In 1915 the novelist Virginia Woolf and her husband, Leonard, did what many young couples do and moved from the center of London to a large house in the suburbs. They chose Hogarth House, a 1750 villa that had been subdivided into two residences.
The Woolfs, who married in 1912, were to spend almost a decade of their unconventional but enduring union in their half of Hogarth House, located in desirable, leafy Richmond, a neighborhood 9 miles southwest of the center of London.
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