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Virginia Woolf

Kensington, Middlesed 1882 - River Ouse, near Lewes, Sussex 1941
English writer
(Wikipedia)

Stephen Tomlin
1931 (2004)

Description

Bronze bust, replica of the bust created in 1931.

Inscription(s)

VIRGINIA WOOLF
1882-1941

Information Sign

Virginia Woolf
lived in a house formerly on the south side of
Tavistock Square from 1924 to 1939 where most of her
greatest novels were written and published

'Then one day walking round Tavistock Square I made up,
as I sometimes make up my books, To the Lighthouse; in
a great apparently involuntary, rush.'

This memorial was erected by the
Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
26 June 2004

Sculptor

Stephen Tomlin (1901-1937), British sculptor.

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, List of public art in Camden.
Bob Speel, London sculpture.
Andrew Kershman, London's Monuments (London: Metro Publ., 2013), p. 242.
Peter Matthews, London's Statues and Monuments (Botley: Shire, 2012), p. 181.

Locatie (N 51°31'27" - W 0°7'44") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: gblo116; Photograph: 7 August 2014
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