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Several members of the Bloomsbury Group attained notoriety in 1910 with the [[Dreadnought hoax|''Dreadnought'' hoax]], in which they posed as a royal [[Ethiopian Empire|Abyssinian]] entourage (with Virginia as "Prince Mendax") and received a tour of the [[HMS Dreadnought (1906)|HMS Dreadnought]] by Virginia's cousin [[William Wordsworth Fisher|Commander Fisher]], who was not aware of the joke. [[Horace de Vere Cole]], who had been one of the masterminds of the hoax along with Adrian, later leaked the story to the press and informed the Foreign Office, leading to general outrage from the establishment.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=278-283}}
 
=== SussexAsham House (1911–19411911–1919) ===
[[File:VStephenKCox.jpg|thumb|upright|Virginia Stephen (L) with [[Katherine Laird Cox|Katherine Cox]], Asham 1912|alt=Virginia Stephen with Katherine Cox at Asham in 1912]]
 
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In September 1911 she and Leonard Woolf found Asham House{{efn|Sometimes spelled "Asheham" or "Ascham".{{sfn|Woolf|1964|p=56}}}} nearby, and Virginia and Vanessa took a joint lease on it.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=311}} Located at the end of a tree-lined road, the house was in a Regency-Gothic style, "flat, pale, serene, yellow-washed", remote, without electricity or water and allegedly haunted.{{sfn|Eagle|Carnell|1981|pp=9-10}}{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=311-312}} The sisters had two housewarming parties in January 1912.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=311}}
 
It was at Asham that the Woolfs spent their wedding night later that year.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=312}} At Asham, sheVirginia recorded the events of the weekends and holidays theyshe spent there in her ''Asham Diary'', part of which was later published as ''A Writer's Diary'' in 1953. In terms of creative writing, ''[[The Voyage Out]]'' was completed there, and much of ''[[Night and Day (Woolf novel)|Night and Day]]''.{{sfn|Asham|2018}} The house itself inspired the short story "A Haunted House", published in ''[[A Haunted House and Other Short Stories]]''.{{sfn|Woolf|1964|p=57}} Asham provided Woolf with much-needed relief from the pace of London life, and was where she found a happiness that she expressed in her diary on 5 May 1919: "Oh, but how happy we've been at Asheham! It was a most melodious time. Everything went so freely; – but I can't analyse all the sources of my joy".{{sfn|Asham|2018}}
 
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While at Asham, in 1916 Leonard and Virginia found a farmhouse to let about four miles away, which they thought would be ideal for her sister. Eventually, Vanessa came down to inspect it, and took possession in October of that year, as a summer home for her family. The [[Charleston Farmhouse]] was to become the summer gathering place for the Bloomsbury Group.{{sfn|Bell|1972|loc=Vol II: 1915–1918}}{{page needed|date=June 2024}}
 
The Woolfs spent parts of the period of the [[First World War]] in Asham, but were obliged by the owner to leave in 1919.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=346,416}} "In despair" they purchased the Round House in Lewes, a converted windmill, for £300. No sooner had they bought the Round House, than [[Monk's House]] in nearby [[Rodmell]] came up for auction, a [[weatherboarded]] house with oak-beamed rooms, said to date from the 15th or 16th century.{{sfn|Woolf|1964|p=61}} The Woolfs sold the Round House and purchased Monk's House for £700.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=67}}▼
 
Monk's House also lacked running water, but came with an acre of garden, and had a view across the Ouse towards the hills of the [[South Downs]]. Leonard Woolf describes this view as being unchanged since the days of [[Chaucer]].{{sfn|Eagle|Carnell|1981|p=228}} From 1940, it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed. Vanessa had made Charleston her permanent home in 1936.{{sfn|Bell|1972|loc=Vol. II: 1915–1918}}{{page needed|date=June 2024}} It was at Monk's House that Virginia completed ''[[Between the Acts]]'' in early 1941, which was followed by her final breakdown and suicide in the nearby River Ouse on 28 March.{{sfn|Todd|1999|p=13}}
 
=== Marriage and war (1912–1920) ===
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Virginia Woolf had completed a penultimate draft of her first novel ''[[The Voyage Out]]'' before her wedding, but undertook large-scale alterations to the manuscript between December 1912 and March 1913. The work was subsequently accepted by her half-brother Gerald Duckworth's publishing house, and she found the process of reading and correcting the proofs extremely emotionally difficult.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=321-322}} This led to one of several breakdowns over the subsequent two years; Woolf attempted suicide on 9 September 1913 with an overdose of [[Veronal]], being saved with the help of Maynard Keynes' surgeon brother [[Geoffrey Keynes]] who drove Leonard to [[St Bartholomew's Hospital]] to fetch a stomach pump.{{sfn|Harris|2011|pp=52,54}} Woolf's illness led to Duckworth delaying the publication of ''The Voyage Out'' until 26 March 1915.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=322}}
 
In the autumn of 1914 the couple moved to a house on [[Richmond Green]],{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=325}} and in late March 1915 they moved to Hogarth House, also in [[Richmond, London|Richmond]], after which they named [[Hogarth Press|their publishing house]] in 1917.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=346-347, 358}} The decision to move to London's suburbs was made for the sake of Woolf's health, and the couple would spend the [[First World War]] between Richmond and Asham.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=346}} Many of Woolf's circle of friends were against the war, and Woolf herself opposed it from a standpoint of pacifism and anti-censorship.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=339-341,345}} Leonard was exempted from the [[Military Service Act 1916|introduction of conscription in 1916]] on medical grounds.{{sfn|Todd|1999|p=13}} The Woolfs employed two servants at the recommendation of [[Roger Fry]] in 1916; Lottie Hope worked for a number of other Bloomsbury Group members, and [[Nellie Boxall]] would stay with them until 1934.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|pp=349-350}}
 
▲The Woolfs spent parts of the period of the [[First World War]] in Asham, but were obliged by the owner to leave in 1919.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=346,416}} "In despair" they purchased the Round House in Lewes, a converted windmill, for £300. No sooner had they bought the Round House, than [[Monk's House]] in nearby [[Rodmell]] came up for auction, a [[weatherboarded]] house with oak-beamed rooms, said to date from the 15th or 16th century.{{sfn|Woolf|1964|p=61}} The Woolfs sold the Round House and purchased Monk's House for £700.{{sfn|Lee|1997a|p=67}} Monk's House also lacked running water, but came with an acre of garden, and had a view across the Ouse towards the hills of the [[South Downs]]. Leonard Woolf describes this view as being unchanged since the days of [[Chaucer]].{{sfn|Eagle|Carnell|1981|p=228}} The Woolfs would retain Monk's House until the end of Virginia's life; it became their permanent home after their London home was bombed, and it was where she completed ''[[Between the Acts]]'' in early 1941, which was followed by her final breakdown and suicide in the nearby River Ouse on 28 March.{{sfn|Todd|1999|p=13}}
 
=== Hogarth Press (1917–1938) ===
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