Virginia Woolf’s Beauty
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As rendered by Edith Sitwell:
"Virginia Woolf had a moonlit transparent beauty. She was exquisitely carved, with large thoughtful eyes that held no foreshadowing of that tragic end which was a grief to everyone who had ever known her."
And by Rosamond Lehmann:
"She was extremely beautiful, with an austere intellectual beauty of bone and outline, with large melancholy eyes under carved lids, and the nose and lips, the long narrow cheek of a Gothic madonna. Her voice light, musical, with a throaty note in it, was one of her great charms. She was tall and thin, and her hands were exquisite."
From John Lehmann's Thrown to the Woolves.
