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...
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
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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-...
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
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
Do join us.
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
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/...
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
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Immediately after the 2026 Woolf Summer Course in Cambridge, we offer an optional trip to Monks House, and also to Charleston, home to Woolf’s sister Vanessa Bell and her circle. Limited spaces, first priority to members of the course.
www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/charleston
