Person    | Female  Born 25/1/1882  Died 28/3/1941

Virginia Woolf

Born as Adeline Virginia Stephen in Hyde Park Gate, London. Drowned herself in the River Ouse Rodmell, Sussex by filling pockets with stones.

Virginia and Leonard Woolf lived at no. 52 Tavistock Square (on the south side but destroyed during the Second World War) from 1924 to 1939. During this period Woolf wrote some of her most famous works, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando and The Waves.

Dr Jean Moorcroft, Camden New Journal, 31.3.2011, reminds us that “Apart from a period of what she regarded as “exile” in Richmond, the whole of Woolf's writing life was spent in one or other of Camden’s garden squares – Gordon Square, Fitzroy Square, Brunswick Square, Tavistock Square and, briefly, Mecklenburgh Square.”

While their home in Tavistock Square had the builders in the Woolfs lived at 37 Mecklenburgh Square, October 1939 - August 1940, when a bomb forced them out. The site is now occupied by Goodenough House, built 1957.

The excellent Virginia Woolf Society has a page listing Woolf's London addresses, with dates.

Comments are provided by Facebook, please ensure you are signed in here to see them

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Virginia Woolf

Commemorated ati

Bloomsbury Group - Brunswick Square

Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least...

Read More

Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square

Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century the...

Read More

Fitzrovia local mural

Cynthia Williams was added in 2000.

Read More

Leonard and Virginia Woolf

In this house Leonard and Virginia Woolf lived, 1915 - 1924, and founded the ...

Read More

Muses - Clio

Virginia Woolf as Clio the muse of history, holding a quill pen.

Read More

Show all 9

Other Subjects

Alexander Herzen

Alexander Herzen

“Father of Russian socialism”.    Born Moscow into a land-owning family.   Had a number of run-ins with the authorities and emigrated for good in 1847.  Baron Rothschild assisted him in keeping his...

Person, Literature, Politics & Administration, France, Russia

1 memorial
James Hadley Chase

James Hadley Chase

Thriller writer. Born at the site of the plaque as René Lodge Brabazon Raymond. Under various pseudonyms, he wrote ninety novels, fifty of which were made into films. Died in Corseaux-sur-Vevey, Sw...

Person, Literature, Switzerland

1 memorial
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer. Born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, a small village in Missouri; it was small then and is now non-existent.  Wrote Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Adventures of Tom Sawyer...

Person, Humour, Literature, Seriously Famous, USA

2 memorials
Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair

Novel by William Makepeace Thackeray.

Fiction, Literature

2 memorials
John Wyndham

John Wyndham

Author. Born John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, in Dorridge near Knowle, Warwickshire. Most of his novels are about terrestrial apocalypses (he disliked the term science-fiction). The best kn...

Person, Literature

1 memorial

Previously viewed

Lockerbie bombing

Lockerbie bombing

Pan Am 103 flying Heathrow to New York's JFK was destroyed by a bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. 270 were killed: 243 passengers, 16 crew, 11 on the ground.

Event, Terrorism, Tragedy, Scotland

18 memorials
de Gaulle

de Gaulle

SW1, Carlton Gardens, 4

In 1940, after briefly being in Mayfair and Victoria, de Gaulle moved here with his French National Committee. On 18 June that year he ma...

3 subjects commemorated
William Johnson

William Johnson

Role on the lost expedition: Petty officer on SS Terror. See John Franklin.

Person, Exploring, Tragedy

1 memorial
Kate Adie

Kate Adie

Born Northumberland.  Journalist and broadcaster for the BBC, known for her work as a war correspondent.

Person, Journalism / Publishing, TV & Radio

1 memorial