![]() ![]() In terms of what the role is, I think it’s great if teaches you something, but it’s primarily meant to bring characters and a time and a period alive in the way that all fiction is. “I’m so much more interested in a story when I know it’s got some sort of foothold in the past. While Vanessa and Her Sister is inspired by intensive research, and based on real people, it’s fictive at the core. Parmar is the author of one prior historical novel, Exit the Actress, about an ingénue who becomes a theater star (and Charles II’s mistress), and a dissertation on the history of women playing men’s roles in the theater, 1660-1900. ![]() It was written in 1905, and it felt like an email a friend had just sent.” Maybe leave the country for a year, play a little harder to get’-it’s an incredible letter. Could you go away? You’re a little too available. ‘No, I can’ t marry you, I don't know if I’m ever going to be able to. “I’ve always loved people’s correspondence, primary documents, and I came across this letter she’d written to Clive Bell, when he asked to marry her. “Vanessa was somebody that I just fell in love with,” says Parmar. But Priya Parmar’s warm, winning historical novel, Vanessa and Her Sister, highlights the injustice of reducing her to that role. Yes, Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf’s sister. ![]()
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