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- catalog abstract "When Virginia Woolf first met Vita Sackville-West at Clive Bell's home in 1922, she wrote that Vita made her feel 'virgin, shy, & schoolgirlish'. But over the next three years Vita charmed away her shyness, and at the end of 1925 made Virginia her lover. Vita and Virginia examines the creative intimacy between the two women, 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. The book discusses the two women's continual renegotiation of what it means to be female, and suggests that the mutual exchange of different versions of womanhood is crucial to the development of their friendship. Vita and Virginia offers innovative readings of both women's fiction, their autobiographical texts, and a long-overdue study of Sackville-West's work as a biographer and novelist. Emphasizing wider contexts, Suzanne Raitt assesses the links between homosexual desire and literary innovation, public politics and private lives. Her work provides an invaluable new perspective on the relations between sexuality and feminism in modernism.".
- catalog contributor b3837834.
- catalog created "1993.".
- catalog date "1993".
- catalog date "1993.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-190) and index.".
- catalog description "When Virginia Woolf first met Vita Sackville-West at Clive Bell's home in 1922, she wrote that Vita made her feel 'virgin, shy, & schoolgirlish'. But over the next three years Vita charmed away her shyness, and at the end of 1925 made Virginia her lover. Vita and Virginia examines the creative intimacy between the two women, 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. The book discusses the two women's continual renegotiation of what it means to be female, and suggests that the mutual exchange of different versions of womanhood is crucial to the development of their friendship. Vita and Virginia offers innovative readings of both women's fiction, their autobiographical texts, and a long-overdue study of Sackville-West's work as a biographer and novelist. Emphasizing wider contexts, Suzanne Raitt assesses the links between homosexual desire and literary innovation, public politics and private lives. Her work provides an invaluable new perspective on the relations between sexuality and feminism in modernism.".
- catalog extent "xv, 195 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Vita and Virginia.".
- catalog identifier "0198112491".
- catalog identifier "0198122772 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Vita and Virginia.".
- catalog issued "1993".
- catalog issued "1993.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Vita and Virginia.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "823/.91209 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Female friendship England.".
- catalog subject "PR6037.A35 Z84 1993".
- catalog subject "Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Sackville-West, V. (Victoria), 1892-1962 Friends and associates.".
- catalog subject "Women and literature England History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Women authors, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 Friends and associates.".
- catalog title "Vita and Virginia : the work and friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf / Suzanne Raitt.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".