Vita And Harold

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781474610865

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Vita and Harold by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

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 : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226583570

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Portrait of a Marriage by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

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 : Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven
Publisher : Virago
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781405517959

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Vita Sackville-West's Sissinghurst by Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven Pdf

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 : Juliet Nicolson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374715328

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A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson Pdf

A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473522688

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All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

A charming extraordinary early 20th century novel about family relationships. 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. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOANNA LUMLEY

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547193562

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Passenger to Teheran by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Passenger to Teheran" by Vita Sackville-West. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106010502661

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Vita and Harold by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

The fascinating, deeply personal letters of an extraordinary couple reveal the nature of an exceptional marriage spanning fifty turbulent years and involving a celebrated circle of friends. Vita, a poet and novelist, and Harold, a distinguished diplomat, politician and author, enjoyed one of the most remarkable marriages of the century. 16 pages of photographs.

Author : Nigel Nicolson,Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780226682

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Portrait Of A Marriage by Nigel Nicolson,Vita Sackville-West Pdf

The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson. 'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN 'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life' TLS The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel. It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty 'without enquiry or reproach', knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.

Author : Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781473582408

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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia by Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf Pdf

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 : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032305859

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Violet to Vita by Violet Trefusis Pdf

Author : Tim Richardson
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780711261631

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Sissinghurst: The Dream Garden by Tim Richardson Pdf

Step inside the world's most famous garden and understand the strength of its attraction in this beautiful and fascinating study. Since is was bought and transformed by writer Vita Sackville West and diplomat Harold Nicholson in the 1930s, this garden has captured imaginations with its unique and intricate design. This unforgettable garden of rooms is influential today for its design, its exuberant planting, and its effect on visitors as a complete garden experience. Author Tim Richardson explores its power and its magic, explaining the nuances of its evolution and shows how we can all enjoy it today. Beautiful photographs transport you to the National Trust property, showcasing it in all its brilliance.

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Putnam Adult
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0399139095

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Vita and Harold by Nigel Nicolson Pdf

Author : Harold Nicolson
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399625227

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The Harold Nicolson Diaries by Harold Nicolson Pdf

One of the great 20th century political diaries 'Brilliant, riveting stuff' TRIBUNE 'One stops to marvel at the achievement. Honesty, decency, modesty, magnanimity, are stamped on every page, as evident as the wit' EVENING STANDARD 'A tremendous read' SPECTATOR Harold Nicolson was one of the three great political diarists of the 20th century (along with Chips Channon and Alan Clark). Nicolson was an MP (Conservative, 1935-45, who also flirted with Labour after WWII). He had previously been in the Foreign Office and attended the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and material from this period is included in this new edition for the first time. Nicolson never achieved high office, but rarely a day went by when he didn't record what was going on at Westminster. He socialised widely, was married to the poet and author Vita Sackville-West, and together they created the famous garden at Sissinghurst. Both were bi-sexuals and had affairs outside their marriage. This new edition also draws on diary entries and letters previously considered too sensitive for inclusion. The diversity of Harold Nicolson's interests and the irony in his writing make his diary a highly entertaining record of his life and times, as well as a document of great historical value.

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250033956

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Behind the Mask by Matthew Dennison Pdf

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 : Victoria Sackville-West,Harold Nicolson,Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 0297811827

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Vita and Harold by Victoria Sackville-West,Harold Nicolson,Nigel Nicolson Pdf

Brevveksling melem ægtefællerne forfatterinden Vita Sackville-West og diplomaten Harold Nicolson, udgivet af parrets yngste søn