WOOLF, Virginia.

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The Waves. First edition, second impression, from the library of Roger Senhouse, a Bloomsbury Group member who was the last lover of Lytton Strachey. Senhouse's thoughtful, pencilled inscription on the front free endpaper is dated October 1931, the same month as the first and second impressions.Senhouse's inscription reads: "I prefer this 2nd Imp as proof that V.W. is at last recognised by the buying, of now culture-snob & not culture conscious merely, crowd. Is it 2 yrs or more since she began it? and with what physical pains & ectasies." In a letter to Vita Sackville-West of 8 March 1927, Woolf wrote that there had been "no parties, except one, which Lytton gave to seduce me into liking a pink boy of his - a new pink boy - called Roger Senhouse. I got slightly tipsy and chattered (at the Ivy): came home and chattered. The pink boy said he must apologise for being so dull" (Letters III, p. 343).Educated at Eton and Oxford, Senhouse (1899-1970) was the co-owner of Secker & Warburg during the period it published George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm. Senhouse also translated French works by writers such as Colette and Simone de Beauvoir.

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