Orlando: An Edition of the Manuscript
Madeline Moore
Victoria Sackville-West became the one grand passion of Virginia Woolfs life. But politically, as well personally, response to Vita's wealth was complex and often contradictory. Her first reaction Knole House (Vita's ancestral home setting for most Orlando), bears this out: As a & preparation I always feel this, or Ottoline's, any aristocrat's that know, be perfection. waits, nothing happens. ... its [sic] breeding took away with me an impression, carrying her in my eye travelled up lower middle classes, through slums. There is Knole, capable housing all desperate poor Judd Street, only solitary earl kernel.1 Nonetheless, three years later letter dated October 9, 1927, she would write Vita saying, Your excellence subject arises largely from your noble birth. (But whats 400 nobility, same?) opportunity thus given florid descriptive passages great abundance. Also, admit, should like untwine twist again some very odd, incongruous strands you it sprung upon how could revolutionise biography night.2 Shortly after began writing Orlando, Woolf published The New Biography where
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