Thursday, March 10, 2016

A Thing That Wants Virginia

William Strang, Lady with a Red Hat (A portrait of Vita Sackville-West),
1918, oil on canvas.

Vita Sackville-West, born on this day in 1892, and Virginia Woolf exchanged the letters below in January 1926. The two began an affair in the midtwenties that inspired Woolf’s novel Orlando.These letters came after their first separation; their affair ended in 1929. Original spelling and punctuation have been retained. Their correspondence is collected in The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf.


More here

No comments: