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   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   I've been reading Virginia Woolf's "A writer's diary", and got curious about   
   why it never mentioned Roy Campbell, who had at one point been associated with   
   the Bloomsbury group, and so got out Joseph Pearce's biography of Roy Campbell   
   to refresh my memory, and found I had almost completely forgotten the tangled   
   web of relationships -- that Roy Campbell's wife Mary was in love with Vita   
   Nicholson (nee Sackville-West) and that the Campbells had gone to live in a   
   cottage on the Sackville-West estate.   
      
   But Virginia Woolf was also in love with Vita, and had written her "Orlando"   
   in a fit of jealousy over Vita's relationship with Mary Campbell. None of that   
   comes out in the (edited) version of the diary. And when he found out about   
   the affair, on 6 November 1927, Roy Campbell went off by train to London, to   
   drown his sorrows in drink. He met C.S. Lewis in a pub, and drinking with him,   
   told him all about it (Pearce 2001:90), and when Lewis remarked "Fancy being   
   cuckolded by a woman" Campbell rushed back to Kent in a rage, and thereafter   
   came to despise the Bloomsbury group, and drew closer to Evelyn Waugh and D.B.   
   Wyndham Lewis, and told Lytton Strachey, who advocated detachment, "Strachey,   
   you are about as detached, morally, physically and intellectually as the   
   animal you most resemble". "What is that?" asked Strachey. "A tapeworm,"   
   replied Campbell (Pearce 2001:95).   
      
      
      
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