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SIn the summer of 2013, I first visited Virginia’s Monk’s House and Leonard Woolf Farm in the town of Rodmell, near Lewes in East Sussex. It is now owned by the National Trust Foundation and is open to the public every afternoon during the summer. He had just read Virginia Woolf’s niece Angelica Garnett’s autobiography “In All Well Being” and was working on Woolf’s journal “Moments of Freedom.” It was special to be able to step in with the Woolfs, as well as submerged green living rooms, the favorite color that Sister Vanessa Bell teased Virginia about. I came to talk to one of the guides for a long time, he was delighted that we had come from Sweden and we were so interested in Woolf’s writing. We also talked about Angelica Garnett who he met recently, just before her death. “Poor Angelica,” he said thoughtfully, “she probably didn’t have such a happy life.”
Before heading out into the sunshine in the colorful June garden, he asked us to attend next week’s evening conference at Monk’s House. Last week, Cecil Woolf was there and told him about his memories of his uncle and aunt. And in the little National Trust museum shop was Caroline Zoob’s newly published house and garden masterpiece, the preface of which was written by Cecil Woolf.
