Virginia Woolf Season 2024-25: Woolf and Politics

When Virginia Stephen and her siblings moved to Bloomsbury in 1904, it was a neighbourhood that Londoners often associated with people of colour. In 1910, four South African law students shared an attic flat at number 31 Fitzroy Square – just two doors down from Virginia and her brother Adrian at number 29.

Black people were a vibrant part of British life, yet Black people are nearly absent from Woolf’s writing, just as they are absent from much of early 20th-century British literature and history.

What happens when we consider A Room of One’s Own, Woolf’s most profound statement on freedom and creativity, in the context of Black Britain in the early 20th century?

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