Love Letters Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968

Leonard Woolf, Trekkie Ritchie Parsons

ISBN 10: 0701169273 / ISBN 13: 9780701169275

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2001

About this Item

After Virginia Woolf's death, Leonard Woolf became involved with an artist and book designer, Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, with whom he held correspondence though he lived next door to her some of the time, 312 pages with index. Binding is dark violet with silver lettering at the spine under the pale yellow dust jacket. 6-1/4" x 9-1/2."

Good condition. There is a 1/2" dent that is a tear in the bottom binding. Front binding corners bumped. Tear at bottom front edge of dj. Smudging at dj back.

Seller Inventory # 008641

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Letters Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701169273
• ISBN 13: 9780701169275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

It was the middle of the Second World War, and Trekkie, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons, who later became Leonard's colleague. Leonard was 61, Trekkie 39. He wanted her to get a divorce and marry him but instead she persuaded him to move next door in London and spent the weekends with him at Monks House in Rodmell. When Ian came back from the war, the Parsons moved into the flat above Leonard's, and also bought a house near his in Sussex. Trekkie was a feisty, principled, Scottish feminist - she had never wanted a husband and now, it seemed, she had two at once. She spent the weekends with Ian and the week with Leonard- she took holidays with them separately, acted as hostess for them both, and told no-one about the way they lived. The arrangement worked smoothly for the next twenty-five years - an inventive and honest solution for a woman who loved two men in different ways at the same time.When Trekkie and Leonard were not together they talked by post - a letter scribbled while she cooked the dinner could reach him before breakfast the next morning. Apart from a handful of letters, no one has read their correspondence, which Trekkie sea

About the Author

Judith Adamson is Professor of English at Dawson College, Montreal, and the author of several books, including The Dangerous Edge, a political biography of Graham Greene. She selected and introduced the essays in Greene’s much acclaimed last book, Reflections.