Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

by Suzanne Raitt

Book Overview

This book examines the creative intimacy between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradictions and conflicts of their situation are worked out through the construction of different narratives of femininity, in letters, novels, diaries, and other texts. Vita and Virginia looks at the two women's continual renegotiation of what it means...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198122772
• ISBN13: 9780198122777
• Release Date: April 1993
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"