Vita : The Life of Vita Sackville-West

Glendinning, Victoria

Tauris Parke（2022/09発売）

Tauris Parke（2022/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 448 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780755650439
• DDC分類 828.91209

Full Description

The Whitbread Prize-winning biography of Vita Sackville-West.

Vita Sackville-West 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.

Glendinning documents Vita's extraordinary life, focusing on her relationships with Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, her husband Harold Nicolson, and her two sons together with her unpublicised love affairs.

Vita was determined to be more than just a married woman and mother; her passionate, secretive character, and the strains, mistakes and achievements of her remarkable life makes this an absorbing and disturbing book.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction to the New Edition
Acknowledgements
Family Tree of Sackvilles and Nicolsons

Prologue
Part I: Knole 1892-1913
Part II: Change and Challenge 1913-21
Part III: Explorations 1921-30
Part IV: Sissinghurst 1930-45
Part V: The Enclave and the Tower 1945-62

Notes and Sources
Books by V. Sackville-West
Index