![]() ![]() You would fall quite flat before her charm and personality… Mrs. I simply adore Virginia Woolf, and so would you. Vita reported to her husband - the diplomat Harold Nicolson, also queer - in a letter from December 19, 1922: Four days after their first meeting, Virginia invited Vita to a small dinner party. Their uncommon bond began in December of 1922, when Virginia was forty and her first literary success, Mrs. ![]() Sackville-West’s son, Nigel Nicolson, chronicles their relationship with great reverence and sensitivity in his 1973 book Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson ( public library), drawing on his mother’s letters and diaries to illuminate the enormity of the love the two women shared from the day they first met to the day Vita learned of Virginia’s death - a love that remained every bit as alive even in her moving letter of condolence to Woolf’s husband. ![]() Theirs was a singular love that, like the protagonist of Woolf’s revolutionary novel inspired by Vita, shape-shifted fluidly as the years and decades wore on, morphing now into fervent passion, now into deep and delicate emotional intimacy, now into the most steadfast of friendships. Four years after the end of her turbulent decade-long romance with Violet Trefusis, the English poet, novelist, and landscape designer Vita Sackville-West became intensely infatuated with Virginia Woolf, ten years her senior. ![]()
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