The Letters of Vita Sackville West to Virginia Woolf - Hardcover

Leaska, Mitchell A; De Salvo, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573441368 ISBN 13: 9781573441360

Publisher: Cleis Press, 2001

Synopsis

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to diplomat Harold Nicolson, and Virginia Woolf began an intense and passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf s death in 1941. In their correspondence, the women leave no aspect of their lives untouched: they record daily dramas, bits of gossip, the strains and pleasures of writing, and their mutual joy in each other s company. This edition includes over 500 letters spanning 20 years; features 25 photographs, eight new to this edition; and has a new introduction and bibliography."

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Review:

"Rarely can a collection of correspondence have cast into more dramatic relief two personalities more individual or more complex; and rarely can an enterprise of the heart have been carried out so near the verge of archetypal feeling." - Mitchell A. Leaska, from his introduction "Among the greatest pleasures provided by these two decades of well-edited letters is the chance to recall every love affair's keenest intoxication - the thrill of hearing the thing you want insisting that you take it." - New York Times Book Review"

About the Author:

Louise DeSalvo is Professor of English at Hunter College and is the author of 11 books, including the award-winning Veritgo. She lives in New Jersey. Mitchell A. Leaska has written many books on Woolf and has edited her early journals, which was named a New York Times notable book.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cleis Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1573441368
• ISBN 13: 9781573441360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480