Portrait Of A Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson
Jul 2013 · Hachette UK
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The fascinating story of an unconventional, bisexual and powerfully loving relationship and a unique portrait of gender and feminism - with a new introduction from Juliet Nicolson.
'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN
'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES
'One of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life' TLS
The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel.
It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty 'without enquiry or reproach', knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.
'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN
'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES
'One of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life' TLS
The marriage was that between the two writers, Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and the portrait is drawn partly by Vita herself in an autobiography which she left behind at her death in 1962 and partly by her son, Nigel.
It was one of the happiest and strangest marriages there has ever been. Both Vita and Harold were always in love with other people and each gave the other full liberty 'without enquiry or reproach', knowing that their love for each other would be unaffected and even strengthened by the crises which it survived. This account of their love story is now a modern classic.
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Natasha Gonzalez
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December 21, 2020
Decades ago watched a series on Vita Sackville-West and her relationship with Violet Trefusis(?). I remember Janet McTeer played Vita. Somewhere in the many shelves, this book is located. An extraordinary woman, living and loving as she chooses at a time women became involved with the arts and didn't have to hide, having an intellect and refusing to be confined to a conventional female life of constantly being pregnant and hiding her intelligence and sexuality.
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Nigel Nicolson (Author)
Nigel Nicolson, the younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, was a publisher, a Member of Parliament, an editor (including six volumes of Virginia Woolf's letters and three of his father's diaries) and the author of many books on history, politics, architecture and literature. He lived at the family home, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust, until his death in 2004.
Nigel Nicolson, the younger son of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West, was a publisher, a Member of Parliament, an editor (including six volumes of Virginia Woolf's letters and three of his father's diaries) and the author of many books on history, politics, architecture and literature. He lived at the family home, Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, now a property of the National Trust, until his death in 2004.
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