Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
2: 544n3
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Dedications | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
published her first collection of short stories, The Heir, dedicated to her mother
: she had been amassing stories for it since June 1921. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 2: 544n3 Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 124, 117 |
Dedications | Vita Sackville-West | She dedicated the volume to her mother
, although they had recently quarrelled: indeed, her mother rejected the poem which VSW
had at first written to convey her dedication, with the result that the dedication... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's parents separated and her mother
left Knole House. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 103 Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura, 1974. 58 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's mother, born Victoria Sackville-West
, was the illegitimate daughter of Lionel Sackville-West (later the second Lord Sackville)
and Pepita (Josefa Durán)
, a Spanish dancer. This unmarried couple lived under assumed names in... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Enid Bagnold | According to her biographer Anne Sebba
, the match was engineered by Lady Sackville
, Vita Sackville-West
's mother. Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 68 Sebba, Anne. Enid Bagnold: The Authorized Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. 76 |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | |
Literary responses | Vita Sackville-West | George Moore
and Hugh Walpole
both praised Heritage before publication; Walpole discerned the influence of Joseph Conrad
and Emily Brontë
.Again VSW
's mother
weighed in as self-appointed publicist, and her husband
envisaged for her... |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | She dedicated this book to her mother
. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 251 |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Orlando set a new level in VW
's public reputation. The usual polarization of reviews was represented by J. C. Squire
in The Observer calling it a very pleasant trifle that would entertain the drawing-rooms... |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | The novel was written in English and is set in Spain. VT
's biographer Diana Souhami suggests that VT wrote herself into this piece as Cécile, an innocent young wife, Vita Sackville-West
as both... |
Textual Features | Violet Trefusis | The novel details the literary and romantic triangles among writer Anne Lindell (a sketch to some extent inspired by VT
herself), the former lover of aristocrat John Shorne (Sackville-West
), who is having an... |
Textual Production | Vita Sackville-West | The Hogarth Press
published VSW
's Pepita, an account of hergrandmother
the Spanish dancer, and also of her mother
(one of Pepita's children born outside wedlock) and other relations. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 289 Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 6: 175n2 |
Wealth and Poverty | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's mother, Lady Sackville
died, leaving Vita an income of £5,000 a year. Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984. 282-3 |
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