To the Lighthouse

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The view from the Grade-II listed house across St Ives Bay to Godrevy lighthouse inspired her to write To the Lighthouse among other works, leading local author Patrick Gale to call the plans "a preposterous piece of cultural vandalism".

From BBC

It was Virginia Woolf's childhood view from Talland House in St Ives across the bay to Godrevy which inspired three of her books, including To the Lighthouse.

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In the 1920s and 1930s, the view informed three of her novels - Jacob's Room, The Waves and To the Lighthouse.

From BBC

In To the Lighthouse she described this view: "The great plateful of blue water was before her, the hoary lighthouse, distant, austere, in the midst; and on the right as far as the eye could see, fading and falling, in soft low pleats, the green sand dunes with the wild flowing grasses on them, which always seemed to be running away into some moon country, uninhabited by men."

From BBC

“Well, never mind. Welcome to the Lighthouse Motel, Fern.”

From Literature