Publications
Novels of Virginia Woolf: From Beginning to End, by Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1977 accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1985 (448 pp., New York: William Morrow and Co., ISBN-10: 0688039634 & ISBN-13: 9780688039639) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1985 (448 pp., New York: William Morrow and Co., ISBN-10: 0688039634 & ISBN-13: 9780688039639) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
A passionate apprentice : the early journals 1897-1909, by Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1990 (xlv + 444 pp., London: Chatto & Windus, ISBN-10: 0701208457 & ISBN-13: 9780701208455) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Covering the years 1897-1909, these journals complete the autobiographical sequence of Virginia Woolf's diary and letters and provide a picture of the circumstances in which she taught herself her craft. Many of the incidents of these years were to influence the rest of her life.
The Letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, edited by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska, published 12 March 1992 (480 pp., London: Virago Press Ltd., ISBN-10: 1853815055 & ISBN-13: 9781853815058) accessible at: East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:This is a collection of Vita Sackville-West's letters to Virginia Woolf, assembled with extracts from Virginia's replies and a linking narrative. It illuminates each woman's contemporaries, times, travels, their moments of levity, their periods of despair. And it reflects the private voices of two women, as their friendship deepened from formal admiration to become one of the most searingly intense affairs in modern literary history.
Granite and rainbow : the hidden life of Virginia Woolf , by Mitchell A. Leaska, published 1998 (vi + 513 pp., Picador, ISBN-10: 0330354361 & ISBN-13: 9780330354363) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Granite and Rainbow contains new and revealing material on Virginia Woolf's relationships with her parents and the deeper story of how she sought to create harmony out of such profound divisions.