ESSAY

A Visit to Virginia Woolf

And her sister, Vanessa Bell

Photo by Lina Herold on Unsplash

Our train pulls into Victoria Station. A guard on the platform wheels a ramp to the door. I scan the carriage and there, right enough, is a man in a wheelchair.

‘How impressive is that?’ I say to my sister as we walk to the ticket barrier. ‘That guard was in the right place at the right time, with the right ramp…