Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Virginia Woolf (English) Paperback Book

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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.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.

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The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries.'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...'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 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. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's suicide 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. 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.WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.

Author Biography

Vita Sackville-West (Author)Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962) was born at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively. They had an unconventional marriage, and troughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men and women. She wrote novels, non-fiction, and poetry, including The Land (1926), which won the Hawthorden Prize.Virginia Woolf (Author)Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.Alison Bechdel (Introducer)Alison Bechdel is the author of two internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs, Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?- A Comic Drama. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre'. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur 'Genius' Award.http-//dykestowatchoutfor.com/

Review

"A deliciously tactile volume of love letters; I've been carrying them around the house, dipping in and out, and finding new things each time. As Vita said of Mrs Dalloway, they bewilder, illuminate and reveal" - Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own -- Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own

Review Text

"A deliciously tactile volume of love letters; I've been carrying them around the house, dipping in and out, and finding new things each time. As Vita said of Mrs Dalloway , they bewilder, illuminate and reveal" - Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own

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"A deliciously tactile volume of love letters; I've been carrying them around the house, dipping in and out, and finding new things each time. As Vita said of Mrs Dalloway , they bewilder, illuminate and reveal" - Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own

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The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries.

Details ISBN1784876720 Author Alison Bechdel Series Vintage Classics Language English Year 2021 ISBN-10 1784876720 ISBN-13 9781784876722 Format Paperback Short Title Love Letters Subtitle Vita and Virginia Pages 304 Publisher Vintage Publishing Publication Date 2021-02-04 UK Release Date 2021-02-04 Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2021-02-04 NZ Release Date 2021-02-04 Birth 1954 Affiliation G.R.E.Q.A.M. Position Associate Professor of Operations Management Qualifications Ph.D. Imprint Vintage Classics Alternative 9781473582408 DEWEY 823.91209 Audience General We've got this

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