Vita Sackville West

Author : Vita Sackville-West,Virginia Woolf
Publisher : Random House
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452170046

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A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

“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 : Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska
Publisher : Cleis Press Inc
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-01-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1573441961

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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Louise A. DeSalvo,Mitchell A. Leaska Pdf

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 : Vita Sackville-West,Sarah Raven
Publisher : Virago Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1844088960

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

A lavish hardback celebrating one of Britain's best-loved gardens.

Author : Violet Trefusis
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015032305859

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Violet to Vita by Violet Trefusis Pdf

Author : Matthew Dennison
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-18
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1499589964

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Vita Sackville-West, Collection by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. Sackville-West's science-fantasy Grand Canyon (1942) is a "cautionary tale" (as she termed it) about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States. The book takes an unsuspected twist, however, in that makes it something more than a typical invasion yarn. In this book: Andrew Marvell, 1939 Grand Canyon, 1942 Country Notes in Wartime, 1940 Country Notes, 1940 The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice, 1919 Poems of West & East, 1917 The Land, 1926

Author : Nigel Nicolson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Sarah Gristwood
Publisher : National Trust
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911358657

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Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood Pdf

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 : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Country life
ISBN : UOM:39015002753146

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The Land by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Random House
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473552944

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Family History by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

Evelyn, aged thirty-nine, is an attractive widow living an irreproachable life. Then she meets Miles, fifteen years her junior, and falls passionately in love. But both lovers have strong personalities and passion does not equal happiness. Evelyn, deeply jealous and conventional is shocked at her lover's casual ways and his insistence on working all day. Miles’s love for Evelyn is real but he cannot devote himself wholly to her whims. Vita Sackville-West collides attitudes to work, sex and society in the changing world of the early 1930s.

Author : Victoria Sackville-West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035021273

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Country Notes in Wartime by Victoria Sackville-West Pdf

Sackville-West's column "Country Notes", observations on life in the English countryside, appeared regularly in the New Statesman and Nation. This is a collection of her columns from the early years of the Second World War.