WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. 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. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. I just miss you.'Īt a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. I have reviewed the original publication of their letters to each other, The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf and made it clear I had a few issues with the introduction by Mitchell A. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. Finally A collection of their letters with an introduction written by a lesbian When I found out this was being published, I almost cried. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. Delve into a legendary literary love affair
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