Showing posts with label Lewes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lewes. Show all posts

Friday, June 3, 2011

The Woolfs' Retreat


Virginia and Leonard, that is, in the East Sussex countryside.
Near Lewes.

This is still at the planning and moving around and humming and ha-ing stage, as you see. But I needed to take a photo just in case the lot went flying and I was left with bits on the studio floor and a paper puzzle to solve.

Next to Keats and his circle come the Bloomsberries in my affections. I caught both early - in my teens - and they persist all these years later. In fact now I come to think of it the first two things I bought myself with the first wages I earned in my first job was a smelly Afghan jacket and the two volume biography of Virginia Woolf by her nephew Quentin Bell.
Many years and thousands of kilometres later I still have the books. 

God knows what happened to that absolutely frightful jacket.