Sir Leslie Stephen, Lady Albutt, Julia Duckworth Stephen, Gerald Duckworth, Sir Clifford Albutt,&nbsp;Vanessa, Virginia&nbsp;and Adrian Stephen sitting outdoors
 St. Ives, 1892
&amp;#8220;The family spent their summers in Cornwall, another place of respite, a pastoral retreat from the imprisonment of London. Talland House is often set in convenient contrast to the Gothic gloom of 22 Hyde Park Gate. St Ives is depicted as a place of colour, exhilaration and freedom. To the Lighthouse&nbsp;can be read as an elegy for the time spent there with the family. Virginia recalls her earliest memory: she is lying in the nursery, listening to the waves breaking on the beach, hearing the wind rhythmically suck the sunshine-yellow blind in and out of the room, its little acorn-shaped pull tugging across the floor. The images are of light, water and moving air. Virginia remembers &amp;#8216;the purest ecstasy I can conceive.&amp;#8217;&amp;#8221;
- Gill Lowe in Hyde Park Gate News