Like Woolf’s tenure at Asheham, Warner’s first years in Dorset have often been glanced over, her story seeming to pick up with her communist politics in 1935.

Every so often a book comes along and changes the way you see a classic of literature. The Diary of Virginia Woolf, published between 1977 and 1984, came out decades after Woolf’s death in 1941 ...

When she does write again, two years later, the diary has shape-shifted. Written from their country home in Asheham, Sussex, it is now a rural record of weather and landscape. The entries are shorter, ...

Baker’s narrative of Woolf’s rural hours moves from one world war to the next, from her first novel The Voyage Out (1915) to Between the Acts, with its pageant of village life, which was published in ...

Virginia Woolf lived long periods of her life in Sussex. She and her husband Leonard Woolf occupied two houses in Sussex: first, Asheham House near Beggingham, which was Woolf’s favourite and ...

Woolf kept her Asheham diary, ... Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann by Harriet Baker Allen Lane £25, 384 pages.

Woolf was extremely fond of them; ... Virginia grew up in the archetypal well-off Victorian household with a sizable staff, ... A "slopper" was taken on at Asheham, Virginia's first marital home, ...

Rural Hours is about periods of countryside domesticity in the lives of three novelists, Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), Warner (1893–1978) and Rosamond Lehmann (1901–90). Those dates are not to be found ...

Bell’s landscapes – such as this painting of Asheham House, where Virginia and Leonard Woolf spent weekends from 1912 to 1919 – often depict the Sussex Downs, where she spent so much of her ...