Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Knole and the creation of Sissinghurst: “a green thought in a green shade”
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando, Knole and the creation of Sissinghurst: “a green thought in a green shade”
Author(s): Francesca OrestanoSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: Virginia Woolf; Vita Sackville-West; the art of fiction and the art of gardening; Orlando and Sissinghurst as texts related; albeit in different ways; to the palimpsest of Knole.
Summary/Abstract: Behind Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928) and behind Vita’s creation of her garden at Sissinghurst, since 1930, there is the attempt at re-creating Knole, the ancestral country house of the Sackvilles. Knole is the great text encoded in the national heritage of England, and both Vita and Virginia, albeit for different reasons and with different tools, intend to rewrite it and recreate it into new texts, namely biography and the garden.
Journal: Cultural Perspectives - Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 38-62
- Page Count: 25
- Language: English
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