'Such Friends': Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

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London audio tour: 'Such Friends': Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group

This is a 0.8mi walking tour

It takes an average of 25 mins to complete.

London

The United Kingdom

$4.99

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About the Tour

Writer Virginia Stephen Woolf and her ‘Such Friends’ lived in the Bloomsbury area of London in the early 20th century, when they were just starting their careers, and became known as the ‘Bloomsbury group.’ We’ll see the houses where they ‘lived in squares and loved in triangles,’ from 1904 to 1915, walking the same streets that they did when they strolled from one Thursday evening salon to another. In the drawing rooms of middle class London, they had whisky, buns and cocoa, and, as Virginia remembered later, ‘’Talking, talking, talking… as if everything could be talked…’

Tour Producer

Kathleen Dixon Donnelly

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Kathleen Dixon Donnelly has been involved in teaching and the creative process for over 40 years. Her dissertation for her Ph.D. in Communications from Dublin City University, “Such Friends,” was on the creative development of writers in early 20th century salons, including the Irish Literary Renaissance, the Bloomsbury group, the Americans in Paris in the 1920s, and the Algonquin Round Table.
Kathleen is the author of the blog "Such Friends": 100 Years Ago [www.suchfriends.wordpress.com] and the paperback series "Such Friends": The Literary 1920s, Volumes I through V covering 1920 to 1924 are available on Amazon in print or e-book formats.

Her Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group in the Literary 1920s will be published by Pen and Sword Books in January 2026 and is available for pre-order on Amazon.

Kathleen’s first self-published book, Manager as Muse: Maxwell Perkins’ Work with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe, is based on her thesis for her MBA from Duquesne University in her hometown of Pittsburgh, PA, and is available on Amazon in print or e-book formats.

Kathleen has retired from Birmingham City University and lives with her husband Tony Dixon and their two cats, Gertrude Stein and Robert Benchley, in Pittsburgh, PA,. You can contact her at [email protected].

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Location 1

Entrance to Gordon Square

Welcome to Bloomsbury! I’m Dr. Kathleen Dixon Donnelly and I’ll be your guide for this walk. You should be standing at the entrance to Gordon Square, facing the garden, with the small cafe on your right. Before we get going, I'll tell you a bit about myself, and today's walk.
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Major Landmarks

Fitzroy Square London

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Start location
Gordon Sq, London WC1H 0PQ, UK
Total distance

1km
Final location
33 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6EX, UK
Distance back to start location

697.01m

Directions to Starting Point

You can start your Bloomsbury day with high tea at the Morton Hotel, near the Russell Square Tube Station. From there it is an easy stroll to our starting point, the entrance to Gordon Square with the snack shop. I’ll meet you there…

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Tips

Places to stop along the way

The snack shop at the entrance to Gordon Square is a good place to have an ‘al fresco’ lunch if the weather is nice.
The Northumberland Arms pub, at Grafton Way and Tottenham Court Road, is a great spot to stop for a pint.
The Indian YMCA has a low cost cafeteria with nice lunches, open to the public.

Best time of day

This walk is best done during the day time, hopefully with lovely sunshine and no rain.

Precautions

As always, be careful crossing the streets—even at pedestrian crossings—and remember which side the cars drive on!

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