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...afraid of Virginia Woolf' Mainly anyone who's eaten in Dunster House lately mid the unique set of props that have turned dinning into a perverse for form of mountain climbing. But anyone who's seen the show might well decide it would be worth eating a few meals standing up to see another play this good...
Here, he is largely concerned with Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury set that assemblage of brains and beauty whose wanton mores were matched only by their wicked tongues. Take for example passing conversations about Vivienne Haigh-Wood, the first wife whom T.S. Eliot left in 1933 after an unhappy marriage of 18 years. "None of the poet's associates appears to have known her well," Quennell observes, noting that Bertrand Russell "alleged once to have seduced her," then told a friend that she was, after all, "not so bad-light, a little vulgar, adventurous, full of life." Aldous Huxley...
Quennell, now 79 years old, is similarly uninhibited in describing Poet Victoria Sackville-West's celebrated affair with Virginia Woolf. The former's appearance, he writes, was "strange almost beyond the reach of adjectives . . . she resembled Lady Chatterley and her lover rolled into one." According to the author, Vita Sackville-West's husband, Harold Nicolson, and Virginia's spouse, Leonard, "observed the affair from the point of view of cautious guardians, determined that [Virginia's] unaccustomed feelings must not disturb [her] mental balance." Woolf's novel Orlando, "the direct result of her emotional adventures...
NONFICTION: The Diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Anne Olivier Bell Qoing to the Dance, Arlene Croce Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson -The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson -U.S.S.R.: The Corrupt Society, Konstantin Simis
...almost unimaginable scope of plot and characters contributes as well leaving the reader dazed and satisfied. Humor social commentary and adventure make an odd mixture, but here they combine into something strange and wonderful a Little Women rewritten by a literary descendant of Mary McCarthy and Virginia Woolf...