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<div><font face="tahoma">I have here the new biography of Vita Sackville-West, entitled
<em>Behind the Mask</em>, by Matthew Dennison. I'm bewildered by something: twice on the dust jacket, there's a statement that this is the first biography of Vita in "forty years," since Nigel Nicolson's
<em>Portrait of a Marriage -- </em>once in the jacket description, and once in a blurb from the Daily Express. Math's never been my strong suit, but didn't Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita come out in 1983?
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<div dir="ltr"></font><font face="Tahoma"><font size="5" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><strong>Drew Shannon, Ph.D.</strong></span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Associate Professor of English</span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Mount St. Joseph University</span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">5701 Delhi Road</span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cincinnati, OH 45233 USA</span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">(513) 244-4541</span></font></font></div>
<div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><font size="4" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><a href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu"><font color="#000000">Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</font></a>
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<div><font size="2" face="arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf,
<em>Diary</em>, 17 February 1922</span></font></div>
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