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an old black and white photo of a woman

She is the woman who inspired one of Virginia Woolf’s most popular novels, Orlando: the feminist classic, fictional biography of a timeless, gender-fluid poet who lives for centuries. In her own life she was a prolific writer — the author of 13…

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a living room filled with furniture and bookshelves next to a dog on the floor

Located on the first floor of the castle tower, this room is where Vita did most of her writing at night, after spending her day working in the gardens surrounding the tower. Vita allowed very few people into her "sacrosanct space". The portrait on the easel is of Vita's lover, Violet Trefusis. Vita and Violet eloped to France 3 times from 1918 to 1921 before ending their affair. Both Vita and her husband had homosexual love affairs throughout their long, and apparently contented, marriage…

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