The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain

'VIRGINIA IN CAMBRIDGE'

VIRGINIA WOOLF SOCIETY WEEK, 3 - 9 SEPTEMBER 2000


#01: Front Court, Trinity Hall #02: Part of St Catharine's College #03: North end, Wren Library #04: Wren Library, Trinity College_ #05: King's College Chapel
#06: Garden side of the Old Vicarage #07: Garden and folly, Old Vicarage #08: The Old Rectory #09: 'Duckpond', the Old Rectory #10: St Mary Magdalene, Warboys

  1. Front Court, Trinity Hall (Leslie Stephen's college)

  2. Part of St Catharine's College (previously the Bull Inn where Vanessa and Angelica stayed the night after Virginia gave her talk to the Arts Society at Newnham College, Saturday, 20 October 1928 - the talk upon which 'A Room of One's Own' is based)

  3. North end, Wren Library (the manuscript of 'Lycidas' is on display): see Ch. 1 of 'A Room of One's Own'

  4. Wren Library, Trinity College: see Ch. 1 of 'A Room of One's Own' ('That a famous library has been cursed by a woman is a matter of complete indifference to a famous library.')

  5. King's College Chapel: see Ch. 1 of 'A Room of One's Own' ('The organ complained magnificently as I passed the chapel door.')

  6. Garden side of the Old Vicarage [not open to the public], Grantchester, where Virginia stayed with Rupert Brooke in August 1911

  7. Garden and folly, Old Vicarage [not open to the public], Grantchester

  8. The Old Rectory [not open to the public], Warboys (see 'A Passionate Apprentice', August 1899)

  9. 'Duckpond', the Old Rectory [not open to the public], Warboys (see 'A Passionate Apprentice', August 1899, 'Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond')

  10. St Mary Magdalene, Warboys (see 'A Passionate Apprentice', August 1899)



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