October Light: October 26, 2015

Next day the light of the October morning was falling in dusty shafts through the uncurtained windows, and the hum of traffic rose from the street. London then was winding itself up again; the factory was astir; the machines were beginning. It was tempting, after all this reading, to look out of the window and see what London was doing on the morning of the 26th of October 1928.

A Room of One's Own (95) 

October 26, 1928 Woolf delivers the second  lecture on "Women and Fiction" at Girton College, Cambridge.