It is obviously a detriment in her life because it causes everything that has to do with dress to make her nervous. Woolf hints that this might have something to do with her 'looking glass shame.' (9) She also suggest it might have something to do with her puritan inheritance. She does not reveal exactly how old she was at the time, she just writes that she was very small. First when her brother, Gerarld Duckworth, molested her. It is the place associated with two of her most negative early memories. Virginia may feel so connected to the house because it was purchased just before she was born. Nevertheless, it made up a significant part of her memoir. Talland House is one of the places she spends a lot of time, actually she only spent a month and a half out of the year there.
She describes the people and places that make up her young life. A Sketch of the Past illuminated the early years of Virginia Woolf.