Vita Sackville-West, Collection

Vita Sackville-West, Collection

by Vita Sackville-West
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Publication Date: 31/05/2014

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The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.


The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. Sackville-West's science-fantasy Grand Canyon (1942) is a "cautionary tale" (as she termed it) about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States. The book takes an unsuspected twist, however, in that makes it something more than a typical invasion yarn.


In this ebook:


Andrew Marvell, 1939


Grand Canyon, 1942


Country Notes in Wartime, 1940


Country Notes, 1940


The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown – Chelsea Justice, 1919


Poems of West & East, 1917


The Land, 1926


The Garden, 1946


Passenger to Teheran, 1926

ISBN:
1230000243701
1230000243701
Category:
Short stories
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
31-05-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Sur
Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West was born in 1892 at Knole in Kent, the only child of aristocratic parents. In 1913 she married diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons and travelled extensively before settling at Kent’s Sissinghurst Castle in 1930, where she devoted much of her time to creating its now world-famous garden.

Throughout her life Sackville-West had a number of other relationships with both men and women, and her unconventional marriage would later become the subject of a biography written by her son Nigel Nicolson.

Though she produced a substantial body of work, amongst which are writings on travel and gardening, Sackville-West is best known for her novels The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931), and for the pastoral poem The Land (1926), which was awarded the prestigious Hawthornden Prize. Sackville-West died on 2 June 1962 at her Sissinghurst home, aged seventy.

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