Monk's House
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Monk's House is a cottage from the 18th century in Rodmell , 4.8 kilometers southeast of Lewes , East Sussex , England located. Writer Virginia Woolf and her husband, journalist and publisher Leonard Woolf , bought the house in 1919. They welcomed many Bloomsbury Group members including TS Eliot , EM Forster , Roger Fry and Lytton Strachey .
Virginia Woolf's sister, the painter Vanessa Bell , lived with Duncan Grant at the nearby Charleston Farmhouse in Firle from 1916. Both houses became outposts of the Bloomsbury Group in different ways.
Life in Monk's House
In the early years that the Woolfs lived in Rodmell, Monk's House was of modest size, with a garden that included an orchard and a few small outbuildings. Due to the simple equipment when buying the house, it was rebuilt and expanded: modernization of the kitchen, supply of hot water and a bathroom with toilet. In 1929 two floors were added. In 1928 they purchased adjacent land in order to get the appealing view of Mount Caburn from the garden .
The Woolfs spent many days in Rodmell, and from 1940, when their London townhouse in Mecklenburgh Square, Bloomsbury was damaged during a bombing raid , Monk's House became their permanent home. In the tranquility of the countryside, among other things her last novel took Between the Acts ( between the filing ) shape, which was published posthumously in July 1941 and has references to traditions Rodmell and its inhabitants.
In March 1941, at the age of 59, Virginia Woolf committed suicide by drowning herself in the nearby River Ouse . Leonard lived at Monk's House until his death in 1969 and played an active role in the local community. Virginia and Leonard Woolf had both been members of the Socialist Party. In the 1930s he became both director of the local Rodmell school and treasurer and president of the Rodmell and District Horticultural Society.
Monk's House today
After Leonard's death, it was inherited by the artist Trekkie Parsons, née Ritchie, who had become a close friend of Leonard Woolf after Virginia's death. Parsons sold the house to the University of Sussex in 1972 . In 1980 the house was given to the National Trust . The ground floor with living and dining room, the kitchen and Virginia Woolf's bedroom can be visited as well as the little house at the end of the garden in which she wrote her texts.
Virginia Woolf had documented her life in Rodmell with photographs that can be viewed in Monk's House. The albums include portraits and group photos of many people who came as visitors.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Diary of Virginia Woolf , ed. Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie, Five Volumes, Hogarth Press , 1977-84; The Letters of Virginia Woolf , ed. by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, six volumes, Hogarth Press, 1975–80.
- ^ Between the Acts , Hogarth Press, 1941.
- ^ LW Papers, University of Sussex Library Manuscript Collections.
- ^ LW Papers, University of Sussex Library Manuscript Collections.
- Jump up ↑ Maggie Humm, Snapshots of Bloomsbury: The Private Lives of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell , Tate Publishing, 2006.
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