A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their
friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world's most
famous writers - a leading light of literary modernism and feminism -
and a British icon. 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
modeled 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 & Virginia is the
extraordinary account of the work, friendship and love affair of two
prolific novelists, who came to redefine conventions of femininity,
sexuality, art and politics for the modern world. The cultural legacies
of these formidable women, enduring icons of sexual equality and female
emancipation, proliferate around us today - in fashion and television,
film and literature. In this scrupulously researched examination of the
pair's long friendship, the National Trust draws on their poetry and
treasured correspondence to tell the story of this thoroughly modern
affair.Both novelists have become closely associated with the National
Trust. Vita is most famous today as the co-creator of Sissinghurst, one
of the most influential and visited gardens in the world, while Monk's
House, Virginia's retreat and inspiration, was a celebrated haunt of the
Bloomsbury Group, that influential set of artists, thinkers and writers
who lived in squares and loved in triangles.
