing Life. Summer course 2025.

We study:
Mrs Dalloway (1925)
To the Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
The Waves (1931)
Flush (1933)

Five days of intensive study, conversation, and friendship.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

New course: Elizabeth von Arnim: Men, Women and Dogs
29 October to 10 December 2025, 6.00-8.00 pm
Live online course on Elizabeth von Arnim, one of the great satirists of the early 20th century.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/von-arnim-2025
#womenwriters #ElizabethvonArnim #katherinemansfield

Next in our Women Writers Season 2025.
George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)

Live online lecture and seminar with Clare Walker Gore, University of Cambridge.
Sat. 26 April 2025, 18.00-20.00

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2025/p...
#middlemarch #GeorgeEliot #womenwriters

Thanks to Mariah Whelan for a terrific short course studying the poetry of Coleridge through close reading. What brilliant poetry.

We really look forward to the next course, on Tennyson, 1 June and 8 June 2025. Live online.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/tennyson/

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The EA is seeking to grow its membership…membership fees contribute directly to our advocacy work, activities, events.There is much more work to do! We value the contribution our members make, our diverse communities across all sectors represent our subject, shaping its future together. Plse share ⬇️

Close Reading the Poetry of Tennyson

Join us for a short course (2 sessions) on the wonderful poetry of Tennyson. Led by Dr Mariah Whelan, poet and lecturer.

Sundays, 1 June and 8 June 2025, 2.00-4.00 pm British Summer Time

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/tennyson

#tennyson #poetry

New course: Comedy and Irony in the Young Jane Austen. Live online with Dr Fred Parker, Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge.

Sundays, weekly, 4 May - 25 May 2025, 6.00 to 8.00 pm British Summer Time.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/austen-2025

#janeausten

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2025
Live online, 10-14 July 2025
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-online...

Our 2025 Virginia #Woolf course is on theme of Virginia Woolf: Writing Life. The course will run twice: first, live online, then in person in Cambridge (20-25 July). Join us! #virginiawoolf

Katherine Mansfield: Stories of Life and Death
Live online course on Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of the greatest short story writers of the 20thC.

Six live online lectures and seminars with leading scholars.
Wednesdays, 14 May to 18 June 2025
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/km-course-25

Next in our live online Virginia Woolf Season: Varsha Panjwani will lecture on Orlando (1928) and the Politics of Biography.

Saturday 12 April 2025
18.00-20.00 British Summer Time

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/woolf-season-5

#woolf #virginiawoolf #womenwriters #bloomsburygroup

New course on Murdoch from @litcamb.bsky.social starting next year!

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-2026

Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Thank you to everyone who has signed the petition which now stands at 15,000+! You can #DoTheWriteThing & stop #MetaBookTheives by adding your signature here✒️ authr.uk/sp40

Rosemary Hill · At Pallant House: On Dora Carrington Insofar as Dora Carrington has had a wider reputation, it has rested chiefly on her landscapes. In 2014, Farm at...

‘It was only, perhaps, in the applied arts that she completely lost self-consciousness. The tinsel pictures, made of foil pressed against glass, which she ran up to sell at Liberty, are a delight.’

Rosemary Hill on Dora Carrington and 1920s British art culture: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Join us for a short course Close Reading the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, led by Mariah Whelan.

Sundays, 6 April and 13 April 2025, 2.00 to 4.00 pm British Summer Time.

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/coleridge

#Coleridge #romanticpoetry #studypoetry

Women Writers Season 2025: live online

We study great works by women from the early 19thC until the 1930s. One lecture per month. Next in the season:
Sat. 26 April. Clare Walker Gore on George Eliot, Middlemarch (1872)
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/women-2025

#middlemarch #womenwriters