Virginia Woolf's writing desk at Duke University

[Sarah]

Duke University (Durham, NC) has recently acquired a writing desk owned by Virginia Woolf from 1911-1929. Photo:

https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/201...

This is one of the slope-top desks designed so that Virginia could write while standing (the legs were cut down after it changed ownership). It is decorated with a figure of Cleo holding a trumpet, painted by Quentin Bell. It was first kept at Asheham, then Monks House. VW gave it to Quentin in 1929. It remained at Charleston until sold in a sale to aid Charleston in 1980. Duke acquired the piece in 2015.

The desk can be viewed at the Rubenstein Library if you register as a researcher. (I feel it ought to be displayed as a museum piece but I can whistle for that, can't I?)

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/fi...

[Silvio111]

Sarah wrote: "Duke University (Durham, NC) has recently acquired a writing desk owned by Virginia Woolf from 1911-1929. Photo:

https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/201...

This is one of the slope-top desks d..."

Sarah,
I read this kind of fast and for a moment thought that YOU had acquired the writing desk! I was thinking, "She sounds remarkably calm about this amazing feat!"

Nice desk!