Woolf Seminar

Bloomsbury: The Gordon Square house
 

As Hermione Lee puts it, each house was related to a death. Virginia Stephen grew up at 22 Hyde Park Gate, which is now a bed and breakfast. After Leslie Stephen's death in 1904, Virginia lived with her sister Vanessa and her brothers Thoby and Adrian at 46 Gordon Square. Thoby died of typhoid in 1906, and Vanessa married Clive Bell in February 1907. In 1907 Adrian and Virginia moved to 29 Fitzroy Square, taking a five-year lease for 120 pounds/year. Duncan Grant lived at 22 Fitzroy Square, and in 1913 Roger Fry would establish his studio and the Omega workshop at No. 33. The British Museum (with its huge library) was nearby, and many writers worked and did their research there. I took these slides in 1977. The new British Museum is quite different from the one pictured here.
 
 

46 Gordon Square	46 Gordon Square
these are from  slides taken in 1977	The British Museum in 1977