[Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West

Sarah M. Hall smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk
Wed Jun 10 08:49:24 EDT 2015


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.

 
      From: Mark Hussey <mhussey at verizon.net>
 To: "'Shannon, Drew'" <Drew.Shannon at msj.edu>; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu 
 Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2015, 23:06
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From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Shannon, Drew
Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2015 5:43 PM
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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 EnglishMount St. Joseph University5701 Delhi RoadCincinnati, OH 45233 USA(513) 244-4541Drew.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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