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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · 28d

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

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Iris Murdoch @irismurdoch.bsky.social · Aug 1

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...

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...

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Malachi Whitaker @malachiwhitaker.bsky.social · Sep 1

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

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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

www.literaturecambridge.co.uk

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Blogging Woolf @bloggingwoolf.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

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.

bloggingwoolf.org

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · May 7

‘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...

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

www.thetimes.com

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 5

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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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 5

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 3

Starts tomorrow.
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

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · May 3

‘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...

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’...

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 2

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 1

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · May 1

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...

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 20

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 17

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-...

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 15

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 13

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 English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social · Apr 11

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 ⬇️

A poster that gives 10 reasons to join the English Association. Email us and we can send it in a PDF.

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 6

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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Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social · Apr 6

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