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A small weather-boarded house, the home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf until Leonard s death in 1969. The rooms reflect the life and times of the literary circle in which Virginia moved. There is a display of personal photographs and extracts from Virginia s diaries and letters in her garden writing room. By 1919, when Virginia and Leonard Woolf bought Monk's House, Virginia's first two novels had been written, but the experimental work which was to establish her reputation, in particular To the Lighthouse, The Waves and Mrs Dalloway, was still to come. During the years that the Woolfs lived at Monk's House, the modest simple rooms entertained some of the best-known literary and artistic figures of the day, including Vita Sackville-West, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, E M Forster, David Garnett and Roger Fry. Many visitors were members of the Bloomsbury Group which Virginia and her sister Vanessa Bell had founded with their brother Thoby. Outside, the weather-boarded garden house is almost filled with the huge battered table where Virginia wrote, her distinctive blue paper spread out on top.