Welcome to DallowayDay!

Our theme this year is Modernist Women and we are delighted to announce an afternoon programme of discussion and celebration.

'Modernist Women Writers' and 'Into the 1920s' can be booked separately. The All-event ticket includes the 'Clarissa in Bond Street' walk, the two talks and the evening reception.

3.00pm - 4.00pm Clarissa in Bond Street

A Guided Walk with Jean Moorcroft Wilson, author of Virginia Woolf's London, will include anecdotes and readings along Clarissa Dalloway's Bond Street.

4.30pm - 5.30pm Modernist Women Writers

Join our panel discussion on Modernist Women Writers with Natasha Brown, Suzanne Hobson and Maggie Humm.

Natasha Brown, author of a celebrated debut novel, Assembly, which the Guardian called ‘a modern Mrs Dalloway’ and said: ‘Assembly fulfils, with exquisite precision, Virginia Woolf’s exhortation to “record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall”’.

Suzanne Hobson (Queen Mary University of London), author of Angels of Modernism and Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns on London ‘Moderns’ in Virginia Woolf and Rose Macaulay.

The discussion will be chaired by Maggie Humm (Virginia Woolf Society of GB), author of Modernist Women and Visual Cultures, and a novel, Talland House, based on Woolf’s To the Lighthouse.

6.00pm - 7.00pm: Into the 1920s

Join Anne de Courcy to discuss Nancy Cunard, the Jazz Age and modernism, with Mark Banting (Hatchards).

Anne is the author of Five Love Affairs and a Friendship: The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age, which charts Cunard’s life in 1920s Paris, as poet, publisher and increasingly political 'outlaw'.

DallowayDay will then close with a glass of wine and a chance to chat with fellow guests and authors who will be signing copies of their books.

All welcome!