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 (1892-1962) was born 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.
They had an unconventional marriage, and troughout her life
Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men
and women. She wrote novels, non-fiction, and poetry, including The
Land (1926), which won the Hawthorden Prize.
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 three internationally acclaimed
graphic memoirs, Fun Home- A Family Tragicomic, Are You My Mother?-
A Comic Drama and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. Fun Home was a
New York Times bestseller, won an Eisner Award and was a finalist
for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best
Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian, was adapted to a broadway
musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted
for cinema. 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
'Genius' Award.
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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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