Virginia Woolf was convinced that South America was a land in which millions of butterflies flooded the air and wild animals ran loose in the streets. To further fuel the Englishwoman’s imagination, Victoria presented her with a box of butterflies to be hung in her bedroom. It was Virginia who persuaded Victoria to write her Autobiografía, arguing that so few women had written “interesting and truthful” memoirs. Though invited numerous times to visit Argentina, Virginia was never able to make the voyage. Victoria, who dedicated several articles, a conference and a book to the Englishwoman, writes: “the lyricism of Virginia Woolf is as remarkable as her humor; she has crossed into the kingdom of poetry.” The argentine woman edited Woolf’s essays and two of her novels, including Borges’s translation of Orlando. Victoria describes her reaction to the news of Virginia’s unexpected suicide in 1941: “I would have liked to limit myself to writing: To Virginia Woolf… because in searching for a phrase, there was none I could come up with that I could set beside her name.”