The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries.
Vita Sackville-West (Author)
Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent, the only
child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold
Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively
before settling at Kent's Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, where she
devoted much of her time to creating its now world-famous garden.
Throughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other
relationships with both men and women, and her unconventional
marriage would later become the subject of a biography written by
her son Nigel Nicolson. Though she produced a substantial body of
work, amongst which are writings on travel and gardening,
Sackville-West is best known for her novels The Edwardians (1930)
and All Passion Spent (1931), and for the pastoral poem The Land
(1926), which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize.
Sackville-West died on 2 June 1962 at her Sissinghurst home, aged
seventy.
Virginia Woolf (Author)
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was born in London. She became a central
figure in The Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of British
writers, artists and thinkers. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard
Woolf, a writer and social reformer. She wrote many works of
literature which are now considered masterpieces, including Mrs
Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, and The Waves.
Alison Bechdel (Introducer)
Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home- A
Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time,
Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, People among others. For
twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to
Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and
otherwise - considered 'one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics
genre.' Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics,
2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment
Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review. In 2014 she was
named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur Foundation
Grant.
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"A deliciously tactile volume of love letters; I've been carrying
them around the house, dipping in and out, and finding new things
each time. As Vita said of Mrs Dalloway, they bewilder, illuminate
and reveal" - Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own
*Nino Strachey, author of Rooms of Their Own*
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