[Vwoolf] New biography of Vita Sackville-West

[Shannon, Drew]

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...

Drew Shannon, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of English
Mount St. Joseph University
5701 Delhi Road
Cincinnati, OH 45233 USA
(513) 244-4541
Drew.Shannon at msj.edu<mailto: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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From: Sarah M. Hall [smhall123 at yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 8:49 AM
To: Mark Hussey; Shannon, Drew; vwoolf at lists.osu.edu
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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.

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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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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
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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 English
Mount St. Joseph University
5701 Delhi Road
Cincinnati, OH 45233 USA
(513) 244-4541
Drew.Shannon at msj.edu<mailto: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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