20th-century book club schedule 2026
Plus your suggestions of the best overlooked novels by women writers
Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society
True stories of pioneering Cambridge women 1870-1920, and mid-century fiction
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August letter from Cambridge
Summer reading (new books and old), suffragettes and sisters
Some personal book news
My chapter about Ellen Wordsworth Darwin published this July
Ray Strachey, Cambridge suffragist
‘If we get the vote now, it will be entirely due to her'
July letter from Cambridge
Night & Day v. Virginia Woolf's Night and Day | Mary Paley Marshall | new exhibitions
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Elizabeth Jenkins (3): lives of formidable women
Connecting fiction and stories from life
The education of Helen Gladstone (1849–1925)
'Wanted at home'
A May morning letter from Cambridge
Books, bouquets of flowers and underground poetry
A Mother's Day gift
Susannah Wedgwood Darwin (1765-1817)
Elizabeth Jenkins (2): The Tortoise and the Hare
An author who really should be better known.
April letter from Cambridge
84, Charing Cross Road and the Cambridge professor
Those daring Olivier sisters (2)
A love letter from Rupert Brooke to Noel Olivier, and her no-nonsense reply
Those daring Olivier sisters (1)
Part 1: Virginia Woolf and the Neo-Pagans
The secret library in St Paul's
Christopher Wren's hidden gem
Elizabeth Jenkins (1): becoming a writer
Pernel Strachey (1876-1951), Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Jenkins
A Cambridge letter for a Spring morning
With some exciting book news in 2026
The Bishop's wife
Louise Creighton 1850–1936
Woman with a camera
Lettice Ramsey (1898–1985)
A Cambridge love letter
February 2026: celebrating love and other imperfections