![]() In this writer's lodge, Woolf wrote parts of all her major novels from Mrs Dalloway to Between the Acts, many essays and reviews, and many letters. ![]() They built a little brick patio in front of the lodge, and on summer evenings, visitors would come and sit and watch the extremely competitive games of bowls being played on the lawn. She wrote there with a board on her lap (as her father, Leslie Stephen, used to do). ![]() Ten years later, the "writing lodge", as she called it, was moved down to the far end of the garden, under the chestnut tree next to the flint churchyard wall. In winter it was often so bitterly cold and damp that she couldn't hold her pen and had to retreat indoors. ![]() She was always being distracted - by Leonard sorting the apples over her head in the loft, or the church bells at the bottom of the garden, or the noise of the children in the school next door, or the dog sitting next to her and scratching itself and leaving paw marks on her manuscript pages. She wrote there in the summers, and liked it very much, though it was not ideal for concentration. It had big windows and a view of the Downs across to Mount Caburn. Two years later, she had a small writing room in the garden constructed out of a wooden toolshed below a loft. Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought their house in Sussex, Monk's House in Rodmell, in 1919, for £700. ![]()
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