![]() WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST. ![]() 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. 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. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Starring Gemma Arterton, Elizabeth Debicki, Isabella Rossellini. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. Written by Button and Eileen Atkins, based on the letters of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. ![]() The two began an affair in the midtwenties that inspired Woolf’s novel Orlando. ![]() I just miss you.Īt a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Vita Sackville-West, born on this day in 1892, and Virginia Woolf exchanged the letters below in January 1926. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. ![]() I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. ![]()
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