We look forward to a talk by Ann Kennedy Smith on Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke and the Neo-Pagans in our 2026 summer course. Live online summer course, 9-13 July 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 Summer course in Cambridge, 2-7 August www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Join us for an intensive week of study on Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. This will run twice. First, live online, 9-13 July 2026. We will study: - Jacob’ s Room - To the Lighthouse - The Waves - The Years - Between the Acts More information: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026

"Better is wisdom than weapons of war" (Girton College, University of Cambridge) #HigherEd #woke #antifa #edchat #suffrage #women #art #protest #edusky

On 13 June 1908 Ray Strachey was among 300 Cambridge University women's suffrage supporters who proceeded through London carrying a banner designed by Mary Lowndes, and hand-sewn by Newnham and Girton women with the motto 'Better is Wisdom than Weapons of War'.

For Bloomsday, a little piece about the poetry of Ulysses, and the poets it has inspired, from Tom Paulin to Kate Bush

New course, live online, with Miles Leeson. Iris Murdoch and Marriage. ‘Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one’s luck.’ Sundays, fortnightly, 10 January to 7 March 2027, 6.00-8.00 pm UK time www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/murdoch-marr...

Iris Murdoch | BBC Sounds - In Our Time www.bbc.com/audio/play/m...

Heat is a feminist issue. Heat is a disability rights issue. Heat is definitely a class issue. Heat is also definitely experienced by racialized minorities in extreme ways. In India, heat is a caste issue. Extreme heat reveals the fissures in societies and who we are willing to ‘let die’

After the 2026 Woolf Summer Course in Cambridge, we offer an optional trip to Monks House and Charleston. Now open to people outside the course. Price includes coach from Cambridge and back plus entry to both houses. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/charleston

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 in the Literature Cambridge Audio Archive: Professor Dame Gillian Beer, Reading The Waves Across A Lifetime. You can subscribe monthly or annually. 25 lectures, on Tennyson, Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Winifred Holtby, George Orwell, and more. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/member-site-...

Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny. Live online course, Thursdays, 3 September to 15 October 2026, 6.00 to 8.00 pm British Summer Time. We study: The Grass is Singing (1950) Martha Quest (1952) The Golden Notebook (1962) The Summer before the Dark (1973) www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/lessing-2025

Just a couple of places left: Close Reading the Poetry of Seamus Heaney with Mariah Whelan, Saturday 20 June and Saturday 27 June. Live online, 2.00-4.00 pm British Summer Time. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/heaney

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2026. Trudi Tate will discuss The Weather in History in The Years (1937). Brilliant. For more on this lecture see: substack.com/@litcamb/p-1... Just a few places left. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 Jackdaw cyanotypes by Deborah Parkin

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2026. Ellie Mitchell will discuss Between Earth and Sky in Between the Acts (1941). Excellent. For more on this lecture see: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-... Just a few places left. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer Course 2026. Kate Eliot will lecture on Sea and Sky in The Waves (1931). Read about her topic here: litcamb.substack.com/p/nature-in-... Further information: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Tomorrow!

Close Reading the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. Live online seminars with Mariah Whelan. Saturdays, 20 June and 27 June 2026 14.00-16.00 British Summer Time 15.00-17.00 Central European Summer Time Morning in the Americas www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/heaney

Night and Day was Virginia Woolf’s second novel, published in 1919. It is perhaps under-appreciated, but it’s an important, interesting book and well worth reading. Our lecturer Ellie Mitchell wrote about N+D for its centenary in 2019: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/night-day

Visions of Venice: writings on Venice by Byron, Ruskin, Dickens, Henry James, Daphne du Maurier and more. Live online course with Miles Leeson. Sundays, fortnightly, 20 September to 15 November 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/venice

This Saturday 13 June, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time. Join us for the final session in our live online Virginia Woolf Season. Our theme is Woolf’s Rooms. Ellie Mitchell will talk about Rooms in The Waves (1931). Unmissable. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6/...

Listen again! New lectures in our Archive: Claire Davison on Katherine Mansfield + Anton Chekhov Trudi Tate on Katherine Mansfield Alison Hennegan on Radclyffe Hall Claire Davison on Winifred Holtby Trudi Tate on The Beekeeper of Aleppo www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/member-site-...

New: Study Day in person in Cambridge, 13 December 2026, 2.00-5.00 pm. Join us to study two recent novels by Ali Smith: Autumn (2016) and So in the Spruce Forest (2025). Led by Dr Alex Calder, University of Cambridge. Unmissable. Further information: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/ali-smith-st...

Close reading the poetry of Seamus Heaney, two sessions beginning Saturday 20 June. Together we will observe, analyse and discuss the technical prowess and arresting ideas that make Heaney’s poems so beloved. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/heaney

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2026: Woolf and the Natural World. Anne Kennedy Smith will talk about Woolf, Rupert Brooke and the ‘neo-pagans’. Brilliant. More on the talk: substack.com/@annkennedys... www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Do join us.

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2026. This will run twice: online 9-13 July; in person in Cambridge, 2-7 August. We study: Jacob’s Room, To the Lighthouse, The Waves, The Years, Between the Acts; and more www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

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

A new film based on Virginia Woolf’s 1919 novel, Night and Day. Join us for an exclusive preview and panel discussion on 18 June at the Cambridge Arts Picturehouse. www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail...

The Golden Age of detective fiction was dominated by women writers, 'The Queens'. We will meet four of them: Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Margery Allingham, and Gladys Mitchell. Get ready for poison, betrayal and psychoanalysis. Begins 31 Oct. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/detective-fi...

Women and Power in mid-20thC Fiction with Miles Leeson. This is a hybrid course, with four x 60-minute recorded video lectures, ending with a live online seminar. We study novels by Patricia Highsmith, Barbara Comyns, Muriel Spark and Brigid Brophy. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/wp1

Summer Course 2026: Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. Lectures, tutorials, talks, discussions, and more. Harriet Baker will talk about Woolf’s nature writing in her early Diary. Live online: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 In Cambridge: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

Close Reading Seamus Heaney. Join us for a brilliant short course with Mariah Whelan on the poems of Seamus Heaney. A rare chance to get to study some of his marvellous work in detail. Saturdays, 20 June and 27 June 2026 14.00-16.00 British Summer Time. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/heaney

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer course 2026 This will run twice: live online, 9-13 July. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 In person in Cambridge, 2-7 August: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-... Whether online or in person, it’s an amazing experience. Do join us

The Guardian newspaper asked 170 novelists, critics and academics for their top 10 works of fiction, ranked in order. Five of the 100 were novels by Virginia Woolf. #TheGuardian #100bestnovels #VirginiaWoolf bloggingwoolf.org

Just a few places left on our 2026 Woolf Summer Courses. Our theme is Virginia Woolf and the Natural World. The course will run twice: Live online, 9-13 July 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 In person in Cambridge, 2-7 August. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Next weekend, Saturday 13 June, 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time. Join us for the final session in our live online Virginia Woolf Season. Our theme is Woolf’s Rooms. Ellie Mitchell will talk about Rooms in The Waves (1931). Brilliant. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw-season-6/...

We're very pleased to be attending the 2026 Modern British Studies Conference this week. If you're also in Birmingham please stop by to say hello to our staff members, Hannah and Charlotte, pick up a badge, and learn more about the Society. @modbritstud.bsky.social #MBS2026 #Skystorians

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer Course 2026. Trudi Tate will lecture on The Weather in History: The Years (1937). Read about her topic here: litcamb.substack.com/p/the-weathe... Further information about the summer course: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

A wide-ranging introduction to the pleasures of reading Paradise Lost, a magnificent work which deeply shaped the English imagination. A pair of lectures and seminars live online with Fred Parker, Saturdays 10 October and 17 October. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/milton

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer Course 2026. Kate Eliot will lecture on Sea and Sky in The Waves (1931). Read about her topic here: litcamb.substack.com/p/nature-in-... Further information: www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer Course 2026. Karina Jakubowicz will lecture on The Artist’s Garden in To the Lighthouse (1927). Read about her topic here: substack.com/@litcamb/p-1... www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-...

A cracking review in @irishtimes.com THE LIGHTNING by @jamesgwriter.bsky.social @inpressbooks.bsky.social @thebookseller.com @bookcornerhx.bsky.social @foylesforbooks.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Thanks to a generous grant, we're so pleased to be able to offer 150 fee waivers for submitting to the 2026 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize! If you are a low/no-income writer or translator hoping to enter this year’s prize ... 🧵

Tomorrow! Join us for a live online lecture and seminar with Miles Leeson on Murdoch's newly-published poetry, Poems from An Attic: Selected Poems 1936-1995. Sunday 31 May at 6.00-8.00 pm British Summer Time. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/news/murdoch... #irismurdoch

Virginia Woolf and the Natural World: Summer Course 2026. Alison Hennegan will lecture on Women and Nature in Jacob’s Room. Read about her topic here: litcamb.substack.com/p/women-and-... www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-... Photo of Alison by Jeremy Peters

Virginia Woolf Summer Course 2026: Woolf and the Natural World. Five days' intensive study and discussion. The course takes place twice: Live online, 9-13 July 2026. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/vw2026 In person in Cambridge, 2-7 August. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/summer-camb-... Do join us.

We look forward to close reading Shelley, in a new short course led by poet and lecturer Mariah Whelan on Sundays 6 September and 13 September. Together we will analyse the technical prowess and arresting ideas that make Shelley's writing so powerful. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/shelley

Doris Lessing: Women and Destiny begins 3 September. Described by Margaret Drabble as ‘the kind of writer who changes people’s lives’, Lessing is highly perceptive of the history of her times. Discover her anew in our course this September. www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/lessing-2025