The Real Life Orlando – Ep.26

Vita Sackville-West is best known today for her love affair with fellow writer Virginia Woolf. However, in their day, it was Vita who was the more popular and well known writer, and not because of her scandalous affair with Violet Trefusis.

Sources (Used/Consulted/Read Along the Way)

Behind the Mask: The Life of Vita Sackville-West by Matthew Dennison

Mrs. Keppel and her Daughter by Diana Souhami

Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West edited by Mitchell A. Leaska and John Phillips

Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson

Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters w/intro by Alison Bechdel

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