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

Woolf, Leonard; Parsons, Trekkie Ritchie

ISBN 10: 0701169273 / ISBN 13: 9780701169275

Published by Chatto & Windus, 2001

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A very good copy of this first edition with a near fine unclipped jacket. Light spotting to text block edge. Otherwise internally in 'fine' condition with pages free from marks or inscriptions. Please see images for details and feel free to request further information.

Synopsis: To know you and love you has been the best thing in life, Leonard Woolf wrote to Trekkie Parsons in 1942. Trekkie, a painter and book illustrator, was married to the publisher Ian Parsons who was away at war. Leonard was 61, Trekkie 39. They first got to know each other a few months after Virginia Woolf s suicide. When Ian came back from the war, they became even closer. Trekkie, a feisty feminist, had never wanted a husband and now, it seemed, she had two, spending her weekends with Ian and weekdays with Leonard, and telling no one of their arrangement. That is how they lived for twenty-five years. When she and Leonard were not together they wrote; apart from a handful of letters, no one has read their correspondence which Trekkie had sealed until after her death. These remarkable letters tell the story of their unusual relationship.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Letters: Leonard Woolf & Trekkie Ritchie Parsons 1941-1968
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0701169273
• ISBN 13: 9780701169275
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Dimensions: 16.03W x 24.13H x 2.85D centimeters 16.03 centimeters width by 24.13 centimeters height by 2.85 centimeters depth
• Weight: 635 grams
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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.