Hello and welcome to my latest post. This July and August 2026, I’m delighted to be taking part in the tenth anniversary of summer courses run by , this year on the theme of ‘Virginia Woolf and the Natural World’. You can find more information and book a place on the five-day course, which takes place in-person and online, on the website here. There’s a great line-up of lecturers and speakers this year, including Harriet Baker (author of Rural Hours) and among others.
My own talk ‘Sleeping on the ground and swimming in a river: Virginia Woolf, Rupert Brooke and the Neo-Pagans’ will be about the ‘Neo-Pagan’ circle that gathered around Rupert Brooke from 1908 to 1912, and its lasting legacy. Today I’m introducing the four Olivier sisters. ‘If Rupert conceived and developed the closest thing to a Neo-Pagan ideology,’ writes their biographer Sarah Watling, ‘the Oliviers were the driving force behind the outdoor gatherings for which the group became known.’ (More about her book, Noble Savages, in my next post.)
Read on for more about Woolf, Brooke and the ‘Neo-Pagan’ group on one memorable camping trip in 1911.
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