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23 de out. de 2020 · Metadata Snippet: This essay by Judith W. Page focuses on Vita Sackville-West’s novel, All Passion Spent, published by the Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press in 1931 and reissued by Virago in 1983. The novel should be better known than it is. At a time when old age seems more denigrated than celebrated, especially in women, All Passion Spent provides a compelling narrative of the ...
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 ...
13 de ago. de 2020 · All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West, a 1931 novel, was one of this British author’s most popular works. Its major theme is that of gaining control over one’s own life, and it also addresses the constrictions of class and gender. We meet Lady Slane, who has lived her adult life as the dutiful wife of a powerful politician and a ...
Books. All Passion Spent. Vita Sackville-West. Carroll & Graf, 2002 - Fiction - 304 pages. Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel. Having surrendered seven decades of her life to the ...
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 ...
Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.
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