Behind the mask : the life of Vita Sackville-West / Matthew Dennison.
"Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. In this stunning portrait of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the...
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| Other title: | Life of Vita Sackville-West. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
William Collins,
2014.
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| Summary: | "Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. In this stunning portrait of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita’s extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita’s lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open’ marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita’s literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain."--Goodreads.com. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-348) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0007486960 9780007486960 |