[Vwoolf] Online talk 11 May, FREE to VWSGB members

[Virginia Woolf Society of GB]

‘Clothes in Woolf’s Fiction’, talk by Claire Nicholson

Wednesday 11 May, 5.30pm BST

Virginia Woolf’s lifetime spanned enormous changes in clothing,
particularly for women. As a child of the Victorian era she knew the
torture of wearing layers of cumbersome clothing with endless tapes and
fasteners, but by adulthood she had witnessed the pared-down simplicity of
1920s’ day dresses and women wearing trousers.

With the acute observation skills of a novelist, Woolf employed clothing
imagery in her fiction to illuminate her characters and to give materiality
to the narrative. Over the course of her writing clothing became much more
than simply an illustration and began to function on multiple levels,
reflecting changing attitudes to dress from the Edwardian era to the early
1940s.

This talk will chart the evolution of Woolf’s clothing imagery in her
fiction, focusing upon four texts that illustrate significant changes: *The
Voyage Out *(1915); *Jacob’s Room* (1922); *The Years* (1937); and *Between
the Acts* (1941).

Claire Nicholson is Chair of the Virginia Woolf Society of GB and a Course
Director for Cambridge University Institute for Continuing Education. She
is co-editor of *The Women Aesthetes* (2014) and *The Voyage Out: Centenary
Perspectives* (2015), and she has contributed articles to journals in the
UK and USA. She was awarded her doctorate for a thesis entitled ‘In Woolf’s
Clothing’ in 2013.

This event is FREE for members only, who will receive the web link before
the event. From July, we will need to make a small charge for online talks
in order to cover speaker costs, as for in-person events. We are very
grateful to those speakers who provided such high-quality talks gratis
during lockdown, but could not expect this to continue in the long term.
All online events will continue to be for members only.

If you're not a member but would like to be, see the Membership page of the
website: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk/membership

Hope to see some of you on 11 May!

Sarah



Sarah M. Hall
Executive Council, Virginia Woolf Society of GB
Web: virginiawoolfsociety.org.uk
Facebook: @VWSGB
Twitter: @VirginiaWoolfGB
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