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The letters of vita sackvillewest and virginia woolf, edited by louise desalvo and mitchell leaska cleis press, 2001 melymbrosia by virginia woolf, edited by louise desalvo cleis press, 2002 the milk of almonds. Louise desalvo s most popular book is tropic of cancer. Damn the woman, she has put her finger on it, vita wrote to her husband. The two began an affair in the midtwenties that inspired woolfs novel orlando. The book also offers readings of both womens autobiographical texts, and a longoverdue study of vita sackvillewests work as a biographer and a novelist. Louise desalvo obituary montclair, nj the starledger. On october 11, 1928 the day orlando published vita received a lavish package, containing a pristine copy of the book and virginias original manuscript, custombound for vita in niger leather, her initials engraved on the spine.
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