Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Delve into a legendary literary love affair
'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 death in 1941.
Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing…
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July 19, 2022VITA SACKVILLE-WEST (1892-1962) was a writer and poet born in England to aristocratic parents. In 1913, she married diplomat Harold Nicolson and traveled extensively before settling in 1930 at Sissinghurst Castle, where she designed a world-famous garden. Sackville-West had an affair with Virginia Woolf and was the model for the protagonist of Woolf’s Orlando. She is best known for her novels, including The Edwardians and All Passion Spent.
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf
All Passion Spent
Vita Sackville-WestVIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941) was born in London. A pioneer in the narrative use of stream of consciousness, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915. This was followed by literary criticism and essays, most notably A Room of One’s Own, and other acclaimed novels, including Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando.
The New Dress
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Xochitl Gonzalez; Edited with Notes by Michèle Barrett
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf
Street Haunting
Virginia Woolf; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Foreword by Andrea Lawlor; Introduction and Notes by Sandra M. Gilbert; Edited by Brenda Lyons
Orlando
Virginia Woolf
Orlando
Virginia Woolf; Introduction by Jeanette Winterson
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf; Edited with Notes by Stella McNichol; Foreword by Patricia Lockwood; Introduction by Hermione Lee
Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf
Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf