Photo of novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl in a black hat and belted check coat.
Text of ET’s letter to VW Dear Miss Virginia Woolf, May I tell you how grateful I am to you for The Waves. I have been reading your work since I was at school and it has always helped me to have an un-muddled attitude to life, to see the vividness and importance of every minute, the significance of every action. The Waves was a tremendous adventure. I have just read it a second time. So rarely, in prose, is anyone so keenly appreciative of individual words. It is like a symphony. Suddenly the English language is translated into fluid music, like Greek.
A disconcerting photo of the novelist Elizabeth Taylor as a little girl and her letter to Virginia Woolf about The Waves (1932). Just finished #MrsPalfrey and god how sad it is. Have also been dipping into the biography of Taylor which is really rubbing me up the wrong way.
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