Join the library for a special evening event with Dr. Beth Daugherty! Dr. Daugherty will be joining us to discuss her new book, “Virginia Woolf’s Apprenticeship”, on April 11th at 6pm on the second floor of the library. This event is INST approved and will be followed by a reception.

Before she was Virginia Woolf, famous novelist, essayist, and diarist, she was Virginia Stephen, apprentice, reader, learner. In her book, Beth Rigel Daugherty examines three major threads of Virginia Woolf’s apprenticeship, her homeschooling, teaching, and book reviewing. Many already know about Virginia Stephen’s education in her father’s library, but Daugherty’s talk and reading will focus on the libraries she learned in outside the family home: the London Library and the British Museum Reading Room.

It is an honor and a privilege to host Dr. Daugherty, and we hope you will join us!