The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
WHERE VIRGINIA WOOLF LIVED IN LONDON
- 25 January 1882 - May 1904
22 Hyde Park Gate, W8
Blue plaque (erected 1960): SIR | LESLIE | STEPHEN | 1832-1904 | Scholar | and writer | lived here
- January 1905 - March 1907
46 Gordon Square, WC1
Blue plaque (erected 1975): JOHN | MAYNARD | KEYNES | 1883-1946 | Economist | lived here | 1916-1946
- April 1907 - November 1911
29 Fitzroy Square, W1
Blue plaque: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW | LIVED IN THIS HOUSE | FROM 1887 TO 1898 | | “FROM THE COFFERS OF HIS GENIUS | HE ENRICHED THE WORLD Blue plaque (erected 1974): Virginia | Stephen | (VIRGINIA WOOLF) | 1882-1941 | Novelist and Critic | lived here | 1907-1911
- 20 November 1911 - 29 October 1912
38 Brunswick Square, WC1
North side of square: demolished in about 1936 and replaced by the School of Pharmacy of the University of London
- 30 October 1912 - September 1913
13 Clifford’s Inn, between Chancery Lane, WC2, and Fetter Lane, EC4
Demolished in 1934 and replaced by offices and flats also called Clifford’s Inn
- 16 October 1914 - 25 March 1915
17 The Green, Richmond upon Thames, Surrey
- 1 April 1915 - 13 March 1924
Hogarth House (right-hand side of the building; the Woolfs bought the whole building in December 1919), Richmond upon Thames, Surrey
Blue plaque: In this house | LEONARD and | VIRGINIA WOOLF | lived | 1915-1924 | and founded the | Hogarth Press | 1917
- 15 March 1924 - August 1939
52 Tavistock Square, WC1
South side of square: bombed in October 1940 and replaced by the Tavistock Hotel in 1951
- 13 October 1939 - 27 August 1940
37 Mecklenburgh Square, WC1
North side of square: bombed in 1940 and replaced by William Goodenough House in 1957
Other plaques relevant to the Bloomsbury Group
- 50 Gordon Square, WC1
Brown plaque (London Borough of Camden): HERE AND | IN NEIGHBOURING | HOUSES DURING | THE FIRST HALF OF | THE 20th CENTURY | THERE LIVED SEVERAL | MEMBERS OF THE | BLOOMSBURY GROUP | INCLUDING | VIRGINIA WOOLF | CLIVE BELL AND | THE STRACHEYS
- 51 Gordon Square, WC1
Blue plaque (erected 1971 - see Holroyd): LYTTON | STRACHEY | 1880-1932 | Critic and | Biographer | lived here
- Thornhaugh Street (23-24 Russell Square), WC1
Brown plaque (London Borough of Camden): T. S. | ELIOT | POET AND | PUBLISHER | WORKED HERE FOR | FABER & FABER | 1925-1965
- 10 Gower Street, WC1
Blue plaque: LADY | OTTOLINE | MORRELL | 1873-1938 | Literary Hostess | and | Patron of the Arts | lived here
- 11 Edwardes Square, W8
Blue plaque (erected 1956 by private subscribers): THIS | WAS THE | LONDON HOME | OF | G. LOWES DICKINSON | Author and Humanist. | HE WAS BORN 1862 | AND DIED | 1932.
- 9 Arlington Park Mansions, Turnham Green Terrace, W4
Blue plaque: E.M. | FORSTER | 1879-1970 | Novelist | lived here
- 182 Ebury Street, SW1
Brown plaque (erected 1993 - see Anon.): HAROLD | NICOLSON | 1886-1968 | VITA SACKVILLE-WEST | 1892-1962 | Writers and Gardeners | lived here
- 32 Elder Street, E1
Blue plaque (erected 1964): MARK | GERTLER | 1891-1939 | Painter | lived here
- 17 East Heath Road, NW3
Blue plaque (erected 1969): KATHERINE | MANSFIELD | 1888-1923 | WRITER, | and her husband | JOHN MIDDLETON | MURRY | 1889-1957 | CRITIC | lived here
A note on blue plaques
References
- Anon, ‘Plaque Tribute to a Most Unconventional Novelist Evening Standard, 29 March 1993.
- Clarke, Jennifer (photographs by Joanna Parkin), In Our GrandmothersFootsteps: A Virago Guide to London, Virago, London, 1984.
- GLC Public Information Branch, Blue Plaques on Houses of Historical Interest, London, n.d. (c. 1976).
- Holroyd, Michael, ‘A Plaque on All Your Houses!, Unreceived Opinions, Penguin Books, harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1976, pp. 42-6.
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Palis, L. M., The Blue Plaques of London, Equation (Thorsons Publishing Group), Wellingborough, Northants, 1989.
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Wilson, Jean Moorcroft, Virginia Woolf: Life and London: A Biography of Place, Cecil Woolf, London, 1987.
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