The four exhibits on this site are appendices for a teaching edition of Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse created by the students in my graduate seminar on Woolf in Fall 2021. The students chose the topics for these appendices designed to help high school students and undergraduates understand the novel in terms of its aesthetic, environmental, economic, and political contexts. Students (credited on each exhibit) had a relatively short timeframe for researching and creating these exhibits given that we did not decide on this project until midway through the semester. They are to be commended for their stunning results.

You can go to the Exhibits page and access the appendices that way, or you can go to the Dinner Party Seating chart, which serves as our entrée to the exhibits. The seating chart identifies the characters around the table at Mrs. Ramsay’s dinner party, using three characters and the famous dish, boeuf en daube, to link to the exhibits.

Pamela L. Caughie