Status Updates From Love Letters

“The Americans have unequalled genius for making everything hideous.”

and the gag was heard across the land

“I told Nessa the story of our passion, in the chemist’s shop the other day. ‘But do you really like going to bed with women?’ she said, taking her change. ‘And how d’you do it?’ And so she bought her pills to take abroad, talking loudly as a parrot.”

god virginia woolf is a hoot

just did something very very stupid and read the last page of the book (IM SENSITIVE and needed to know how to prepare!) and learnt that the last letter here is one sent by vita to her husband, informing him of virginia’s suicide 😭😭😭 i had naively hoped that maybe they wouldn’t include that bit.. i might be the saddest girl on goodreads today

vita’s reassurances to her husband sound like “my darling, i assure you that virginia is no more than a friend and my heart belongs to none other than you, my own. you needn’t worry for it is you i love and what i feel for virginia is no more than the most intense passion i have ever felt in my life. i love her more than i shall ever love you. but she is just a friend. by the way, we slept together”

“Virginia’s Diary

30 June

This is the last day of June and finds me in black despair because Clive laughed at my new hat, Vita pities me, and I sank into the depths of gloom.”

me when people don’t get my outfit choices