Vita : the life of Vita Sackville-West /
Vita Sackville-West - the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, cre...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Tauris Parke Paperbacks,
2018.
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| Edition: | New paperback edition. |
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| Summary: | Vita Sackville-West - the most famous member of the Bloomsbury Group - was a vital, gifted and complex woman. A dedicated writer, she made her mark as poet, novelist, biographer, travel writer, journalist and broadcaster. She was also one of the most influential English gardeners of the century, creating with her husband the famous gardens at Sissinghurst. In her Whitbread Prize-winning biography, Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs. Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book. |
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| Item Description: | "First published in Great Britain by George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited 1983. Text used for this edition published in Penguin Books 1984"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xi, 430 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1788312430 9781788312431 |