“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia”

The love letters of Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14393/LL63-v38-2022-20

Keywords:

Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West, Alison Bechdel, Epistolary Writing, Love Letters

Abstract

Love Letters: Vita and Virginia was published by Vintage in February 2021 and brings together a collection of life writing manifestations by Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, important literary figures of the 20th century. With an introduction by Alison Bechdel, author of auto/biographical narratives in comics, the volume offers different glimpses into the personalities and masks of these two artists, the socio-historical-cultural context surrounding them, and the details, entanglements, and disentanglements that epistolary writing manages to facilitate.

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Author Biography

  • Lucas Augusto Valente, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

    Bacharel em Letras – Inglês pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

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Published

2022-12-31

How to Cite

“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia”: The love letters of Vita Sackville West and Virginia Woolf. Letras & Letras, Uberlândia, v. 38, p. e3820 | 1–9 :: resenha, 2022. DOI: 10.14393/LL63-v38-2022-20. Disponível em: https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/62910. Acesso em: 6 dec. 2025.

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