Vita Sackville West And Virginia Woolf

Their affair ended in 1929.

Vita sackville west and virginia woolf. The letter this line is taken from is often quoted when referencing vita and virginia s relationship. Virginia and vita first met at a dinner party hosted by virginia s brother in law clive bell on december 14 1922. Vita sackville west born on this day in 1892 and virginia woolf exchanged the letters below in january 1926. Though sackville west came from an aristocratic family that was far richer than woolf s own the women bonded over their confined childhoods and emotionally absent parents.

These letters came after their first separation. Original spelling and punctuation have been retained. One need only read their letters to each other collected in the letters of vita sackville west to virginia woolf. The letters of vita sackville west to virginia woolf item preview remove circle share or embed this item.

In 1922 when vita receives an invitation their paths crossed in bloomsbury with virginia. The two began an affair in the midtwenties that inspired woolf s novel orlando. Many of those epistles document the heated period between the mid 1920s when their affair began and 1929 when it ended on amiable terms in a friendship the letters document until woolf s suicide in 1941. After they met in 1922 vita sackville west a british novelist married to foreign diplomat harold nicolson and virginia woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until woolf s death in 1941.

In december 1922 sackville west first met virginia woolf at a dinner party in london. Vita and virginia is a love story of the affair and the friendship between writer virginia woolf elizabeth debicki and aristocrat vita sackville west gemma arterton. Four years after the end of her turbulent decade long romance with violet trefusis the english poet novelist and landscape designer vita sackville west became intensely infatuated with virginia woolf ten years her senior. After virginia woolf met fellow writer vita sackville west in the early 1920s the two women began a romantic affair that lasted for a number of years.

I am reduced to a thing that wants virginia it is incredible how essential to me you have become wrote vita sackville west to the novelist virginia woolf in 1926.