Vita & Virginia
Gristwood, Sarah2018
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Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most famous writers, and a leading light of literary modernism and feminism. 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 modelled 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 was also a highly regarded and award-winning novelist before the War, but she is most famous today as the co-creator of the garden at Sissinghurst, one of the most influential and visited gardens in the world. This double biography of two extraordinary women examines their lives together and apart.
Main title:
Vita & Virginia / Sarah Gristwood.
Author:
Gristwood, Sarah, author
Imprint:
London : National Trust, 2018.
Collation:
176 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 26 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781911358381 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
823.912
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
82430