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Movie Screening - "Vita and Virginia" by Chanya Button

  Hello Learners, Here is a blog based on Virginia Woolf’s life, an incident that turns out to be a novel of hers “Orlando: A Biography” , an understanding of Sex/Gender/Orientation, and a movie based on Virginia Woolf and a female lover. “Vita & Virginia” Starring Elizabeth Debicki as Woolf and Gemma Arterton as Sackville-West, the film from director Chanya Button is set against the backdrop of bohemian high society in 1920s London with a host of characters based on real-life people. It includes lines lifted straight from the literary duo’s love letters. Although both were married to men, the two women penned hundreds of poetic letters to each other, and their relationship would inspire one of Woolf’s most celebrated works, the 1928 novel Orlando. Here’s the true story behind Vita & Virginia, Woolf, and Sackville-West’s passionate relationship, and the great literary work it inspired. The movie is available on Amazon Prime. Here is a summary of the novel “Orlando: