![]() ![]() ![]() 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. by Sackville-West, Vita/ Woolf, Virginia/ Bechdel, Alison (INT). 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. Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-west : Love Letters (Vintage Classics). 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. Gemma Arterton plays Vita Sackville-West, the woman who had a passionate affair with Woolf and inspired her experimental novel Orlando in 1928, in doing so testing to near-destruction her own. Sackville-West, V., Woolf, Virginia, Desalvo, Louise, Leaska, Mitchell Alexander. 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 composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. At 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. ‘I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. ![]()
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