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Hogarth House, Richmond

The Woolfs' home from 1915 to 1924, where they bought a hand press for nineteen pounds and started the Hogarth Press on the dining-room table.

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Leonard rented the Georgian house for Virginia's recovery after the breakdown of 1913, and in March 1917 they bought a small printing press and taught themselves to set type as therapy; the first book was their own Two Stories, and within six years the press on the dining-room table had published Katherine Mansfield's Prelude, T. S. Eliot's Poems and The Waste Land, and the first English translations of Freud, before it grew into a proper publisher. Woolf wrote Night and Day and Jacob's Room here and began Mrs Dalloway. The house has kept the name; the plaque and the front are all there is to see, but her statue is a few minutes down the hill by the river.

Where
34 Paradise Road, Richmond, TW9 1SE
Nearest station
Richmond · 4 min walk

A private house; the blue plaque to Leonard and Virginia Woolf is on the front.

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