Louise A. DeSalvo

Mitchell A. Leaska

After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings of both of these literary icons.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf

Highly acclaimed author and teacher Louise DeSalvo offers the first detailed writing program designed for healing. DeSalvo shows how anyone can use writing as a way to overcome the emotional and physical wounds that arn an inevitable part of life. She culls journals, diaries, letters, and works of dozens of famouns writers and students of the craft to illustrate how people "change physically and psychologically when they work on projects that grow from a deep, authentic place." With insight and with, she illuminates how the writing process has transformed authors such as Virginia Woolf, Henry Miller, Audre Lorde, and Isabel Allende. WRITING AS A WAY OF HEALING gives valuable advice and practical techniques to guide and inpsire both experienced and beginning writers.

How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives

Writing as a Way of Healing

Virginia Woolf

Victoria Sackville-West

Mitchell Alexander Leaska

This beautiful collection of correspondence reconstructs the lesbian romance between two literary greats, featuring five hundred letters spanning twenty years.

The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf

 The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work

Vita Sackville-West

The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on Her Life and Work

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Grippingabout how 'a working-class Italian American girl' became a critic and writer.--Kirkus Reviews

A Memoir

Vertigo

Drawing from letters, diaries, memoirs, and novels, Virginia Woolf's subjection to sexual abuse from the age of six into her young adulthood is chronicled, and the effect of that trauma on her personal life and her work is explored

For acclaimed memoirist and biographer Louise DeSalvo, who was diagnosed several years ago with asthma, any moment can become a terrifying struggle for air. Here, she applies her searching mind and scholarship to untangle the connections between physical illness, childhood trauma, and the creative mind.

An Asthma Journal

Breathless

A stunning collection of one writer's beginnings. DeSalvo reframes and revises memoiristic essays that were the seeds of longer collections, to reveal her true power as a memoirist: the ability to dig ever deeper for personal and political truths that illuminate what it means to be a woman, a child of Italian immigrants, a writer, and a scholar.

A Memoir in Essays

The House of Early Sorrows

A Novel in the Making

Virginia Woolf's First Voyage

Kathleen Walsh D'Arcy

Katherine Hogan

A collection of short stories by Irish authors such as Clare Boylan, Fiona Barr, Rita Kelly, Emma Cooke, and Maeve Binchy

Short Fiction by Irish Women Writers

Twenty-seven stories portray life in modern Ireland

Contemporary Stories by Irish Women Writers

Territories of the Voice

"Chasing Ghosts" describes how the daughter of a World War II veteran comes to understand her emotionally wounded father through his stories about his childhood, naval service in the late 1930s, and wartime experiences, and through the research she undertakes to understand her father's life in the context of history.

Louise A. DeSalvo

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