We’ll go back to London for the night.
Sitting room at Monk's House (above)
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| A full-day excursion to the part
of Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at Monk’s House in the
village of Rodmell, and her sister Vanessa Bell and her family lived 6
miles away near the hamlet of Firle, in a house called Charleston. Both
homes are now museums and contain art work by the Bloomsbury painters. We
will take a guided tour of both houses. Monk’s House is where Woolf
wrote many of her novels, and where Leonard Woolf lived until his death in
1969. It has been preserved as it was when they lived there and includes
paintings and murals by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Virginia Woolf’s
ashes are buried in the garden of Monk’s House. Vanessa Bell and Duncan
Grant are buried in a church cemetery we will visit, and we will walk by
the River Ouse where Virginia Woolf drowned herself in 1941. A full-day
excursion to the part of Sussex where Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at
Monk’s House in the village of Rodmell, and her sister Vanessa Bell and
her family lived 6 miles away near the hamlet of Firle, in a house called
Charleston. Both homes are now museums and contain art work by the
Bloomsbury painters. We will take a guided tour of both houses. Monk’s
House is where Woolf wrote many of her novels, and where Leonard Woolf
lived until his death in 1969. It has been preserved as it was when they
lived there and includes paintings and murals by Vanessa Bell and Duncan
Grant. Virginia Woolf’s ashes are buried in the garden of Monk’s
House. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant are buried in a church cemetery we
will visit, and we will walk by the River Ouse where Virginia Woolf
drowned herself in 1941. We’ll go back to London for the night. |
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