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Keynes's brother Geoffrey also lived here. The house was occupied by at least some of the Bloomsburies and Keyneses, 1911-15. Grant and Keynes occupied the ground floor. Virginia's rooms were on the second floor. Leonard Woolf occupied the smaller, less elegant rooms on the third floor. We guess the basement was used by servants, primarily Sophie Farrell, their cook, and the first floor for entertaining, of which they did a lot.

Virginia and Leonard spent most of 1912 becoming engaged (she was reluctant) finally marrying in August. But her depression persisted and in September 1913 she took an overdose of veronal here and her life was saved by Geoffrey, a qualified surgeon, and a stomach pump.

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