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"On the outskirts of Firle, this farmhouse was leased by Vanessa Bell and became a gathering place: Duncan Grant moved in and planted vegetables; Clive Bell shot game birds and kept a stash of Charbonnel chocolates in the study; John Maynard Keynes wrote in the garden; Lytton Strachey reclined here during bouts of ill health; and TS Eliot turned up to eat grouse." - Jo Rodgers