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Brontës Season (opens the original)
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Join us for a Season of lectures on the writing of the three Brontë sisters. Coming up• Saturday 3 October 2026. Trudi Tate, Power and Injustice: Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847).• Saturday 7 November 2026. Greta Colombani, The Poetry of Emily Brontë.•
Mrs Dalloway and Fashion History (opens the original)
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Mrs Dalloway (1925) and Fashion HistoryPart of our Virginia Woolf Season on Woolf and HistoryNancy, dressed at enormous expense by the greatest artists in Paris, stood there looking as if her body had merely put forth, of its own accord, a green frill.Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, p. 134.Mrs Dalloway was written at a time when Woolf was beginning to be involved with the world of fashion via an association with the Editor of Vogue, Dorothy Todd, and the fashion editor Madge Garland. The novel shows an acu
The Many Histories of Between the Acts (1941) (opens the original)
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Virginia Woolf and HistoryVirginia Woolf’s posthumously published novel Between the Acts is haunted by histories private and public. She did not wish it to be published in the form in which she left it, and it thus has a uniquely strange position in the history of her own writing. During the period of its composition, Woolf was drafting a history of English literature, tentatively titled ‘Reading at Random’ or ‘Turning the Page’; she was drafting a memoir, fragments of which were later published
Close Reading the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (opens the original)
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Emily DickinsonWe should not mind so small a flowerWe should not mind so small a flower Except it quiet bringOur little garden that we lostBack to the Lawn again -So spicy her Carnations nod -So drunken, reel her Bees -So silver, steal a hundred flutesFrom out a hundred trees -That whoso sees this little flowerBy faith, may clear beholdThe Bobolinks around the throneAnd Dandelions gold.</blockquote
Mrs Dalloway (1925) and the Peace Treaties (opens the original)
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Virginia Woolf Season live online: Woolf and HistoryMrs Dalloway is set in 1923, nearly 5 years after the end of the First World War. The Treaty of Versailles had been completed in 1919, but other important treaties were negotiated over the next few years. Settling the peace was a long and often unjust process. This is an important context for understanding Woolf’s novel. The novel is in a sense a history of its own time, written 1923-24 and published in 1925.At the same time, Mrs Dalloway is de
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