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Additional volumes of Sackville-West’s correspondence include Dearest Andrew: Letters from V. Sackville-West to Andrew Reiber, 1951–1962 (1979), Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson (1992), and Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West 1910–1921 (1991, edited by Mitchell A. Leaska and John Phillips).
Vita Sackville West and Harold Nicolson, though married to each other, entered into numerous homosexual relationships while still keeping between them an unbreakable bond that lasted for life. It's a story of how a very small section of society, just a century ago, could selfishly take advantage of the indulgence bestowed on them by privileged birth.
- Nigel Nicolson MBE, Vita Sackville-West
10 de jan. de 2004 · Cleis Press, Jan 10, 2004 - Literary Collections - 480 pages. After they met in 1922, Vita Sackville-West, a British novelist married to foreign diplomat Harold Nicolson, 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: daily ...
5 de jun. de 2014 · The surviving letters, beginning in 1910 when Violet was sixteen and Vita eighteen, capture the exultant and anguishing whirlwind of love so passionate yet so utterly quixotic in the context of their era’s bigotry toward same-sex romance. In October of 1910, 16-year-old Violet replies — in French, and with exquisite candor — to a letter ...
West, Victoria Mary [Vita] Sackville-(1892–1962), writer and gardener, was born on 9 March 1892 at Knole near Sevenoaks, Kent, the only child of Lionel Edward Sackville-West (1867–1928), and his wife and first cousin, Victoria Josefa Dolores Catalina Sackville-West (1862–1936), society hostess, the illegitimate daughter of Sir Lionel Sackville Sackville-West, second Baron Sackville (1827 ...
Vita and Harold Victoria Sackville-West,1992 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 ...
Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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.
