VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)

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VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)
FULLER, Thomas. The Historie of the Holy Warre, [Cambridge:] Thomas Buck, 1651, small 2°, fourth edition, front free endpaper signed and inscribed: "Violet Dickinson, from Sparroy. Feb. 1903," engraved title [bound with --] The Holy State, London: John Redmayne, 1663 [engraved title dated 1648], small 2°, fourth edition, engraved title and portraits (occasional soiling, spotting and dampstaining), later panelled calf (joints split, spine rubbed). [Wing F2439; F2446].

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Violet Dickinson (bookplate)

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Violet Dickinson (1865-?) was the daughter of a Somersetshire squire and grand-daughter of Lord Auckland and a friend of Virginia's sister Stella. After Stella's death in July 1897, Virginia turned to Violet for comfort: "It was a 'romantic friendship', an innocent love. Miss Violet Dickinson was thirty-seven when she befriended the twenty-one year old Virginia ... the first and kindest of the strong women to whom Virginia looked for petting and cherishing ... she found imaginative refuge in women like Violet Dickinson ... who allowed her the kind of imaginative play that excited her affections. With Violet she played the pet: she was Violet's Sparroy (a mix of sparrow and monkey)." [Lyndall Gordon. Virginia Woolf. A Writer's Life. p. 134].