Bust

Virginia Woolf bust

Erection date: 26/6/2004

Inscription

{Carved in the plinth immediately under the bust:}
Virginia Woolf 1882 - 1941

{On a steel plate screwed to the plinth lower down:}
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.

Bronze copy of the bust of Woolf sculpted by Stephen Tomlin in 1931, on a five-foot-high plinth of Portland stone designed by Stephen Barkway. This is a copy of the bust in the National Portrait Gallery which is apparently the only 3-D representation of Woolf taken from life.

Site: Virginia Woolf bust (1 memorial)

WC1, Tavistock Square Gardens

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52 Tavistock Square

Lived in by Leonard and Virginia Woolf 1924-39. Our picture source also has s...

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Virginia Woolf

Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself i...

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Stephen Tomlin

Sculptor and artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Youngest son of the...

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