Virginia Woolf is one of Britain’s most celebrated writers. In March 1915, the Woolfs moved to Hogarth House on Paradise Road, a few minutes from Richmond High Street. They occupied half of the double brick Georgian house until 1924. During German air raids Virginia slept in the basement which became the press room after they founded their publishing venture, Hogarth Press in 1917. Here Virginia set the type for T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land in 1923. From the back windows of the house she could see Kew Gardens, one of her favourite walking spots and the setting for her short story of the same name.
