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Vita & Virginia
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This double biography places Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West within the literary and social world that made their relationship possible. Drawing on diaries, letters and published work, Sarah Gristwood follows two very different writers: Woolf, the modernist novelist and critic associated with Bloomsbury, and Sackville-West, the aristocratic poet, novelist, traveller and gardener rooted in the history of Knole.
Their affair in the 1920s became a lasting friendship and an important creative exchange. Woolf transformed elements of Vita’s life and ancestry into Orlando, while hundreds of surviving letters record affection, disagreement and mutual influence. The book also considers marriage, sexuality, writing, Sissinghurst and the preservation of both women’s homes, presenting the relationship as part of a wider redefinition of female authorship and queer identity in interwar Britain.
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