LSE Library is celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library and will hold a talk about Virginia Stephen’s link to suffrage campaigning – you might know her better as Virginia Woolf!
The talk will consider the ways in which Virginia Stephen’s early alliance with The People’s Suffrage Federation may have influenced the politics and aesthetics of her second novel Night and Day (1919). It will conclude with a focus on a later moment of feminist involvement for Virginia Woolf: her involvement throughout the 1930s with The Women’s Service Library, forerunner to The Women’s Library – see our Timeline for more about this.
Speaker:
Clara Jones is a Reader in Modern Literature at King’s College London. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (EUP, 2016), the edited collection Virginia Woolf and Capitalism (EUP, 2024) and British Interwar Women Writers: Class, Gender, Genre (EUP, 2026). Her next major research project, ‘Committee Woman‘, is a literary and cultural history of British women’s administrative labour in cultural organisations and social movements from the first half of the twentieth century.
LSE Chair:
Dr Deidre Troy is an LSE Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of Government
Deirdre’s research examines political theories of citizenship, immigration and banishment, with a specific focus on Britain and empire. She is interested in developing political theories through historical and archival analysis, and her research considers how imperial politics continue to shape practices related to the institution of citizenship
14 May, 6pm-7:30pm, in-person at the LSE Alumni Centre – CBG on the map available here
Tickets are free, but booking is essential and you can reserve a ticket here
