This October our Literary Footprints festival celebrates London books and authors with over 40 walks and talks

Among the events will be a series of walks looking at one of the greatest of London Writers – Virginia Woolf

Virginia to Vita Sackville-West, Nov. 13, 1937

“I’ ll take you to The Tower–I’ve just been there, this dripping Sunday; because almost every day I take my walk through the City. I like it better than Kent–Bread Street, Camomile Street, Seething Lane, All Hallows, St Olaves–Then out one comes at The Tower, and there I walk on the terrace by the guns, with the ships coming up or down–which is it? . . . “

Virginia Woolf loved to walk the streets of London, and her work contains vivid descriptions of places that are familiar today. Our series of walks visits places important in her life and work, and we have a talk about her life and loves in the atmospheric location of St Olave’s Hart Street, Pepys local church and a place Virginia held dear.

The programme is as follows
2nd October 7pm Mrs Dalloway’s Day 
A walk with Rob Smith tracing the route taken by Clarissa Dalloway on her way to buy flowers for her party in Virginia Woolf’s classic London novel

4th October 2pm Circles, Squares and Triangles – Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury
Stephen Benton visits the locations of Virginia Woolf’s four Bloomsbury homes, and talks about the books she wrote there

8th October 2pm Circles, Squares and Triangles – Virginia Woolf in Bloomsbury
Stephen Benton visits the locations of Virginia Woolf’s four Bloomsbury homes, and talks about the books she wrote there

12th October 2pm The Lives and Loves of the Bloomsbury Group
Jenni Bowley tells the story of the writers who “lived in squares and loved in triangles”

13th October 6.30pm Virginia Woolf and Friends – her life, her love, her books
A talk at St Olave’s Hart Street church by Peter Henderson, Rob Smith, Stephen Benton and Jenni Bowley

20th October Literary Bloomsbury
Peter Henderson looks at the many writers, poets and playwrights that have made Bloomsbury their home.

Tickets for each event cost £10 or you can buy a great value Festival Season Ticket which gives access to over 40 walks during October for £40

Anyone who signs up for one of these events, buys a Festival Season Ticket or signs up for the Literary Footprints Mailing List before the end of September will go into a prize draw to win tickets and a catalogue for the National Portrait Gallery exhibition Virginia Woolf: art Life and Vision

Hope you can make one of these

Stephen, Rob, Jenni and Peter