Orlando (2008)
Orlando
“It is full of knowing detail about Knole, the Sackvilles’ ancestral home near Sevenoaks where Vita had grown up and from which she was finally exiled when her father died in January 1928, during the writing of Orlando. Part of Woolf’s intention was the re-creation, within the novel, of the home that Vita had lost, and much of the information she used was drawn from Vita’s account of it in Knole. But Woolf had also visited Knole, and had listened attentively to Vita talking about her love for it.... For that reason, these notes also draw on Vita’s expanded fourth edition of Knole (1958) as well as on Charles J. Phillips’s two-volume History of the Sackville Family (1930) (hereafter, Phillips) which also provides a catalogue raisonné of the paintings and drawings in the house at that time. In writing Orlando, Virginia accepted Vita’s view of the Sackvilles that ‘their inter est lay in their being so representative. From generation to generation they might stand, fully equipped, as portraits from English history’ (Knole, p.MoreLess
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