Love Letters Vita And Virginia

Author : Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473582408

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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf Pdf

Delve into a legendary literary love affair 'I 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 Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's 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 Virginia's death in 1941. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's 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.

Author : Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781784876722

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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf Pdf

Delve into a legendary literary love affair 'I 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 Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's 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 Virginia's death in 1941. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's 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.

Author : Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska
Publisher : Cleis Press Inc
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1573441961

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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska Pdf

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings of both of these literary icons.

Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911358657

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Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood Pdf

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.

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032305859

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Violet to Vita by Violet Trefusis Pdf

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226583570

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Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

Author : David H. Lowenherz
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Love-letters
ISBN : 0517223333

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The 50 Greatest Love Letters of All Time by David H. Lowenherz Pdf

If a picture speaks a thousand words, a love letter speaks a thousand more . . . Even in this age of e-mail, faxes, and instant messaging, nothing has ever replaced the power of a love letter. Much the way light displays every color when passed through a prism, love letters express the spectrum of our emotions, offering a colorful glimpse into the soul of the writer, and of the writer's beloved. For passionate readers and lovers of words, a letter is irresistible. Internationally renowned collector David Lowenherz sifted through hundreds and hundreds of historical and contemporary epistles and selected the most ardent, witty, whimsical, sexy, clever, and touching letters for this inspiring collection. Unlike interviews or biographies, these letters give us marvelous insight into the lives of some of history's most famous lovers and provide intimate glimpses into the hearts of some whose fervent or amusing expressions of devotion will come as a great surprise. Zelda Fitzgerald to Scott Fitzgerald Michelangelo Buonarroti to Vittoria Colonna Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart toConstanze Mozart Harry Truman to Bess Wallace Khalil Gibran to Mary Haskell Benjamin Franklin to Madame Brillon Horatio Nelson to Emma Hamilton George Bush to Barbara Pierce Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn Elizabeth Barrett Browning to George Barrett Jack London to Anna Strunsky Marc Chagall to Bella Chagall Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh Jack Kerouac to Sebastian Sampas Alfred Dreyfus to Lucie Dreyfus Marjorie Fossa to Elvis Presley Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West Ludwig van Beethoven to the "Immortal Beloved" Emma Goldman to Ben Reitman Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera Dylan Thomas to Caitlin Thomas Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer Napoleon Bonaparte to Josephine Bonaparte Abigail Smith to John Adams John Ruskin to Euphemia Ruskin George Sand to Gustave Flaubert Simone de Beauvoir to Nelson Algren Anais Nin to Henry Miller Voltaire to Marie Louise Denis James Thurber to Eva Prout George Bernard Shaw to Stella Campbell Sarah Bernhardt to Jean Richepin Marcel Proust to Daniel Halevy Frank Lloyd Wright to Maude Miriam Noel Anne Sexton to Philip Legler Elizabeth I to Thomas Seymour Oscar Wilde to Constance Lloyd Katherine Mansfield to John Middleton Maury Charles Parnell to Katherine O'Shea Lewis Carroll to Clara Cunnyngham

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452170046

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A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

“An extraordinary story . . . of a fashionable creature who flits in and out of fairy tales and historical epochs . . Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary’s dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated e-book edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind e-book.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 0701204036

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The Letters of Virginia Woolf: The flight of the mind, 1888-1912 by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : PSU:000031205542

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The Letters of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf Pdf

Author : Suzanne Raitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015029246355

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Vita and Virginia by Suzanne Raitt Pdf

'When I finished your book, I cried aloud "Phew!" And Phew meant that I wish I had written it. It seems to me remarkable that someone who never knew Vita and Virginia can understand them so much better than me, who knew both well. And I think of you spending all those years writing,researching, contemplating, finding so much that I have never read, never imagined, and coming up with a book that is a marvel of condensation and commitment.' Nigel NicolsonWhen Virginia Woolf first met Vita Sackville-West at Clive Bell's house in 1922, she wrote that Vita made her feel 'virgin, shy, and schoolgirlish'. But over the next three years Vita charmed away her shyness, and at the end of 1925 made Virginia her lover.Vita and Virginia examines the creative intimacy between the two, interpreting their relationship in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradictions and conflicts of their situation are worked out through the construction of different narratives of femininity, in letters,novels, diaries, and other texts. The book discusses the two women's continual renegotiation of what it means to be female, and suggests that the mutual exchange of different versions of 'womenhood' is crucial to the development of their friendship. Vita and Virginia offers innovative readings ofboth women's fiction, their autobiographical texts, and a long-overdue study of Sackville-West's work as a biographer and a novelist.Emphasizing also wider contexts, Suzanne Raitt assesses the links between homosexual desire and literary innovation, public politics and private lives. Her work provides an invaluable new perspective on the relations between sexuality and feminism in modernism.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473522688

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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships. When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY

Author : Alison Bechdel,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780547333625

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The Best American Comics 2011 by Alison Bechdel,Jessica Abel,Matt Madden Pdf

A collection of the best graphic pieces published in 2010.

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611454987

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Letters to Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir Pdf

In these letters, de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life; they reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and committed.

Author : Mitchell A. Leaska,John Phillips
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780140157963

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Violet to Vita by Mitchell A. Leaska,John Phillips Pdf