OL1347349W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.90 Pages 410 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0688062717 This item: Love Letters: Vita and Virginia (Vintage Classics) by Vita Sackville-West Paperback 11.95 Orlando (Vintage Classics Woolf Series): Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf Paperback 6.99 Vita & Virginia: The lives and love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West by Sarah Gristwood Hardcover 14. Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Cleis Press ed. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:15:06 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA172901 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City San Francisco, Calif. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched: daily dramas, bits of gossip, the strains and pleasures of writing.
Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write Orlando, and discover an extraordinary relationship which - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear the women’s constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia’s suicide in 1941.
Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn’t think much of Vita’s conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs… It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. I just miss you…’Īt a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat, and sapphist Vita Sackville-West. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. ‘I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries.
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