Book Woolf online summer course 2025

Virginia Woolf: Writing Life

Our live online summer course takes place from Thursday 10 July to Monday 14 July 2025.

Our 2025 online Virginia Woolf course will explore the theme of Virginia Woolf: Writing Life. How does one write a life? How does one create a fictional life? We will look at the ways in which Woolf writes real and imaginary lives and how these differ from one book to the next.

We will study Woolf’s writing of the lives of her great fictional characters Clarissa Dalloway, Septimus Smith, Mrs Ramsay, the six characters in The Waves. We will explore how she uses, and challenges, the traditions of biography in Orlando (1928) and Flush (1933). We will think about Woolf’s own writing life: her life as a writer, and what that meant to her. And we will do a reading of her only play, Freshwater, which takes a comical look at the lives of her Victorian forebears.

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