Lara Feigel

How country living changed the lives of three remarkable women writers

Harriet Baker describes how Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann found new forms of peace and creativity away from the stifling capital

Rosamond Lehmann at her house in Aldworth, Berkshire. Photograph from Laurie Lee’s album. [© The Literary Estate of Laurie Lee]
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  • Rural Hours: The Country Lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

    Harriet Baker

    Allen Lane, pp. 256, £25

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