A Gay Outing
Orlando – The ‘Telling’ Tie of Vita and Virginia

Thursday 31 July
7pm – 11pm • Tickets £16 to include the talk, the screening of the film and a glass of wine.

2008 marks the 80th anniversary of the publication of Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando, described by Nigel Nicolson as “the longest and most charming love letter in literature”. Acclaimed biographer Lyndall Gordon will examine Vita’s amorous relationship with Virginia in which, she suggests, reciprocal imaginative play and “telling” were paramount. She will also look at the ways Vita sees Virginia and how the writer in Woolf identifies Vita in letters and in the novel.

The lecture will be followed by a screening of the feature film Orlando (1992).

In conjunction with Brighton Pride.

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