The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

Uncorrected Proof. Royal 8vo., 475 pp., [1, blank], 8 pp. b/w illus. Printed orange wraps. Edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska. Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska.

Light edgewear and creasing, else Fine.

Edited collection of the nearly two-decades long correspondence between two literary giants of the 20th century, primarily preserved in the Henry W. & Albert A. Berg Collection, at the New York Public Library, during which some 500 letters were exchanged. The central character of Woolf's novel Orlando (1928) is said to have been based on Sackville-West.

"[A]n intimate, exhilarating read, and a delightful example of not only romance, but of women's lives, and of the enduring literary legacy of a formidable, talented pair." –Becca Hamilton, Queer Lit

[Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme C.7]