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 Orlando, and discover an extraordinary relationship which - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. 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. 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. The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries.Īt a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat, and sapphist Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't t. 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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