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Virginia Woolf’s Sussex, by writer Jo Rodgers

VIRGINIA WOOLF worked on most of her major novels, including my favourite, , in a writing hut beneath a chestnut tree at the bottom of her garden in Rodmell, East Sussex. A born Londoner, she lived on and off in Sussex throughout her adult life and her fellow artists and thinkers in the Bloomsbury Group—most significantly, her sister, Vanessa Bell—trailed south after her. Seminal books were written, pots thrown, gardens laid, portraits painted and a

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