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River Ouse, Sussex
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The Ouse is a 35 miles long river in the English counties of West and East Sussex. It rises near Lower Beeding in West Sussex, and flows eastwards and then southwards to reach the sea at Newhaven. It
View looking north towards Cliffe at high tide from Southease swing bridge
View looking north towards Cliffe at high tide from Southease swing bridge
This straightened tidal stretch of the River Ouse just south of Lewes is called Cliffe Cut. It was made when the Ouse was canalised in the late 1790s.
This straightened tidal stretch of the River Ouse just south of Lewes is called Cliffe Cut. It was made when the Ouse was canalised in the late 1790s. The original course of the river meandered in the foreground.
Southease swing bridge dates from 1880. It no longer opens.
Southease swing bridge dates from 1880. It no longer opens.
The west breakwater prevents shingle from blocking the mouth of the river at Newhaven
The west breakwater prevents shingle from blocking the mouth of the river at Newhaven
Virginia Woolf
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Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.
River Ouse, Sussex
…use for various purposes until the end of the Second World War, but virtually nothing remains of what was the largest water mill in Sussex. The author Virginia Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse on 28 March 1941, near the village of Rodmell; her body was recovered from the river on 18 April. Olivia Laing's book…
Woolf in 1902
Woolf in 1902
Duckworth/Stephen Family c. 1892. Back row: Gerald Duckworth, Virginia, Thoby and Vanessa Stephen, George Duckworth. Front row: Adrian, Julia, Leslie
Duckworth/Stephen Family c. 1892. Back row: Gerald Duckworth, Virginia, Thoby and Vanessa Stephen, George Duckworth. Front row: Adrian, Julia, Leslie Stephen.
Virginia and Leslie Stephen, 1902
Virginia and Leslie Stephen, 1902
Virginia (third from left) with her mother and the Stephen children at their lessons, Talland House, c. 1894
Virginia (third from left) with her mother and the Stephen children at their lessons, Talland House, c. 1894