V Sackville-West
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane--a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India--everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the British poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst, showing her to be one of the most visionary horticulturalists of the twentieth-century. With wonderful additions by Sarah Raven, a famous British gardener in her own right who is married to Vita's grandson Adam Nicolson, Sissinghurst draws on this extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
"Poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, distinguished diplomat, politician, and prolific author, enjoyed one of the most remarkable marriages of the century. Chronicled in the best-selling Portrait of a Marriage by their younger son Nigel Nicolson, the relationship between Vita and Harold was unusual and profoundly happy. Charged with remarkable intensity and deep mutual respect, the correspondence between Vita and Harold, selected...
14) Listy miłosne
Author
Publisher
Albatros
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Polish
Description
"Prawdziwy smakołyk dla miłośników literatury i epistolografii miłosnej. Doskonałe uzupełnienie portretu intelektualistki, literatki i ikony feminizmu, Virginii Woolf. Zbiór korespondencji dokumentującej związek dwóch kobiet - pisarek Virginii Woolf i Vity Sackville-West, poprzedzony wstępem Alison Bechdel, amerykańskiej autorki znakomitych powieści graficznych „Fun Home", „Jesteś moją matką?" i „Sekret nadludzkiej siły". Na...