Love Letters: Vita and Virginia

"I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way." In 1922, the relatively unknown writer Virginia Woolf met the popular author, aristocrat—and notorious Sapphist—Vita Sackville-West. Virginia didn’t think much of Vita’s conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. In her diary she wrote: "But could I ever know her?" It was to...

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Stray_Heart29 июня 2025 г.
I will rise to powder. But not to rouge […]

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Stray_Heart29 июня 2025 г.
If so, you’ll have to come – we’ll dine; we’ll haunt the terrace. For my part, I should prefer solitude. For yours, you’d prefer oysters.

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Stray_Heart6 июня 2025 г.
It’s odd how being ill even like this splits one up into several different people.
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