Vita & Virginia / [Sarah Gristwood].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gristwood, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941.

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962.

English literature--Women authors--20th century--Biography.

English literature.

English literature--Women authors.

Relations with women.

Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962--Relations with women.

Sackville-West, V.

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941--Relations with women.

Woolf, Virginia.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Other Title:

Vita and Virginia

Place of Publication:

London : National Trust Books, 2018.

Summary:

A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism - and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia's death in 1941. The hero of Virginia's novel Orlando was modeled on Vita and the book has been described as 'one of the longest and most charming love letters in history'. That's on top of the more than 500 letters they wrote to each other. Vita & Virginia is the extraordinary account of the work, friendship and love affair of two prolific novelists, who came to redefine conventions of femininity, sexuality, art and politics for the modern world. The cultural legacies of these formidable women, enduring icons of sexual equality and female emancipation, proliferate around us today - in fashion and television, film and literature. In this scrupulously researched examination of the pair's long friendship, the National Trust draws on their poetry and treasured correspondence to tell the story of this thoroughly modern affair. Both novelists have become closely associated with the National Trust. Vita is most famous today as the co-creator of Sissinghurst, one of the most influential and visited gardens in the world, while Monk's House, Virginia's retreat and inspiration, was a celebrated haunt of the Bloomsbury Group, that influential set of artists, thinkers and writers who lived in squares and loved in triangles.

Contents:

Part I 1882-1922 Moments of Being p. 12

Chapter 1 Vita, 1892-1913 p. 14

Chapter 2 Virginia, 1882-1912 p. 30

Chapter 3 Two marriages, 1913-1921 p. 54

Monk's house, Charleston And Virginia Woolf's London p. 70

Part II 1922-1930 Orlando p. 78

Chapter 4 1922-5 p. 80

Chapter 5 1926-30 p. 100

Sissinghurst p. 114

Part III All Passion Spent p. 124

Chapter 6 1931-8 p. 126

Chapter 7 1939-43 p. 140

Chapter 8 1943-62 p. 154.

Notes:

"The lives and love of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-172) and index.

ISBN:

9781911358381

1911358383

OCLC:

1043015222

Publisher Number:

99978345524