Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. 1. Desiring Women 1
6. 2. Forbidden Knowledge: Vita Sackville-West's Secret Fruit 18
7. 3. Making Use of the Fruit: Vita Sackville-West's Influence on Virginia Woolf 51
8. 4. Orlando: A Biography of Desire 70
9. 5. Genre Instability and Orlando: Biography as a Feminist Practice 87
10. 6. Making up Women: Revolutions in Biography 109
11. 7. Love Letters and Feminine Sexuality 131
12. 8. Subverted Subjects 161
13. Appendix A: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West' s Relationship 171
14. Appendix B: A Chronology of Virginia Woolf's and Vita Sackville-West's Publications, 1922-9 176
15. Appendix C: A Selected Chronological Bibliography of Virginia Woolf and Sexuality, 1972-99 177
16. Notes 183
17. Works Cited 219
18. Index 233