Maire McQueeney's Novel Outings

VIRGINIA WOOLF

Brighton, Lewes, Rodmell, London, The World

'Quite the best tour leader in the area is Maire McQueeney.' Louise Candlish, 'In Britain'

Virginia Woolf was novelist, publisher, polemicist, pamphleteer, essayist, diarist, and correspondant. So Bloomsbury walks and book browsers can happen most anywhere. A few Lupine novel outings are tabulated on this page. All are suitable for group bookings.

MRS. DALLOWAY
When Mrs. Richard Dalloway walks from Pimlico to Mayfair one fine morning in June 1923 to buy flowers for her party she leaves her still disenfranchised daughter at home. Clarissa makes her way through Dean's Yard, past socialist thinkers at The Fabian Society, into Royal Parks still recovering from war, near 'Queen Victoria billowing on her mound', on towards Mulberry's and a Bond Street transformed by the twentieth century.
Extract from The Bloomsbury Traveller by Maire McQueeney

TOURS AVAILABLE FOR PRIVATE GROUP HIRE

BERWICK CHURCH WALK A 4 mile level walk passing Alciston, Tilton and Charleston Farmhouse. We visit Duncan Grant & Vanessa Bell's wall paintings in St. Michael and All Angels Church.
BLOOMSBURY AT HOMEA London walk through Georgian Squares remembering Woolf, Bell, Carrington, Fry, Grant, Keynes, The Omega Workshop, The Hogarth Press and their posterity.
BLOOMSBURY BOOK BROWSER 8-10 titles from my home library by & about Bloomsbury artists and writers plus ephemera from my Bloomsbury collection.
FAMOUS MEN AND FAIR WOMENA Kensington walk via Little Holland House to 22 Hyde Park Gate remembering Julia Margaret Cameron, G.F. Watts, Victorian Interiors, Thackery, Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf.
GARSINGTON Lady Ottoline Morrell and guests. A Crome Yellow walk ending at Garsington Manor Garden in Oxfordshire on the local NGS day.
MRS. DALLOWAY'S WALK Based on the novel Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolfıs stream of conciousness ³love letter to London² published in 1925 by the Hogarth Press.
SOUTHEASE TO LEWESA 5 mile linear walk from Southease Halt to Lewes passing Monkıs House and the site of Asham House.
VIRGINIA WOOLF BOOK BROWSER 8-10 titles from my home library by & about Virginia Woolf plus ephemera from my Bloomsbury colllection.
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LEWES A town walk in praise of famous women; Carrington, Vita, Vanessa Bell, Ethyl Smythe, Katherine Mansfield and Mrs. Woolf.
VIRGINIA WOOLF'S RODMELL1 mile circular village walk
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST WALK A 5 mile circular walk to Knole Park at Sevenoaks in Kent looking at the lives, loves and literature of Vita Sackville-West: The Edwardians, Knole & The Sackvilles, and Virginia Woolf's Orlando

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