Reading Groups

A Year of Virginia Woolf: Volume I with Anne Fernald

4 sessions Tuesdays, 6:00 pm EDT - 7:30 pm EDT October 21, 2025 to January 20, 2026

The Center for Fiction

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The ‘With Books’ option includes the titles required for this group at an additional 10% discount from our Bookstore.

This is the first of three installments in a yearlong exploration of Virginia Woolf’s work. Email Zenzelé ([email protected]) to join the waitlist or be notified when registration opens for upcoming installments.

Meeting Dates:
10/21, 11/18, 12/16, 1/20
In Person at The Center for Fiction

This is the first installment of a reading group dedicated to reading all ten of Virginia Woolf’s novels in order, from The Voyage Out (1915) to the posthumously published Between the Acts (1941). We will track her various experiments with form, character, narrative, and satire and watch her ideas develop and change over her career. There’s no need to be afraid of Virginia Woolf! All readers and re-readers are welcome.

Note: This is the first of three installments in our yearlong exploration of Virginia Woolf’s catalog. Each session will cover a different set of books; readers are welcome and encouraged to sign up for one, two, or all three installments when they are announced!

What to read in advance of the first meeting: Please read The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf in its entirety.

What to expect from this reading group: Unstructured, joyful, and gently guided conversation with biographical and historical context provided by the instructor.

Reading List:

Upcoming Programming: Discuss Woolf’s short story “Kew Gardens” in Anne Fernald’s single-session In Short on September 30th. Then, join Fernald and fellow author and professor Urmila Seshagiri at The Center on October 16th to celebrate the release of The Life of Violet, the highly anticipated collection of experimental fiction by Virginia Woolf, edited by Seshagiri.

Led by

Anne Fernald

Anne Fernald

Anne Fernald is a professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Fordham University. She is at work on a collective biography of modern women writers.

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