Love Letters: Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968

Leonard Woolf; Trekkie Ritchie Parsons

ISBN 10: 0701169273 / ISBN 13: 9780701169275

Published by Random House UK, 2001

About this Item

Faint wear to dust jacket. Book itself is in fine condition without marks, inscriptions or underlining. Not price-clipped. Not a remainder. Not ex-library. s69.

Seller Inventory # EDB01112

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Letters: Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968
• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701169273
• ISBN 13: 9780701169275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine

About this title

Synopsis

Trekkie Ritchie Parsons, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons. When she met and fell in love with Leonard Woolf, rather than splitting with Ian, convinced both men that life would be best if Leonard moved in next door. Trekkie spent the weekends with Ian and the week with Leonard, living this way for 25 years. When Trekkie and Leonard were not together they talked through quick letters, which she then sealed up, and were opened after her death. Linked by excerpts from her diary, the letters shine with details of daily life and tell the story of two contrasting personalities, their love for one another, and their unusual and creative domestic arrangement.

About the Author

Judith Adamson is Professor of English at Dawson College, Montreal, and the author of several books, including The Dangerous Edge, a political biography of Graham Greene. She selected and introduced the essays in Greene’s much acclaimed last book, Reflections.