After the Waves (AW17)

Virginia Woolf’s “writing lodge” stands under a chestnut tree at the far end of the garden at Monk’s House, the Woolfs’ Sussex retreat.
The author of A Room of One’s Own opted for a shed of her own, a place to which she walked every morning, an experience described as a vital part of her creative routine.
It was here, with glorious views over the downs, she wrote parts of all her major novels, from Mrs Dalloway to Between the Acts.
And it was here, in July 1931, that her husband Leonard came out to tell Virginia that The Waves, the manuscript of which he had just finished reading, was a masterpiece.