Vita Sackville West

Author : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : National Trust
ISBN 13 : 1911358650
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vita & Virginia written by Sarah Gristwood and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A double biography of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, their friendship and love affair. Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers – a leading light of literary modernism and feminism – and a British icon. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941. The hero of Virginia’s novel Orlando was modeled on Vita and the book has been described as ‘one of the longest and most charming love letters in history’. That’s on top of the more than 500 letters they wrote to each other. Vita & Virginia is the extraordinary account of the work, friendship and love affair of two prolific novelists, who came to redefine conventions of femininity, sexuality, art and politics for the modern world. The cultural legacies of these formidable women, enduring icons of sexual equality and female emancipation, proliferate around us today – in fashion and television, film and literature. In this scrupulously researched examination of the pair's long friendship, the National Trust draws on their poetry and treasured correspondence to tell the story of this thoroughly modern affair. Both novelists have become closely associated with the National Trust. Vita is most famous today as the co-creator of Sissinghurst, one of the most influential and visited gardens in the world, while Monk’s House, Virginia’s retreat and inspiration, was a celebrated haunt of the Bloomsbury Group, that influential set of artists, thinkers and writers who lived in squares and loved in triangles.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1784870552
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Passion Spent written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY When the great statesman Lord Slane dies, everyone assumes his dutiful wife will slowly fade away, the paying guest of each of her six children. But Lady Slane surprises everyone by escaping to a rented house in Hampstead where she revels in her new freedom, revives youthful ambitions and gathers some very unsuitable companions. Irreverent, entertaining and insightful, this is a tale of the unexpected joys of growing older.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 1405517956
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Virago. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer describing her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary archive, revealing Vita's most loved flowers, as well as offering practical advice for gardeners. Often funny and completely accessibly written with colour and originality, it also describes details of the trials and tribulations of crafting a place of beauty and elegance. Sissinghurst has gone on to become one of the most visited and inspirational gardens in the world and this marvellous book, illustrated with drawings and original photographs throughout, shows us how it was created and how gardeners everywhere can use some of the ideas from both Sarah Raven and Vita Sackville-West.

Author : Louise A. DeSalvo
Publisher : Cleis Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781573441964
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf written by Louise A. DeSalvo and published by Cleis Press Inc. This book was released on 2004-01-10 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf began a passionate relationship that lasted until Woolf's death in 1941. Their revealing correspondence leaves no aspect of their lives untouched. This volume, which features over 500 letters spanning 19 years, includes the writings of both of these literary icons.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226583570
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Portrait of a Marriage written by Nigel Nicolson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of her love affair with Violet Keppel Trefusis in 1920 is one of intrigue and bewilderment. In Portrait of a Marriage, Nigel Nicolson combines his mother's vivid memoir of escapade with what he learned from copious family letters and explains the context of this romantic crisis. He also describes how Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson went on to live the rest of their lives in harmonious marriage.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474610862
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vita and Harold written by Nigel Nicolson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'Vita and Harold have become part of our literature' OBSERVER The marriage of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson was one of the most controversial relationships of the 20th century. This selection of letters, many of which have never been published, skilfully woven together by their son, Nigel Nicolson, gives dramatic new insight into their fascinating lives. Set within a framework of their son's highly personal memories, the story of this most extraordinary of marriages comes full circle - from the announcement of their engagement in 1912, through the storm days of Vita's well-known affairs with Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf, during the years of long separation as Harold's profession as a diplomat took him abroad, and culminating in the days leading up to Vita's death in 1962.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452170045
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Note of Explanation written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary story . . . of a fashionable creature who flits in and out of fairy tales and historical epochs . . Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary’s dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated e-book edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind e-book.

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250033950
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Matthew Dennison and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind ‘the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion – a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473582407
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love Letters: Vita and Virginia written by Vita Sackville-West and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into a legendary literary love affair 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you...' At a dinner party in 1922, Virginia Woolf met the renowned author, aristocrat - and sapphist - Vita Sackville-West. Virginia wrote in her diary that she didn't think much of Vita's conversation, but she did think very highly of her legs. It was to be the start of almost twenty years of flirtation, friendship, and literary collaboration. Their correspondence ended only with Virginia's death in 1941. Intimate and playful, these selected letters and diary entries allow us to hear these women's constantly changing feelings for each other in their own words. Eavesdrop on the affair that inspired Virginia to write her most fantastical novel, Orlando, and discover a relationship that - even a hundred years later - feels radical and relatable. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ALISON BECHDEL, AUTHOR OF FUN HOME AND CREATOR OF THE BECHDEL TEST.

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land written by Victoria Sackville-West and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: