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The younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, Nigel Nicolson grew up in a world that combined Bloomsbury with Knole, Eton with Sissinghurst, Oxford with uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides. He was Virginia Woolf's eleven-year-old companion while she was writing Orlando, her fantasy about his mother.
Nigel Nicolson is the author of Portrait of a Marriage, a biography of his parents, Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, and of Long Life, his own memoirs.He has also written books on politics and the arts and the Whitbread Prize-winning biography Mary Curzon.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Nigel Nicolson. 3.78. 909 ratings80 reviews. Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so doing, he paints an astonishing portrait of one of the most remarkable women in history.
1 de nov. de 2007 · The son of Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson tells his own story of soldiering, publishing, politics and authorship. Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the unconventional parents, MP Harold Nicolson and his bisexual wife, the author Vita Sackville-West.
Nigel Nicolson. Nigel Nicolson, OBE, ( Londen, 19 januari 1917 - Sissinghurst Castle, 23 september 2004) was een Brits schrijver, uitgever en politicus . Hij was de jongste zoon van Harold Nicolson en Vita Sackville-West. Nicolson groeide op in Kent, eerst op Long Barn, een zeventiende-eeuws landhuis, nabij Knole, het landgoed van zijn ...
1 de mai. de 2024 · Nigel Nicolson (nasceu em Londres em 19 de janeiro de 1917 – faleceu em 23 de setembro de 2004, no Jardim do Castelo de Sissinghurst, Reino Unido), foi biógrafo, editor e herdeiro do grupo Bloomsbury, cuja obra mais conhecida, “Retrato de um Casamento”, um relato íntimo e controverso do relacionamento aberto de seus pais bissexuais, na ...
11 de ago. de 1997 · Nigel Nicolson shares a vivid memoir of a young boy who became a companion to Virginia Woolf, went on to first admire and then fight Mussolini, founded a controversial publishing firm, served as a Tory in Britain's Parliament, and finally returned to his literary roots. 15,000 first printing. Genres Biography. 294 pages, Hardcover.
