BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/virginia-stephen-an d-the-peoples-suffrage-federation/calender.ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:e8ea3860-1df8-4147-a3a1-eb58b8d72c75 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260513T065843 DTSTART:20260514T170000 DTEND:20260514T183000 SUMMARY:Virginia Stephen and The People's Suffrage Federation LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (LSE Alumni Ce ntre) DESCRIPTION:Thursday 14 May 2026 6pm - 7.30pmSpeakerClara JonesChairDr Dei rdre TroyJoin us for a talk about Virginia Stephen\, later Woolf's\, link to suffrage campaigning!This event is part of the series celebrating the 1 00th anniversary of The Women’s Library.Clara Jones' talk will focus on Virginia Stephen\, later Woolf's\, association with the People’s Suffrag e Federation (PSF) - an adult suffrage organisation campaigning for univer sal suffrage with no property qualifications. With reference to contempora ry suffrage newspapers and the PSF papers at The Women's Library\, this ta lk will explore the PSF’s dual feminist/socialist agenda and reveal the contentious position it occupied within the suffrage movement.The talk wil l consider the ways in which Virginia Stephen’s early alliance with this group may have influenced the politics and aesthetics of her second novel Night and Day (1919). It will conclude with a focus on a later moment of feminist involvement for Virginia Woolf: her involvement throughout the 19 30s with The Women's Service Library\, forerunner to The Women's Library.S peakerClara Jones is a Reader in Modern Literature at King’s College Lon don. Her publications include Virginia Woolf: Ambivalent Activist (EUP\, 2 016)\, the edited collection Virginia Woolf and Capitalism (EUP\, 2024) an d British Interwar Women Writers: Class\, Gender\, Genre (EUP\, 2026). Her next major research project\, 'Committee Woman'\, is a literary and cultu ral history of British women’s administrative labour in cultural organis ations and social movements from the first half of the twentieth century.C hairDeidre Troy is an LSE Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of Government. Deirdre’s research examines political theories of citizenshi p\, immigration and banishment\, with a specific focus on Britain and empi re. She is interested in developing political theories through historical and archival analysis\, and her research considers how imperial politics c ontinue to shape practices related to the institution of citizenship.Furth er informationAbout us The British Library of Political and Economic Scien ce\, known as LSELibrary\, was founded in 1896\, a year after the London S chool of Economics and Political Science. 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