Vita Sackville-West Love Letters: Vita & Virginia Paperback Book Multicolor

Delve into a legendary literary love affairI 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 SackvilleWest. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didnt think much of Vitas 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 Virginias death in 1941.Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these womens constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. 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. Vita Sackville-West Love Letters: Vita & Virginia Paperback Book