One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
Viginia Woolfe (1882-1941)
'The corn brims the fields; but no one is there to cut it; the churches hold up broad gray fingers all over the landscape, but no one, save perhaps the dead at their feet, attend to their commands; the windmills sail round & round, but no one trims their sails; it is very characteristic that the only sign of life in the land should be that produced by the wind of Heaven.'
It would surprise many to find Bloomsbury writer and feminist icon Virginia Woolf resident in the 'lovely old country' of Norfolk. Nevertheless, Virginia Stephen, as she was then, spent the summer of 1906 exploring the fenland around Blo' Norton Hall, 'making out beautiful stories every step of the way'. One of these is 'The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn', a short story very much inspired by the 'strange, grey green, undulating, dreaming, philosophising & remembering land' she found here on the Norfolk/Suffolk border.
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