The daughter of a celebrated Pre-Raphaelite artist’s model, Julia Prinsep Jackson, and the author, critic, biographer and historian Leslie Stephen, Woolf with her family spent many childhood summers in St. Ives where her parents owned Talland House (pictured right). Godrevy Light (below) was the inspiration for her magnificent novel ‘To The Lighthouse’ (1927) about her relationship with her mother.

Affected by depression from a young age, Cornwall was often Woolf’s refuge and she would undertake spontaneous, unplanned trips staying in St. Ives, Zennor and Lelant.