Letter 8 - Letters From London

The House That Looks Like A Town

His idea for this field trip had been to take the students to visit the house that had inspired Virginia Woolf to write Orlando—Knole, Vita Sackville-West’s ancestral home—and then to see the home where Virginia Woolf wrote it—Monk’s House, as Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s home was called . There was no actual monk, as he would learn later from one of th…