ODDITIES of SUSSEX
Virginia Woolf Memorial - Monk's House
After the novelist Virginia Woolf took her life in 1941, drowning in the
River Ouse, her ashes were scattered under an elm just beyond the garden
of Monks House.
The plaque which her husband, Leonard, raised to her memory is now inside
the garden. It has a quotation from her novel 'The Waves':
"Death is the enemy. Against you
I will fling myself unvanquished
and unyielding - O Death!"
The waves broke on the shore.
Monks House is opened
by the National Trust, twice a week during the summer months only.
Access
In the garden of Monks House (National Trust), Signposted off the Lewes-Newhaven
road.
