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Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962)

Författare till Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson

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Poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West began writing as a child. Born at elegant Knole Castle, scene of Virginia Woolf's novel Orlando (1928), Sackville-West was educated in that 365-room dwelling. In 1913 she married Harold Nicolson (see Vol. 3), journalist, diplomat, and biographer. Despite visa mer Nicolson's homosexuality and her own lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, this marriage survived. Poems of East and West, her first book, was published in 1917. She remained unknown except by a small group of literary connoisseurs until 1927, when she received the Hawthornden Prize for a second volume of poetry. At this time she lived in London and was part of the Bloomsbury group, which also included Lytton Strachey (see Vol. 3), E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes (see Vol. 3), and Woolf. Sackville-West published many novels and volumes of poetry, biography, and family history, and several books on gardening, as well as book reviews and criticism. All of her writings reflect the same unhurried approach, deep reflection, and brilliantly polished style. Her influence on other writers, especially Woolf, was perhaps greater than her own individual achievement. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are her best-known novels. Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicholson, recounted the close, but unconventional relationship of his parents in the memoir Portrait of a Marriage, published in 1973. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Vita Sackville-West

All lidelse förbi (1931) 1,178 exemplar
The Edwardians (1930) 766 exemplar
Saint Joan of Arc (1937) 445 exemplar
No Signposts in the Sea (1961) 313 exemplar
The Illustrated Garden Book (1986) 253 exemplar
Family History (1932) 239 exemplar
Pepita (1937) 199 exemplar
Passenger to Teheran (1926) 142 exemplar
Knole and the Sackvilles (1922) 124 exemplar
English Country Houses (1941) 119 exemplar
The Eagle and the Dove (1943) 118 exemplar
Utmaning (1923) 114 exemplar
Some Flowers (1937) 112 exemplar
In Your Garden (2000) 106 exemplar
The Heir (1922) 72 exemplar
The Land (1926) 67 exemplar
Heritage (1919) 61 exemplar
A Joy of Gardening (1656) 56 exemplar
The Dark Island (1934) 55 exemplar
The Garden (1946) 46 exemplar
Sök Walter! (1953) 44 exemplar
Virago Omnibus II (1728) — Bidragsgivare — 38 exemplar
In Your Garden Again (1953) 31 exemplar
Berkeley Castle (Great Houses) (1972) 24 exemplar
More for Your Garden (2004) 24 exemplar
Grand Canyon (1942) 21 exemplar
Virago Omnibus III (1936) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
Devil at Westease (1947) 20 exemplar
The Land and the Garden (1644) 16 exemplar
Knole, Kent (1971) 16 exemplar
Another World Than This: An Anthology (1945) — Kompositör — 16 exemplar
The Women's Land Army (1944) 14 exemplar
Country Notes in Wartime (1940) 13 exemplar
Country Notes (1940) 13 exemplar
How does your garden grow? (1935) 11 exemplar
Sissinghurst (1964) 11 exemplar
Even More for Your Garden (2004) 11 exemplar
The Dragon in Shallow Waters (1920) 11 exemplar
Nursery Rhymes (1947) 10 exemplar
Faces: Profiles of Dogs (2019) 10 exemplar
Mein Sommergarten (1998) 9 exemplar
Correspondance 1923-1941 (2010) 9 exemplar
Seducers in Ecuador (1925) 9 exemplar
Solitude: A poem (1938) 8 exemplar
Collected Poems Volume One (1933) 6 exemplar
Poems of West and East (2010) 6 exemplar
King's Daughter 6 exemplar
Mein Frühlingsgarten (1998) 5 exemplar
Death of Noble Godavary (1932) 4 exemplar
Orchard and Vineyard (2021) 3 exemplar
Mein Wintergarten (1998) 2 exemplar
Andrew Marvell (1992) 2 exemplar
The Persian Garden (1989) 1 exemplar
Une Anglaise en Orient (1994) 1 exemplar

Associerade verk

The Norton Book of Women's Lives (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 409 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Bidragsgivare — 236 exemplar
Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers (1993) — Bidragsgivare — 191 exemplar
Love Letters (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 180 exemplar
Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Bidragsgivare — 168 exemplar
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Bidragsgivare — 114 exemplar
The Faber Book of Gardens (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 45 exemplar
The Old Shrub Roses (1955) — Förord, vissa utgåvor35 exemplar
The Legacy of Persia (1953) — Bidragsgivare — 27 exemplar
Portrait of a Marriage [1990 TV mini-series] (2006) — Original book — 25 exemplar
The Gardener's Bedside Reader (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 21 exemplar
Women on Nature (2021) — Bidragsgivare — 20 exemplar
All Passion Spent [1986 TV mini series] (2006) — Original novel — 8 exemplar
Little Innocents: Childhood Reminiscences (1932) — Bidragsgivare — 8 exemplar
The New Decameron, the Third day — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar

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January Read: Vita Sackville West i Virago Modern Classics (januari 2019)

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At 88, Lady Slane is widowed, and feels that for the first time in her life, she can live the life she wants, not the life her parents chose for her, or resulted from her husband's career and choices. Her grown-up children, themselves in their sixties, are appalled, but she makes the arrangements and does it, leading to the company of three eccentric men, and a growing interest in her great-grandchildren, who she didn't use to be interested in at all.
 
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queen_ypolita | 55 andra recensioner | Jan 7, 2024 |
Princess Marie Louise of Schleswig-Holstein (1872 – 1956) was the inspiration behind the creation in the 1920s of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House. She was also its librarian writing to noted authors requesting that they produce a small manuscript to be specially bound, given one of Queen Mary’s miniature bookplates (designed by E. H. Shepard, who illustrated Winnie-the-Pooh) and shelved in the library.

Some authors reproduced extracts from earlier works in miniature while other authors produced an entirely new work often inspired by the exquisite and whimsical concept of the Dolls’ House itself. Vita Sackville-West’s small work A Note of Explanation was of the latter category being new, original, and amusing.

The early readers of these books can have been very few. Now the Royal Collection is occasionally issuing choice selections from the collection either in facsimile or, as in this case, with an entirely new production. This edition has luxury paper, a pretty binding, lovely endpapers and wonderful illustrations by Kate Baylay.

The Dolls’ House is famously empty of dolls. However, in her story Vita Sackville-West gives the Dolls’ House an occupant, a magical sprite who has witnessed many fairy tales; she knew Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, the Princess and her Pea, Jack (of the Beanstalk) and, rather unfortunately, Bluebeard. She found Scheherazade ‘long-winded and a bore’.

The nameless sprite – rather like Goldilocks – tries everything in the Dolls’ House; from grand and pedestrian beds, the lift, and the bathrooms that make Aladdin’s palace look rather poor. But she is a lazy sprite and leaves a trail of disorder behind her perplexing the architect and the Queen herself. The identity of this invisible disruptor, Sackville-West writes teasingly, can only be found in a little book in the library, bringing her tale to its circular conclusion. Now we can all learn of her identity and see just how stylish she was thanks to Kate Baylay’s attractive and ingenious illustrations.

This is the end of a little review of a little book from the library of Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.
… (mer)
 
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Sarahursula | 2 andra recensioner | Dec 27, 2023 |
“Someday I’ll write and tell you all the things you mean to me in my mind. Shall I?”
 
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femmedyke | 2 andra recensioner | Sep 27, 2023 |
Lovely compilation of letters between Virginia and Vita.
 
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Andy5185 | 2 andra recensioner | Jul 9, 2023 |

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Harold Nicolson Author, Composer
Rebecca West Contributor
Molly Keane Contributor
Antonia White Contributor
A.C. Tholema Translator
Nora S. Unwin Decorations
Cees Buddingh' Translator
Juliet Nicolson Introduction
Andrew Davidson Cover artist
Chris Daunt Illustrator
Ken Kirkwood Photographer
Freda Titford Illustrator
Th. A. Knust Translator
K. S. Bennet Cover artist
Graham Rust Illustrator
Alison Bechdel Introduction
Kate Baylay Illustrator
Polly Devlin Introduction
Philippe Jullian Illustrator

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Verk
96
Även av
17
Medlemmar
7,680
Popularitet
#3,170
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
196
ISBN
416
Språk
12
Favoritmärkt
27

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