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Absolutely Gets a Sneak Peek into the Old Home of Virginia Woolf

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Absolutely visits ‘Bloomsbury on Sea’ to admire the former home of Virginia Woolf – now the National Trust’s Monk’s House

Absolutely visits ‘Bloomsbury on Sea’ to admire the former home of Virginia Woolf – now the National Trust’s Monk’s House Words Nancy Alsop One blustery June day in 1919, Virginia Woolf hopped on her bicycle at Lewes, the pretty East Sussex market town where she and her husband Leonard had hastily bought a house in the stump of an old windmill not three weeks earlier, and cycled four miles southward to the village of Rodmell. Despite having just moved into Round House, the “”butt end of an old windmill, so that all the rooms are either completely round or semi circular”, she found that her…

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