“I remember what Mother and Father always told Thoby and me,” the fictionalized Vanessa writes. This was not entirely fortunate for Virginia, nor for Vanessa and their two brothers, Thoby and Adrian. Virginia and Vanessa had both, but Virginia from the beginning was marked as a particular favourite of the gods. He expected from his two daughters not only brilliance, but beauty. Virginia’s father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was a brilliant literary critic - growing up under his shadow was not easy. The object of that revenge is the “sister” of the novel’s title, Virginia Woolf, neé Stephen. Despite these latter interjections the point of view throughout is strongly Vanessa’s - her diary could be called Vanessa’s Revenge. Vanessa and Her Sister is written as an imagined diary kept by Vanessa, interspersed with correspondence between Strachey and his great friend, the British civil servant Leonard Woolf, and also by occasional letters from Virginia. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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