Desiring Women : : The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West / / Karyn Z. Sproles.

On 23 September 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote to Vita Sackville-West: 'if you'll make me up, I'll make you.' In Desiring Women, Karyn Sproles argues that the two writers in fact 'made' each other. Woolf and Sackville-West produced some of the most vibrant and acclaimed wor...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2006
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (262 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Desiring Women
  • 2. Forbidden Knowledge: Vita Sackville-West's Secret Fruit
  • 3. Making Use of the Fruit: Vita Sackville-West's Influence on Virginia Woolf
  • 4. Orlando: A Biography of Desire
  • 5. Genre Instability and Orlando: Biography as a Feminist Practice
  • 6. Making up Women: Revolutions in Biography
  • 7. Love Letters and Feminine Sexuality
  • 8. Subverted Subjects
  • Appendix A: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West' s Relationship
  • Appendix B: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf's and Vita Sackville-West's Publications, 1922-9
  • Appendix C: A Selected Chronological Bibliography of Virginia Woolf and Sexuality, 1972-99
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index