[Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West

[Mark Hussey]

Yes, and as Jay Dickson points out in his review in the 2015 Woolf Studies
Annual, Suzanne Raitt's 1993 Vita and Virginia is also important to read to
supply what Dennison lacks.

 

From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon,
Drew
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:43 PM
To: vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
Subject: [Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West

 

Greetings, all!

 

I have here the new biography of Vita Sackville-West, entitled Behind the
Mask, 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 Portrait of a Marriage -- 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? 

 

Drew Shannon, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of English

Mount St. Joseph University

5701 Delhi Road

Cincinnati, OH 45233 USA

(513) 244-4541

 <mailto:Drew.Shannon at msj.edu> Drew.Shannon at msj.edu 

 

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual." --
Virginia Woolf, Diary, 17 February 1922

 

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