Rear of Monk's House, country retreat of the novelist Virginia Woolf.

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Leonard and Virginia Woolf's 17th-century country retreat. Nestled in the heart of rural Sussex, Monk’s House is a tranquil 17th-century weatherboarded cottage inhabited by Leonard and the novelist Virginia Woolf from 1919 until Leonard's death in 1969. The Woolfs bought Monk's House for the 'shape and fertlity and wildness of the garden'. Today, the lovely cottage garden contains a mix of flowers, vegetables, orchards, lawns and ponds.

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Size: 5616px × 3744px
Location: rodmell lewes sussex
Photo credit: © Mike Coombes / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: 17th, art, artist, bloomsbury, century, cottage, house, leonard, lewes, retreat, rodmell, virginia, woolf, writing