SICKLE SIDE OF THE MOON

By N. Nicolson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0701125985
• ISBN13: 9780701125981
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.

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This collection of letters is edited by Nigel Nicholson. Lytton Strachey died in January 1932. Ottoline Morrell, hostess at Garsington Manor and Bedford Square, had known him, loved him, and was one of the recipients of a number of letters from Virginia Woolf. In this period, 1932 to 1935, more substantive letters were exchanged with Ethel Smyth than with anyone else. During the summer of 1932 Virgina and Leonard spent a month in Greece with Roger Fry and his sister. Mrs. Woolf declined with thanks an offer to write for THE NEW STATESMAN. She wrote to Ottoline Morrell that being in London presented a perpetual round of going out to dinner with company. She advised Ethel Smyth that she dislked scenes. She felt that Bloomsbury as a word stood for very little. Virginia Woolf, we learn, preferred the Brontes to Jane Austen. She thought THE CHERRY ORCHARD could not be acted in English. She published an essay on Turgenev in THE YALE REVIEW. At one point Ottoline Morrell is described as a weeping willow in pearls. The death of Roger Fry was a sad event since he was so much of a friend to everyone. Virginia Woolf thought that the Victorians, Hardy, Dickens, and Trollope, had a sense of an audience and created their characters mainly through dialogue. Good manners and kindness are much in evidence in this collection.