Virginia Woolf and Childhood with Literature Cambridge

Waterstones Cambridge is proud to host Ann Kennedy Smith for a talk on Virginia Woolf and Julian Bell. This talk is in collaboration with Literature Cambridge and their summer course on Virginia Woolf and Childhood.

Ann Kennedy Smith is a writer, researcher, and literary critic. She grew up in Ballycastle, County Antrim and gained her first degree in French and German (joint honours) at Trinity College Dublin. She began her studies at Queens’ College Cambridge in 1985, and received her PhD on Charles Baudelaire’s art criticism in 1990. She then worked as a dictionary editor at Cambridge University Press as part of the team who created the first Cambridge International Dictionary of English, and later taught literature and art history at the Workers’ Educational Association and the Institute of Continuing Education at University of Cambridge.

Her essays and reviews have been published in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Slightly Foxed magazine, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Journal of Victorian Culture, English Review and History Today. She is a member of Clare Hall Art Committee.

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