Charleston and Monk's House

Two houses a few miles apart on the Sussex Downs hold the shared story of two sisters. Charleston, the farmhouse Vanessa Bell filled with painted doors and decorated furniture, and Monk's House in Rodmell, where Virginia Woolf lived and wrote, are both preserved today as intimate house museums. Nuala Hancock's study works from the places themselves, reading rooms and objects for what they reveal about the sisters' lives together.

A thoughtful choice for anyone drawn to Bloomsbury, to the lives of artists and writers, or to the question of how a home keeps its people.