![]() ![]() ![]() With a new introduction from Alison Bechdel, creator of Fun Home and Dykes to Watch Out For. 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. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched: daily dramas, bits of gossip, the strains and pleasures of writing. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941. After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf’s death in 1941. In April 1929, soon after their affair had ended, Virginia Woolf wrote to Vita Sackville-West: I told Nessa Woolfs sister, Vanessa Bell the story of. 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 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. ![]()
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