Vita og Virginia

 

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 On this day in 1922, the writer Virginia Woolf first met author and aristocrat, Vita Sackville-West...

🍽️ They were introduced at a dinner party hosted by Virginia's brother-in-law, the writer and art theorist, Clive Bell. In her diary the following morning, Virginia wrote...

'I am too muzzy headed to make out anything. This is partly the result of dining to meet the lovely gifted aristocratic Sackville-West last night at Clive's. Not much to my severer taste - florid, moustached, parakeet coloured, with all the supple ease of aristocracy, but not the wit of the artist.'

'She writes fifteen pages a day - has finished another book - publishes with Heinemanns - knows everyone. But could I ever know her? I am to dine there on Tuesday. The aristocratic manner is something like an actress's - no false shyness or modesty - makes me feel virgin, shy, and schoolgirlish. Yet after dinner I rapped out opinions. She is a grenadier; hard; handsome; manly; inclined to double chin.'

📖 It's not altogether the most flattering first impression of Vita, but the two writers grew close, became lovers and remained friends until Virginia's death in 1941.

HER er en artikkel i Time Magazine om dette forholdet.