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<div>The error about this being the first biography of Vita in forty years is clearly the publisher's, as Dennison cites both Glendinning and Raitt. That doesn't explain the Daily Express's sloppy mistake...</div>
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<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>
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<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>
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<font color="#000000" size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> Sarah M. Hall [smhall123@yahoo.co.uk]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 10, 2015 8:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Mark Hussey; Shannon, Drew; vwoolf@lists.osu.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West<br>
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<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1433937641958_19709">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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<div class="yiv4627557435MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have here the new biography of Vita Sackville-West, entitled
<em><span>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>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?
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