<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19709" dir="ltr">It's particularly odd that Glendinning's book has been 'forgotten' since both this and Dennison use the Strang portrait on the cover. When I first saw Dennison's book, I assumed that it was a reissue of Glendinning's. There are plenty of other pictures, after all. I hope this is not going to become 'the' picture of VSW as Beresford's photo is the one always used for VW; both, of course, dating from before their subjects had written their major works.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19676"><span></span></div><br> <blockquote id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19694" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19700" style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19699" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19698" dir="ltr"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19930" size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19697" size="2" face="Arial"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19696"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19695" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Mark Hussey <mhussey@verizon.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "'Shannon, Drew'" <Drew.Shannon@msj.edu>; vwoolf@lists.osu.edu <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 23:06<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19701" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv4627557435"><style>#yiv4627557435 #yiv4627557435 --
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#yiv4627557435 </style><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19712"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19711" class="yiv4627557435WordSection1"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19710" class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal">Yes, and as Jay Dickson points out in his review in the 2015 <i>Woolf Studies Annual</i>, Suzanne Raitt’s 1993 <i>Vita and Virginia</i> is also important to read to supply what Dennison lacks…</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19948" class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"> </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv4627557435yqt3353152123" id="yiv4627557435yqt26763"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19950"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19949" style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19952" class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">From:</span></b><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19951" style="font-size:10.0pt;"> Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.osu.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Shannon, Drew<br clear="none"><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:43 PM<br clear="none"><b>To:</b> vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br clear="none"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19996">Subject:</b> [Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West</span></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19953" class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19956"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19955"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19954" class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19957" style="font-size:10.0pt;">Greetings, all!</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">I have here the new biography of Vita Sackville-West, entitled <em><span style="">Behind the Mask</span></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><span style="">Portrait of a Marriage -- </span></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? </span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div original_target="mailto:drew.shannon@msj.edu" id="yiv4627557435idSignature57364"><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Drew Shannon, Ph.D.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Associate Professor of English</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Mount St. Joseph University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">5701 Delhi Road</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">Cincinnati, OH 45233 USA</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">(513) 244-4541</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"><a saprocessedanchor="true" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:Drew.Shannon@msj.edu"><span style="color:black;">Drew.Shannon@msj.edu</span></a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div><div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;">"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." -- Virginia Woolf, <em><span style="">Diary</span></em>, 17 February 1922</span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;"> </span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br><div class="yqt3353152123" id="yqt76722">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Vwoolf mailing list<br clear="none"><a original_target="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" saprocessedanchor="true" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu" href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">Vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a><br clear="none"><a original_target="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" saprocessedanchor="true" shape="rect" href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div></body></html>