The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolfe

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer and one of the most influential modernist authors of the twentieth century. Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in London, she pioneered stream-of-consciousness narration in novels including Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, and wrote the landmark feminist essay A Room of One's Own. A central figure of the Bloomsbury Group, she co-founded the Hogarth Press with her husband, Leonard Woolf, in 1917. Woolf struggled with recurring mental illn...

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, The Hon Lady Nicolson, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and poet. Her long narrative poem, The Land, won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it again, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems. She helped create her own gardens in Sissinghurst, Kent, which provide the backdrop to Sissinghurst Castle. She was famous for her exuberant aristocratic life, her strong marriage, and her passionate affairs with women, suc...